Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1904-10-17
DISASTERS TO RUSSIANS.

| Russian Right Flank Said TO nave
Per Routed--Hand-to-hand on
aiot-Despera' Fighting or hus'
sians-They Capture Eleven Guns
and Gain Dominating Position
Renort that Russians viii Evacuate
Manchuria, but Will Continue the
| War.
st. Petersburg, Oct. Kindergarten
messages from the front state that the
retirement of the force of General Meyen-
dorff on the Russian right flank has been
turned into route. The force suffered
tremendous losses. These dispatches re-
cord one rift in the cloud of the general
defeat They state that the Russian
soldiers at one point charged with bayo-
nets in magnificent form. They cap
tured eleven japanese guns and a ma
chine gun. Col. Hutilof, after desper-
ate fighting, gained a height dominating
the japanese position. He was i'm
mediately given the decoration of St.
Vladimir aud the hill was named Huti-
loft Mountain
Rome. Oct. 1.-THE st. Petersburg
correspondent of the Giornale di Roma
wires that after a consultation with the
Car, General Grippenberg has decided
to mobilize six hundred thousand addi-
tional troops for the war. Manchuria,
the paper asserts, will be abandoned for
the present. A Russian note will proba'
bly, be issued announcing to the powers
the Cars firm intention of continuing
the war.
Berlin, Oct. 17.-Reports received in
the Russian capital today state that 3d.
900 wounded Russian soldiers have ar
rived in Mukden in the past week.
Toxic, Oct. lf.-A report received
from the seat of war this morning has it
that fourteen more Russian guns we're
captured yesterday. Another report re-
ceiyed from the neighborhood of Port
Arthur asserts that the Russian feet in
the harbOr is suffering severely from the
shells of the japanese land batteries
The reports of recent attempts at sorties
by the Russian feet are said to be un-
founded.
St. Petersburg, Oct. IA dispatch
from sakharof, dated Sunday. states
that on Saturday afternoon the Japanese
acted with the greatest energy against
the right flank of the Russian army.
The efforts on the part Of the Cars
forces to advance and take the village Of
LiDihupu were unsuccessful. it adds
'The troops in the centre were not at
tackled except by the enemy's artillery.
The day on the whole was comparatively
quiet, Our losses during the day we're
apparently not heavy"
Toxic, Oct. IA telegram fronl
General Oku's headquarters states that
the Russians yesterday evening retired
from all their positions except on the
extreme right, where they are making
desperate stand west of the railway.
Toxic, Oct 17.-Generals Oku and
Nodzu are cooperating op the west, bar.
RAISING the Russian retreat. Their Oper
atoms appear to he highly successful.
Mukden, Oct. ia Russian gen.
eral who was in command of the Rus
sian divisions and was wounded arrived
in Mukden today. Speaking of the
fighting foe the last fortnight he said
r,The fighting has been of an unheard of
character. The Russians often climb
almost verticIe slopes in the face of a
hail of bullets and are received by the
Japanese bayonets. Whole companies
have been bayonetted to death. This is
the tenth day of such butchery. The
Turkish war was joke compared with
this war"