The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-20
WAITING FOR DRY ROADS.
Kuropatkin Expected to Again At
tack the japanese.


tack the japanese.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 10. 1:45 p. m.-
! The flush OF enthusiasm yesterday
evening over the capture of Lone Tree
Hill and Shakhe, the repUlse of the at
| lacks of the japanese left and the
hard drubbing given General Yamada,
I WithSthe capture Of fourteen additional
guns, has given way this morning to a
! calnier and more sober appraisement
of these partial successes There is no
official confirmation of the report that
General Kuropatkin has resumed a
genuine offensive. Rather the general
Japanese offensive has exhausted itself
and that the position of the armies is
now a sort Of deadlock, with the coun-
try rendered so sodden by the heavy
/ rain as to compel a temporary suspen-
SION OF general operations. a complete
veil hides the movements east. but
both kuropatkin's and Sakharof's re-
ports say there were no collisions on
that portion of the battle-ground Mon
day or Tuesday. Field Marshal Oyama
evidently considers that Lone Tree
Hill, from which Kuropatkin could
pivot turning movement against his
left, TO be of vital importance. as both
Sunday and Monday nights. the latter
during terrific storm. made desperate
efforts to re-capture il, accompanying
the assaults with demonstrative at
tacks against other points. But all the
efforts failed. Neither Kuropatkin nor
SakharOff, in the dispatches given out
this morning, send details of the defeat
of Eamada's column and the capture
OF the Japanese guns. Pitiful pictures
are painted by the war correspondents
of the shelterless troops bivouacing in
the cold rain. the roads converted into
quagmires and the streams flooded.
The Bureau Warriors.
The military critics are not yet salts
fed that Oyama is ready TO relinquish
the offensive, expressing the opinion
that he may still try to break through
the Russian center in order TO COM
pei kurOpatkin TO retire from the line
Of the Hun river, unless, as they be-
lieve. he has become convinced that the
superiority Of the Russian numbers
and reserves makes his withdrawal TO
the line Of the Taitse river advisa BILE
General Geisman asserts positively
that up TO yesterday Kuropatkin had
rot brought anything like all the regi-
Wents Of his reserves into action and
the number of fresh units behind which
Ills DdllcItu lICDpS COulQ reform dc-
counts for Kuropatkin's ability 20 re-
sumo the offensive. The line of battle
thus far engaged, counting westward
from the east, General Geisman says,
comprised General Bilderling's Seven
teenth European corps, parts Of Gen
eral SobOleffs Sixth Siberian corps.
portions OF General Slouchevskys
Tenth corps, General Meyendorf's
First European corps, and General
Zasa1itch's Second Siberian corps. The
extreme Russian left, which essayed
a turning movement and was meeting
with success, according TO Russian ac-
counts, until the situation at the right
center compelled its withdrawal, con-
sisted of General Ivanoff's Third CORDS
and General Zaroubaieff's Fourth East
Siberian corps. the Third corps bear
ing the bTunt of the assaults on the
group Of passes of the TUmin range.
Therefore two complete corps, General
Stakelbsrg's First corps and General
Dembowski's Fifth Siberian corps, and
part of five other corps are still I'M
used