Vilas County news. [volume] (Eagle River, Vilas County, Wis.) 1896-1927, 1904-09-19
NUMBER Is.

the enemy meantime losing heavily.
The troops were all safely gotten to
the right bank of the river on the
morning of September l. The Jap
anese did not occupy the abandoned
positions until the evening of Sep
TENDER 1, when they opened artillery
fire upon Liaoyang. On the night of
September 1 the Russian commander
on the right sent dispatch that the
Japanese had taken the offensive and
occupied the district northwestward
of the Russian Sky wanCun position
After ali day fighting the Russians
were in possession of the village of
Skywantun. Reporting on this fight
General KUropatkin says:
Forced to Retreat.
eve repeatedly gained a position
on the heights, but were finally com
PEELED to withdraw temporarily.
Many of our detachments became
mixed up and in the disorder the
unity of the command was rendered
very difficult. Leaders of individual
detachments, however, continued the
attacks time after time and at last
succeeded in occupying the desired
position, thereby attaining the object
of the operations of our right flank.
GAS soon as the left flank in the vi
entity of the Yentai mines, on Sep
TENDER 2, General Orloffs detach-
ment occupied the heights north of
the mines. He opened fire with two
batteries and engaged the enemy in
an artillery dUel. General Orloff' S..
right flank was then four miles from
the left flank and the remainder of
the army. In order to aid our troops
holding positions. near Skywantun,
General Orloff sent part of his force
from the hills and attacked the enc
my in the direction of Sakhumoon.
This movement was carried out In
cornfelds. Our men met with from
tai and flank fire and losing their
bearings in cornfelds began to re-
tire. The troops remaining in the
hills also retired westward.
"By that time General Orloff's de-
tachment was within a mile and. a
third of our other forces. General
Orloff himself was wounded, as also
was General Fomin, who subsequent
ly died.
''After the evacuation of the posi-
ton which had been intended to
serve as a base of our attack, the
Japanese extended northward and oc-
cupied the whole range of the hills
and the Yentai mines.
Burn Pontoons and Wreck Bridges.
"The enemy was now established
in an extremely good position on the
hills and it would have been too haz-
ardous for our left flank to- attack
them, in view of the Losses sustained
i'll the previous five days. We there
fore withdrew to the village Of Tai
ienko, and I decided to retire to Muk-
den, the retreat being accomplished
On September T. The evacuation of
Liaoyang began and was concluded
on the morning of September,4. All
cur equipment was removed and
there was no time to save the.' com,
missariat reserves, sufficient to last
the whole army eight days. These
were all destroyed. The pontoon
bridges were dismantled and carried
off by the troops, while the tempo
rary pontoons We're burned}~and the
railway bridge wrecked. The army
retired in perfect order. The enemy
attempted to pursue burt was re-
pulsed.
Desperate Night Attack:
"Our detachments holding posi-
tons at Talienko sustained a furious
night attack, which was particularly
desperate, September s.. We re-
tanned our position but Suffered
heavy losses, one regiment, which
bore the brrnt..of the -ffghtt losing
SUI killed or wounded. >~s
''By evening of September 8, the
danger of a simultaneous attack on
our front and left flank had disap-
peared. The removal of our artill-
cry, transport and baggage trains
was effected in the. face of immense
difficulties, but was successfully con-
Guided"