The Bourbon news., 1904-09-09
|GREAT BATTLE RACES.
Two Russian Corps Engage the
Japs Near Mukden.
There is an Absence of Japanese Of
fetal Reports, and the Idea Pre-
walls That This Bodies III for
the Russians.

news of Monday, and is indicated in
report forwarded by Gen. Kuropatkin,
who says that his retreat is being con-
Quoted in perfect order, though the
Japanese on Sunday repeatedly at
tackled his rear, and continued the
attack until Monday. The result Of
the race is in doubt.
With this race In progress there
comes brief dispatch from Mukden,
saying that preparations for the evacu-
alton of that place are proceeding
This report, if we'll founded, as is
pointed out in st. Petersburg dis
patches, would mean the abandonment
of the whole southern Manchuria, and
the winding up of the present CAM
paign
st. Petersburg, Sept. 6.-The Rus
sion losses during the fighting at Liao
Yang are estimated at 10000. There
is no doubt here that a number Of
guns, especially siege artillery, have
been abandoned.
London, Sept. 6.-The race of Gen.
Kuropatkin for Mukden enthralls the
British press and public, and military
and other critics scarcely dare ven
ture a definite surmise as to the re-
suit. The best opinion inclines to the
belief that Kuropatkn will get through
with a respectable remnant of his
great army, thus robbing the Japanese
of the complete fruits of their victory,
but it is rumOred that the Russians
will not be out of the woods for sew
eral days.
New York, Sept. 1.-THE dearth of
immediate press and official dispatches
from the actual seat of the far eastern
struggles continues 1t is admitted by
the Russian war Office that no tele-
grams whatever were received from
Gen. Kuropatkin bearing Tuesdays
date, the last message to the emperor
from the general being dated Septem-
ber 5, and briefly telling that the army
was advancing northward, that it had
extricated itself from a dangerous po-
SitiOn, that there was constant can
nOnading of the rear guard, and that
the losses on that day were but 100
The situation, in the light of the latest
information may be summed up as fol-
lows:
The Russian forces are pushing on
to Muiden, greatly impeded by heavy
roads and floods, conducting an order
ly retreat, and followed step by step
by the Japanese. Details of the fight.
ing and of the exact position of the
opposing armies are lacking.
The Japanese field marshal, in an
extended report of the fighting up to
September 4, says that the Russians
burned all the railroad bridges over
the Taitse river, and predicts that
while the Japanese list of casualties
is not yet complete, the losses will
prove heavy.
The heads of Kuropatkin's long COM
missary trains have passed through
Mukden, and are continuing north
ward
Paris, Sept. 8.-The ST. Petersburg
correspondent of the Echo de Paris
says:
"a great battle is going on near
Mukden The 1st and 18th corps are
engaged against Gen. Kuroki Gen.
Kuropatkin, with the bulk of his
troops, is moving toward Telling
London, Sept. 8.-The trend of the
view of the morning newspapers on
the war in the far east is that Gen.
Kuropatkin's arrival at Mukden does
not solve the problem of his retreat.
Where will Kuropatkin stop?" is
what is asked here.
The Daily Telegraph holds that the
largest developments are merely the
preclude to the colossal conflict loom-
ing in the future"
Most of the English critics look FIR
a repetition of the Liao Yang battis
at Telling, or in that neighborhood
Scarcely any London newspapers be-
lieve that Kuropatkin has brought the
bulk of his forces with him to Muk-
den 1t is pointed out that neither side
is likely to risk the desecration of the
imperial tombs by pitched battle at
Mukden, the cradle of the Manchu
dynasty, and the mecca of all good
Manchus, the capitol will likely be re-
spected from motives of policy by
both the belligerents, though a COM
paratively pacific occupation of it by
the Japanese is forecasted to occur
within a few days.
The Standard voices the idea that
the continued Japanese silence bodies
i'll for the Russians.
other critics prophecy that the JAP
anese will occupy Mukden or Telling
as winter base
The Daily Telegraph's Seoul CORES
IL1 dent says there is an unccnfir5pcG
report there that the Japanese have
landed several fresh divisions of
troops in the vicinity of Possiet bay.
cutting off the Russians in Northeast
ern Korea.
Baron Won Muegge Goes to Europe.
Washington, Sept. 8.-Baron John
F. Won Muegge, of Chillicothe, O., is
in the city on his way to Germany.