The Archive · 1904

The Four Tired Men on Haggard Horses

AN ANXIOUS NIGHT FOR THE RESIDENTS

From tHe "Cara Times."

Yingkou, 26th July.

The battle of Tashilchiao finished on Sunday evening. At daybreak on Monday morning a shot was fired by the Tapanese into the Russian position, but it elicited no response. No further firing was heard at Newchwang yesterday. The Russian officials here admit that their losses on Saturday exceeded 700, but on Sunday evening they know only that up to four o'clock that day—firing began at dawn—thero were only three casualties on the Russian side. Apparently it was an artillery duel solely ho rifies were fired on either side.

Until ten o'clock on Sunday night the Russians here maintained the belief that the battle had been indecisive. Shortly: after midnight a telegraphic order was received which indicated that the Russian attack had been repulsed, for the evacuation of Yingkon commenced at once. The Russians had everything ready for their immediate departure. By sunrise the only soldiers left in the town were the few men told off as -civil police. By eight o'clock the Russian Settlement had also been evacuated. The stores of forage there were burned and the rendered untenable by a party of pioneers who loft subsequently for Liaoyang by the small steamers on the river.

Russian rule at Newchwang was at an end.

Away in the Russian Settlement mob law at once held sway and looting commenced immediately. Hundreds, if not

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