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Show DOLD ATTACK DY JAPANESE. Capture Trench After Trench, Cut Are Flratly Deaten Dack. A message from Port Arthur do-icrlbos do-icrlbos n J.t;nntio nltnck tho evening of December 32 wllh a light column of f.00 nnd many machine guns on tho nnrtho-n dctonioi. They dnihed along thn railway, carrying Irei-h niter trench, nnd succeeded In roach-Ins roach-Ins tho wotorcenrto bcnoith I'ayul I torn mountiln, when tho Russian ar tillery worked terrlblo exocutlon A flcrco bajonet fight occurred at midnight. A strong Russian fnrca advanced caitward ol Payulioin mountain, threatonlnc; tho rctroit ot the Japnnero, who, after n desporato it'urjg'o, rctl'-ed tn tho north leaving tavertl machlnu guns, 300 rifles and ilghly rlrcncrs. It Is estimated that thov lort COO killed Tho Jnvincro hiltcd noar tho cemetery, ceme-tery, nnd, finding' that both their llankt bid c rned nlllhoworki forming form-ing tto rtitlyirg range of tho main forts, tley cnt-enched on n small hill near ntsv rrouufln, under a tecro onlllidlrz fire, which canted them' . hoivy lot'oo |