The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11
Defeat of the Russians
 at Liaoyang.
KURoKpS DASH TO NORTH
Endeavored to Cut Railroad
 in Russians Rear.
U.suecessfuI in His Effort, But the Vic .ory Won By Oyamn Means Con- troI of Manchuria by
 the Japs.

to.--Tfc Japanese yesterday evening discovered that the Russians had evac uated Liaoyang and at II o'clock they sent scouting parties to the southern and western walls of the city. At 8 o'clock the troops of the victorious lrmy quietly entered and occupied Liao- yang. General Kuropatkin's former base and stronghold. &
 This success was achieved after five days of glorious fighting After Gen. eral Kurokishad noted the march of the 10th Russian army corps, which he had driven in the e-Anping road to the plain. on its way to join the Russian center. which General Nodzu had forced in from Kaofengshi. he divided his forces sta- tioned in Anping and Fengwancheng roads. He took care to have a suf1 :. ciently strong force on the Fengwang cheng road on General Nodzu's extreme right. and sent to General Nodzu. who was pushing with the Japanese center army along the Menchiafang and south roads, the brigade from Menchiafeng, three regiments to Chiaofantun and two regiments to the southward. General Kuroki In the meantime waited quietly with two more divisions on the south bank of the Taitse river :. August 31 the artillery under General Nodzu bombarded fercely the three hills at Chiofantung. On the same day. General Oku. in command of the Japanese left army working his way with rife fire and artillery, slowly ad- vanced along the railroad in spite of the Russian opposition from neighbor- ing elevations and fortifcations.
 Kuropatkin Warned.
 The left army thus moved toward shusan. The Russian cavalry was not able to locate the Japanese trenches on this advance. The character of the Japanese advance apparently had served as a warning to General Kuro- patkin to make sure of his retreat and his transport was at once seen moving rapidly out of Liaoyang over the raii- road bridge. '+cs August 80 the Japanese closed Tn on the Russians in their mountain posi- tion at Chiaofantun. Here the guna were so close to each other that 1t was almost possible for the battery conn manders to see each others spectacles. At 10 o'clock on the morning of the B0th. General Kuropatkin's staff nov ed out of Liaochang. At the same time rife fire was heard drawing nearer to the railroad station. The wounded men, of whom none were seen on the 2sth, were trailing along the roads from the south and southwest into Liacyang on the 30th.
 The Russians made use of a field balloon all day long on the 30th and by means of it they got the range of one Japanese battery which they succeeded in putting out of action. They fstled to find either the enemy's batteries or troops later, while the Japanese continued to silence Russian batteries
 Russian Held Their own.
 At o'clock in the afternoon of the s0th the Japanese shelled a Russian battery positiin on a hill within three miles of Liaoyang but shortly after this hor it became apparent that the Russians had begun to hold theeir own. By o'clock in the afternoon the Jap anese shrapnel fire was confined to the position at Chiaofantun, where the Russians were disputing every hiliock with the enemy. The fighting of the 30th came to a close at in the even ing. The Russian casualties for the /29th and 30th totalled moro than 5000 men.
 The Japanese. from low range of hills to the southeast and south of Shushan, began shelling the northern end of the Russian line at Shushan at s:45 o'clock on the morning of the a1st. The artillery fire was preceded and accompanied by infantry rushes over the valley and the lower hills south of the road. They began before dawn and were continued until even ing the Japanese officers urging their worn-out and fainting men with the points of their swords.
 There was very hard fighting at a round topped hill in the Russian limo oopposite the point where the two Japanese armies under Generals Nod zu and Oku came together. The Rus sian position here was protected with wire entanglements and small body of Russian troops absolutely refused to retire. In one trench seven men fought gallantly until they were sur rounded by the Japanese
 Fought With Sand Bags.
 At the end of this sharp fighting the Russians were hurling down sandbags on the enemy. They succeeded in kill ing one Japanese officer and injuring another, after which they surrendered and the hill was occupied by the ene- my.
 In the evening the fighting which had ragged all day centered along the south road where for two hours there was a heavy artillery fire and a vast amount of ammunition was expended. The val ley in front and under the Russian guns during this artillery duel was an inferno of shrieking and moaning shrapnel while beyond the Russian shells burst continuously at the head of the Japanese advance.
 During the day the Russian rifle fire was indescribably furious.
 Tn spite of It's continued ferocitv the rife fire was comparatively ineffec- tuaI the Russians often firing without sight of the enemy. This hail or rifle bullets did not cease before 10 o'clock at night.
 It Is estimated that 10000 Russian shells were thrown into the valley be- yonS the south road. where the only evidence of the presence of the Japa- nese was a Red Cross camp. At night fall General Stakelberg. with the first corps. was still facing General Oku or the left. This Russian corps had lost 5000 men.
 During the night of the 31st the Russians deemed the position of the enemy to be so threatening that they made preparations to fall back. Gen ersl Mistchenko was on Tho extreme Geft of the Russian line with division aannoaed of cavalry. artillery and in-