The 203-metre hill is the " High Hill" of Russian reports. It is the most lofty eminence after Liaotishan, The first attack by the Japanese was made on the 19th of September and after sanguinary fighting a lodgment was effected at the north-west corner. There the assailants were subjected to a fierce ack, desperate and contin-ended in their retirement, the impossibility of pressing home the assault at that stage having been recognise ed. The Japanese made their attack from three sides, but on one only had partially succeeded, They then resorted to regular siege methods, and on the 28th October the next advice of their operations was published, stating that a certain measure of injury had been inflicted on the place by the siege guns and naval guns, but its defensive capacities had not been' seriously impaired, The present attack began on the 26th November, and on the 28th the besiege succeeded in carrying the enemy's shelter trenches near the top of the height, The last bombardment commenced on the 30th November at dawn and the entire fort was occupied by the Japanese at 8 p.m. At this writing, the enemy was pei sistently attempting to recover the battery, As to the question Russians retiring to Liavtishan, it stated that it would imply the whandes mont of the main batteries as well as the harbour and the town. Major-General Nakamura, who led a forlorn hope on the 26th ult., is wounded in both legs, The Formosan Garrison.
Lieutenant-General Uyeda, late Commander of the Hiroshima Division at the front, and who has been appointed Commander of the Formosan Garrison, vice Lieutenant-General Kurose, left Tokio on Tuesday last for the island. colonel Matsuishi has been appointed chief of his staff. He was until only recontl second on the staff of General Kurok Army, and is reputed to be an able authority on strategy and tactics. Dur.
g the Japan-China war the Colonel ok part in the expedition to the Pes-caderes and served in the Islind for some years. The new military appointments probably may have close connection with the expected arrival of the Baltic Squadron, The southern archipelago of the Japenese Empire may yet play an important part in the present war.
The Recapture of Huaijen.
A Japanese detachment from the vicinity of Kuantien occupied Hu on the 26th November and 1,800 Russian troops were obliged to retreat northward, after removing the telegraph line. From this telegram it appears that Huaijén was retaken by the Russians some time after 12th June, when the Japanese occupation of that place was announced for the first time, The present occupation seems to be the ese recapture of this point. Huai-jen is north of the upper Yalu. In the above engagement, twenty-tive men, including captain, were killed and forty-four wounded.
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