River Falls journal. [volume] (River Falls, Pierce County, Wis.) 1872-2019, 1904-10-27
BAD WEATHER BRINGS REST
EXHAUSTED ARMIES IN FAR
EAST UNABLE TO FIGHT
Lull Caused by Rains and Impossible
Roads-Losses Are Enor-
NOUS.

ST Petersburg, Oct 21.-Apart from
skirmishes and exploits OF scouting
parties, there is almost complete
suspension of operations in Manchu-
ria. The heavens have interposed to
put stop to bloodshed. Rain, impass-
able roads and exhausted armies are
factors sufficient in themselves to ex-
plain the cessation of hOstilltieS, and
these conditions are aggravated by
dense fog overspreading the whole OF
the theater of war. Behind this pail
either side would be able to change the
disposition of whole forces in. absolute
secrecy; but the obscurity renders alb
solutely dangerous any attempt at a
forward movement When the curtain
of mist is lifted the fighting may be
resumed under totally changed condi-
tons
Neither Disposed to Yield.
st. Petersburg, Oct. 24.-There is no
change in the relative positions of the
armies on the Shakhe river. Gen.
Sakharoff telegraphs that the Rus
slams have been bombarding I-2muting
and the Buddhist temple at Linshin-
pu, while the Japanese have been
Smelling the Russian position at
Shakhe and near Linshinpu A dis
patch from Mukden reports that the
japanese are fortifying an important
height south of Shakhe and that
neither side shows a disposition either
to advance or retire. Another dispatch
from the Russian front says the stu
alton is not yet ripe for the resump-
ton of the offensive. This meager but
significant admission, all that the CEN
sor allows to pass over the wires,
doubtless indicates that Gen. Kuropat-
kin is maturing important plans and
distributing his forces in readiness for
another attempt to break the Japanese
resistance. The roads are now dried by
wind and frost; the cold is intense
and flooded fields have been frozen.
Thus military movements are facili-
tated though at the same time it will
be more difficult to carry on entrench-
ing work.
Japs Driven from shakhe.
Lieut. Gen. Sakharoff, in a dispatch
to the general staff, says:
THE retreat of the enemy from
Shakhe was precipitate. We found in
the village arms, munitions and pro-
visions which had been abandoned by
the Japanese, who also left behind on
our old artillery position one cannon,
four limbers and a wagon full of in
ert,,, tc
tured from us Since the battle of
October 16 we have captured altogeth-
er IA Japanese guns, including nine
field pieces and five mountain guns,
and have retaken one of our own lost
guns
Russian Loss 10000.
Toxic, Oct. 24-Manchurian head
quarters, reporting by telegraph, says
that the number of Russian dead found
on the battlefield and inferred up TO
October p makes total of 10 $50 Upon
this total Russian casualties are esti-
mated to exceed $4,000. The Japanese
captured a, total of As guns during the
Shake operations.
Entire Force Wounded.
Mukden. Oct. %. - Every man of the
200 Cossacks commanded by Capt Tour
genieff, who on Tuesday night recon-
noitered the Japanes,, left southwest
ward, and who, near Sandopu, uneX-
pectedly encountered a good-sized Jap
anese force with machine guns, was
wounded. and every horse, except Capt.
Tourgenieffs, was hit by the bullets