The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-10-01
MArSrArNANcE OF ARMY.
Believed that Food Must Come from
 Russia.

H
 General Kurokfs Headquarters. in the e Field. undated. via Tientsin. Sept. so.-- fEvening1-The most intere sting mlii- tary problem at present. is how large a Russian army the railway can support In Manchuria.
 While the army Is south of Harbin. almost all the necessary food supplies can be obtained In the country, but the farther north 1t goes, the more 1t must depend oa the railroad,s while at the same time the Japanese will gain an advantage by having an increased area to draw from.
 The richest section of Manchuria Is the country of which Liaoyang ts the principal market. and the crops in that section are unusually large. Merchants who are acquainted with the country believe that iG General Kuropatkin snould retreat to Harbin, he must then bring nearly every pound of food by means of the railroad. especially as this years crop in the sungari Valley has proved a failure. Besides this, every horse for the Russian commander must be brought over the railway.
 If winter campaigning Is attempted. on which point there Is much specula- ton, 1t will become Increasingly dif- Ecuit after December. because the ground freezes to so great a depth as to render intrenching operations impos eible.
 The organization of the Japanese army continues to be as efficient as 1t has been since the beginning of the campaign. Most of the troops were equipped with winter clothing when the first cold weather and snow arrived, and khaki has been replaced by heavier material with remarkable quickness
 The railroad will be operated to Liao- yang within a week and through trains will be running to the front from Dal- ny and Newchwang.
 The harvesting is progressing slowly in the fields in front of the Japanese ermy and to the north. There Is a great scarcity of labor and as a re- euit many of the crops are neglected.
 The thick millet. which has been a great factor in the movement of both armies. has nearly all been reaped. and there is now little more than bare plains.
 The correspondent of the Associated Press, on the road from Liaoysng to Newchwang found that surprisingly little damage had been done to the grain, considering that two great ar mics had fought over the country, while, with the exception of a few buildings which had been burned in tho Russian settlement at Liaoyang. there were small evidences of destruction.
 The reports which charged the Ja- panese troops with footing at Liaoyang were greatly exaggerated The footing done at Liaoyang was insignificant, and compare with the footing at Tientsln and Pekin by foreign troops in 1900, is not worthy of mention.
 Conditions at Mukden are bad. There are 30,O00 refugees there without re- sources, and in the deepest poverty The Tartar General Is conducting a re- lief system, to which the Dowager Elm press of Russia has contributed.
 A committee for the relief of desti- ute Chinese throughout Manchuria has been organized with Henry B. Miller, the American Consul General at New chwang as chairman.
 Missionaries are again active. The Japanese authorities are assisting them and have permitted all the missionaries to return to their posts.