The Bourbon news., 1904-09-06
LAO YANG CAPTURED.
The City Occupied by the Japs
Sunday Morning.
Gen. Kuropatkin's Army Retreated to
the Northeast-Gen. Stake!ber9's
Corps, Reported Cut Off, Has
Been Safely Extricated.


character as bearing on the domina.
tion of Manchuria at the close of the
present campaign.
The first came from the press cor
respondent at st. Petersburg, filed
there at 1915 p. NJ, and said that
Gen. Kuropatkin had withdrawn his
whole army to the north bank of the
Taitse river, so as to meet Gen. Ku.
rokis fanking movement. The in
ference drawn from this dispatch was
that Liao Yang had been evacuated.
that city lying ON the left or south
bank of the river.
New York, Sept 3.-The lack of def
mite information from the seat of war
continues up to Saturday morning and
nothing further regarding the situa-
ton at Liao Yang is known beyond
the fact that Kuropatkin has with
drawn the main portion of his forces
to the north of right bank of the
Taitse river and that, according to
the latest advices, the action is still
in progress.
Dispatches from both Russian and
Japanese sources indicate that the
troops on both sides are jaded and
weary after the many days fighting,
and it is pointed out that in conse-
quence temporary lull in the active
struggle would not be surprising.
A dispatch received at Toxic says
that great fires are raging at Lao
Yang, believed to result from Japanese
shelling or from the efforts of the
Russians to destroy their stores prep
aratory to the evacuation of Liao Yang
with the additional hope of injuring
the city as future Japanese base.
The opinion prevails in the Japanese
capital that the Russian casualties in
the recent fighting will reach 80 900,
while the Russian losses of August 81
and September 1 are given in official
reports as 5000 killed or wounded
New York, Sept. 5.-The only di-
rect news from the seat Of war bear
ing Sundays date came by way Of
Toxic is a report from Field Marshal
Oyama, saying that Lao Yang fell
completely into the hands of the Japa-
nese at 9 o'clock that morning; that
the Japanese casualties were believed
to be heavy, and that nothing was
known by the japanese concerning af-
fairs on the right bank of the Taitse
river.
The only comfort for the Russians
at home was the news, conveyed in a
report from Gen. Kuropatkin, dated
Saturday afternoon, that Gen. Stakel-
berg's First Siberian army corps Of
25000 men, reported Saturday as hav-
ing been cut off to the westward of
Liao Yang, had been safely extricated,
and that the corps has succeeded in
joining the main Russian body on the
right bank of the river, but no details
of the escape of Stakelberg are
known. Gen. Kuropatl1in also report
ed that the greater portion of his army
was. at the time of fling the report,
| south of Yentai ften miles northeast
of Liao Yang) and few miles from
the Yantai mines. where fierce fight
ing had been in progress.
1t is indicated that there has been
a cessation of the fierce fighting. Ku-
ropatkin reports that his men were
not being much interefered with by
the Japanese in the neighoorhood of
his army.
It was reported in st. Petersburg
Sunday night that Kuropatkin had az
rived at Tiehling, which is ten miles
north of Yentai, and IS miles south
OF Mukden.
London, Sept. 5.-The Che Foo cor
respondent of the Daily Chronicle, in a
dispatch dated September 8, says that
ii regiments will leave Toxic during
the week to replace the men lost out
side Port Arthur alone The losses
at this point are estimated at $4,000.
The details of the tragic struggle
between Oyama's and Kuropatkin's
forces do not deter British critics from
repeating the vital question, HAS Ku-
ropatkin made good his retreat?"
With all the official news before them,
the experts here seem half inclined to
! believe that the Russian commander
has achieved what was thought to be
the impossible, namely, headed off an
development.
That the Japanese, with superior
numbers and the choice Of time for
aggression, would infiict severe losses,
was taken for granted. The occupation
Of Lao Yang with enormous Russian
casualties, and the evacuation Of for
titled positions, are regarded here as
| merely incident. Though it is recog-
nized that the weeks battle which
they fought must take it's place as one
of the Nloodiest in ancient or modern
history, yet if Kuropatl1in reaches
Mukden with a potential remnant Of
his army, Oyamas effort will, in Eng
lish eyes, be regarded more or less
as fruitlesS sacrifice.
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