Arizona republican., 1904-09-02

the war ofhce has not given the details of the fighting of September l, but it is believed that this fighting exceeded in fierceness that of any previous day. The absence of press telegrams from Liao Yang on September 1 aroused sus- picions that changes of importance were proceeding, which the military censors did not wish to be made known. A telegram from the Asso- ciated Press correspondent at Mukden filed at 9:27 on the evening of Septem- Der l, states that the train service be- tween Mukden and Liao Yang has been interrupted, but the dispatch does not mention whether telegraphic communi- cations are open.
 According to a dispatch from Liao Yang, General Kuroki made his first attempt to cross the Taitse river late in the evening under convoy of a heavy bCmbardment of the extreme Russian left. The Japanese artillery, which had been firing uninterruptedly for four teen hours a day, ceased about g o'clock and then suddenly reopened about Il o'clock to conceal Kurokis preparations for crossing the river. These preparations necessitated the es- tablishment of a pontoon bridge as the river was not fordable lower than Sakankankwantun, and pOntoOns must have been floated down stream.
 The efforts of the Japanese to cross the river on August 90 were not suc- cesSful and General Kuroki therefore ordered a portion of his army to ford it at Sakankankwantun. General Kuro- patkin was unable to prevent passage, owing to the distance from LiaO Yang, about 20 miles, but for the same req son the Japanese were unable to bring the forces which gained the right bank immediately into action.
 Kuropathin heard or the passage of the Taitse at Sakankankwantun after 6 o'clock on the evening of August 31, and immediately gave orders for his men to fall back on the outer positions. This move is explained by Q desire 10 collect strong force with which to re- pei a flanking movement from the northeast.
 The Japanese repeated the attempt to throw pontoons across the Taiste river near Liao Yang, during the night of August 31, again under cover of bombardment, and this attempt is be- lieved to have been successful. Severe fighting may therefore be expected inn mediately northwest of the city. The action of the Japanese commander in throwing a force across the river in the face of a strong enemy is consid- cred to be extremely rash and the posi- tion of this force, isolated from the main Japanese army by a deep river. may easily become desperate.
 The correspondent of the Associated Press at VladivostOk telegraphs that the Japanese are relying on the aid of the gunbcat flotilla for future opera tions against Liao Yang and Mukden. The gunboats, the correspondent says, have not yet materialiZed, but in any case they would be Tn no position to render aid to a force on the right bank in time of need, because they would be unable to run the forts of Liao Yang. The strongest forts are situated on the right bank, where the Russian army is now concentrated.
 The fighting at Liao Yang has beat en all records for desperate valor of assailants and the invinciDle stubborn ness of the defenders. The whole his- tory of warfare tells of no such bonn bardments, no such carnage and no such persistency. Day after day the fight has been resumed at day break and kept up with hardly a moments intermission until after the night fall.
 War scared veterans scarce believe the stories which come from the seat of war and declare that 1t is beyond human endurance for an army to fight without respite for a whole week, each day of which has exceeded it's predeces- sor in the intensity of the struggle and the carnival of slaughter. Day after day thousands of dead bestrewing the battle field have to be removed. The Japanese have invented new methods to incinerate the heaps of dead com rades, removing the ashes for the hon. ors of burial in Japan. The wound ed present the most serious problem, as they tax the transportation capaC- ities on both sides to the utmost. The most difficult problem which has oc- cured is the bringing up of supplies of food and ammunition to every point of the fighting line, which extends from ten to twenty miles.
 Never has such d bombardment been known. An eye witness of the battle of Vafangow told the Associated Press that many officers suffered nervous prostration following the terrible roar of the artillery, and one military at tache had to be invalided home for the same reason. Yet the artillery fire at Vafangow was far inferior in intensity