The Sauk Centre herald., 1904-10-27
FIGHT IS STOPPED
BY BAD Weather
OPPOSING ARMIES IN MANCHU-
RIA ARE GIVEN A MUCH
NEEDED REST.
Battle Ragged for Ten Days and Was
Worst of War-Losses Enormous
The Victory of the Japs Was
Undecisive.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 20.-There has been
an end, for the time being, of the fight
ing on large scale which began when,
IN October 8, Gen. Kuropatkin announced
to his army that the time had arrived
for an advance against the Japanese.
Heavy rains and consequent bad roads
have made military operations on either
side extremely difficult, If not impossi-
BILE. The interruption, according to ad-
vices received at St. Petersburg, is being
utilized by both the Russian and Jap
anese commanders in making new dispo
sitions of forces, and new objective
points are likely to develop when active
operations are resumed. Practically,
last weeks battle has ended, and it goes
into history as Russian defeat. When
operations are resumed a new battle
will begin.
There is a popular impression here
that affairs at Port Arthur are reach
ing crisis, and it is believed that
the end is only question of days.
No accurate estimate of the losses dur
ing the ten days Of awful fighting can
be made. 1t is, however, not an exag-
geration to say that the total Of killed.
wounded and captured on both sides will
reach $4,000 men.
Storming of Lone Tree Hill.
The storming of the Lone Tree hill
for valor and slaughter will occupy
place by itself in military annals. The
hill is precipitous rocky height, and
of tho hol ;ol
only short time they had thrown up
very strong defenses. The river running
at its foot increased the difficulty of the
task. but it was scaled and carried suc-
cessfully against the unprecedented op-
position of a Japanese division, $4,000
men, with many guns. The Russian
losses were terrible. The fighting on the
crest of the hill was altogether with cold
steel. The Russian officers, with swords
aloft leading the scaling column, were
literally lifted in the air by the japanese
bayonets and the japanese then boyo-
neted the first of the Russian soldiers
who piled in the trenches. All the dead
in the trenches were bayoneted, their
weapons bearing the marks of the dread
full combat.
An Awful Spectacle.
The battlefield of Lone Tree hill pre-
sents the most awful spectacle that can
be conceived. Russian and japanese
dead are mingled in heaps in inextricable
confusion. The ground is strewn with
broken rifles that had been smashed in
hand-to-hand' fighting. Everything
seems to have been utilized as weapons.
The Russian doctors are working
heroically on the slopes of the hill in the
attempt to save those of the wounded
who still survive, but the japanese keep
up a shipping fire and render the work of
relief difficult and dangerous.
Still Shelling Port Arthur.
St. Petersburg, Oct 22.-News from
Port Arthur brought to Chefoo by
junk which left there October 10 says
a fierce bombardment which began Oc-
tober 16 was still progressing without
interruption. Many buildings had been
damaged and ships in the harbor had
also been hit by the shells, but the char
acter and extent of the damages are not
stated. The Japanese main forces are
now posted at Liudziatung. They have
placed guns of large caliber ON Iunjida
mountain. The Russians continue MAX
ing sorties successfully and inf1icting
heavy losses on the besiegers, whose
losses since the commencement of the
siege are said to have been $4,000.