Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-03
ISSUE OF BATTLE
STILL IN DOUBT.
rbc English Military Authorities
Think il Has no Serious Bear
log on Eventual Issue
LONDON PRESS COMMENTS
,oto the Eject That II Is Great
Fighting but That Nothing
Is Determined.

,oodon Sept S.-English military au-
,l,,Ies neither share Toklo's ju6ila-
..,r over the result at Lao Yang nor
ry stress upon the advantage which
russian dispatches attribute to Kuro-
n.,tIns latest move, The best IN
',,mod observers who have access to
.oprces OF information not re- ed In
hc dispatches from TokIo,and Hngiyen
vi. At 81 ePtcrsburg, declare that the
,.uuo Of Lao Yang however dramatic
and historic In loss Of He and tragic in-
.,a,rts can have no serious bearing on
ms eventual issue unless the Japanese
have surrounded Kuropatkln.
The London daily newspapers In
boIr headlines depict the conditions at
tso Yang az RUSSIAN Rout,' DE
t.o,' or "Debacle" Their editorials,
d, more careful vein, point out that
,bs latest dispatches leave the issue OF
me greatest battle Of this generation
still IN doubt,
From the expert British point OF
,,,O MARQUIS Oyama'a sacrifices WIN
b,ye been in vain unless he II able TO
I'M IN {uropatkin from Mukden. On
mis- point there are chaotic hypolheses'
The Daily Graphic says I'VE are
In the dark as to the anal outcome
adding that Il seems not unlikely that
Europatkn may still manage 70 carry
lighting force with him 10 Mukden.
Tbo other critics doubt whether the
Japonese. In the face OF "lndomtablc
Russian pluck are strong enough TO
press home the preliminary successes
already won,
The Morning Post concludes a careful
survey of the four days lighting With
the oplnion that the battle of Lao YANG
win take rs place beside that OF Wa
teroo. and believes that whether or
NOT Kuropatklns force Is able to con.
ilnuo IFS retreat, II will be broken ana
useless for some time TO come
The Russian view that Cen kuropat-
Kin. by crossing the river divided the
opposing forces meets with slight con-
sheraton, as II Is pointed out that
AN the japanese units cannot attack
simultaneously from different drec-
tIons. which eliminates any advantage
to the Russian side and really agra
Yates the seriousness Of their position,
the Japanese force being superior
IN numbers The suspense With which
the developments AT Lao Yang are
awaited could scarcely be greater In
Toxic than II Is In London.
The Daily Telegraph which hailed
the initial successes at Liao Yang with
tho degree of finnllty, now admits that
10 is not iucOnceiyable that kuropat-
Kim may cxtrlcate portion OF his
forces though this is characterized as
the supreme effort Of a forlorn hope.
The Daily Telegraph continues zone
Of The most exciting problems ever
known In war has been narrowed down
10 one point, namely whether a part Of
the retreating army will succeed I'm
tearing through ientai, leaving many
thousands Of men and some hundreds
NJ guns behind them. or whether Gen,
KurokI viii complete the ring by ham
mermg blows, Perhaps a seventh day
must be waged before the issue can
be finally declared
The Daily Telegraph's military critic,
In common with other English experts,
sees nothing but a superior japanese
force and strategy 20 account for Gen.
kuropatkln's present position. This au-
thority predicts an eudeavor ON the
part Of the Russian force to reach Chi
ncso territory.
The Standard buntly voices the
thought OF many by saying; rs IT re-
treat or ROUTE The standard says Gen.
kufopitkin in his "precarlous condition
Ia D. hA %
lug the signal catastrophe OF surrender
en- mssse II he can still get his army
away to the north. Even with the loss
OF many men and guns and valuable
supplies the success Of the Japanese
VIII be a good deal modified
The Times compares the battle Of
LAO Yang to those Of Wagram Leip-
slW, konnlgratz and Gravolotte, but II
says; We still have 10 learn whether
lhe japanese reaped the fruits OF vic
tory In such abundant measure as to
make the battle a thoroughly decisive
turning point Of the war. From the
news thus far available there seems TO
oe a strong probability that they will
Ue aole 10 do So
The Times Toxic correspondent, ca
bling Friday, says "The premature ru-
NUTS or the fall OF Lao Yang are re-
peated today, but a careful analysis of
oHclal reports shows that the Russians
nave merely been driven into their last
une OF defenses, where they will prob
eoly make a desperate resistance. Three
Japanese armies are closing around
Them
Ihe correspondent Of the Morning
ioSt with Gen. Okus army says that
'he russians could easily have defend
90 Anshanshan with a small force, and
ggat the Russians, when retiring from
.nuahoph' destroyed a bridge 250 yards
long across the Shade.
.. me Seoul correspondent Of the Daily
telegraph says the japanese have
erected sham fortress, In imitation OF
Fort Arthur outside the west gate of
seoul so that when the fortress fails
Ihe inhabitants may see the real thing
at their gates" '''e
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