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Show COST MANY LIVES. Russians Lose Many Men in Dislodging Japs from Position. A Russian correspondent, writing of tho recent fighting In tho vicinity of Bentslaputze, says: "Gen. llcnnen-fcampiVs llcnnen-fcampiVs Cossacks first attacked Kho-dyagoy, Kho-dyagoy, driving the Japanese from tho village with a loss of twelvo killed or wounded. The Japanese then took a stand on a rldgo to the southward, when It seamed It would be impossible impossi-ble to dislodge them. Two of their guns replied persistently to ours, although al-though late in tho afternoon thoy ceased ceas-ed firing, apparently to savo ammunition. ammuni-tion. Tho East Siberian mountain battery bat-tery then camo up and seized a commanding com-manding height, from which it joined tho field battery in shelling the Japanese Japa-nese position anil finally drove them put, but tho fighting cost us 150 men." |