The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-14

fifth day of the battle. was an anxious
 time at the headquarters of General
 Kuroki. The Russian bombardment of
 the hills was proceeding. and the Jap
 anese batteries had taken up new po-
 s,tions in the iowlands. It was evil
 dent that the Russians confronting the
 army under General Kuroki, had been
 heavily reinforced.
 The members of the general staff
 were silent concerning the situation.
 Little firing was heard from the direc-
 ton of Liaoyang. Whether General
 Kuropatkin was holding his ground
 there and bringing further reinforce
 ments against General Kuroki, or shift
 ing the main strength of his army
 against the Japanese general who men,
 aced his retreat and was within strik-
 ing distance of the railroad. were mat
 ters of conjecture.
 Chinese Flee in Terror.
 Hundreds of Chinese men, women
 and children. all heavily laden down
 with their possessions. were seen flee
 ing from the villages on the plain
 and disappearing in long lines over
 the eastern hills. Up to the present
 time an ordinary engagement between
 Russians and Japanese. with few bat teries throwing shells back and forth,
 had not sufficed to drive these enter prising Manchurians from their homes.
 The hover about the scene of fighting
 playing the part of scavengers. They strip the battlefields of every vestige of debris, rob the wounded. and take the clothing from the dead. They ev-
 en have been seen between the firing lines gathering cartridges. This morn ing their exodus was taken to indicate that they exepected even greater dan gers.
 Most of the villages had been turned into hospitals and hundreds of wound- ed were seen who told fearful stories of the night fighting.
 The afternoon of September was comparatively quiet. and as the Rus sian fire decreased. Japanese officers thought from the haphazard way the Russians threw their shells where there were no targets that they were perhaps trying to frighten the Japanese to cover their retreat. There was almost no infantry firing during the day of the third. It was explained that the Japanese advance had been hampered by high corn which made 1t impossible for them to reach the Russian position. Kuroki i'm Danger.
 The Japanese lines advanced to the westward only half a mile during the day, and 1t became evident that the Russian army facing General kurokt was too large to warrant the Japa- pese in attempting to attack 1t and that General Kuroki probably would be fortunate if he was aDIe to hold his ground.
 The night of the third geat glow shone over the hills to the southwest and it was surmised that the Russians were burning Liaoyang. The morning of September 4. was intolerably hot, and an ominous quiet reiBned. The
 members of the general staff obvious ly were worried.
 It became known that General Ku- roki's communication with the other Japanese armies had been cut. There
 was no knowledge as to how the tide of battle went with them, but the Rus sian force in front of General Kuroki was estimated at least five divisions. The situation of the brigade on Gen eraI Kuroki's extreme right became critical It was thought that the Rus sians might attempt to cut off General Kuroki by a turning movement through | the zap between his and the fourth army toward Amping. where the only Japanese forces for several miles were some regiments of cavalry patrolling | the valley of the Taitse river.
 Tn the course of the afternoon tho nrosnect frightened. and it rapidly be- came known that fresh brigade had l reinforced the right of the line. Gen eral Kurok concentrated his army by ordering in the left division to rein force the troops holding the front from sykwantun to the Five Headed Hills" No Firing During the Fourth. During the fourth the firing was
 suspended The railroad station at Yentai apparently was a Russian base. Many locomotives were assembled there and long trains of cars were seen roll ing to the northward every hour. The silence and suspense came to an end at o'clock in the evening. At this hour the members of the stan became lContInued. On Pare FivAS