The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-06

rght flank is not known at the war
ounce but IL Is not believed that the
japanese can now develop enough
strength to endanger its retirement.
peing without precise Informs ton
themselves. The absence of news from
TOXIC Of anything decisive is also re-
garded as q good indication that Ku-
ropatkin is free.
The officials OF the war Office DO not
expect renewal Of the fighting for
several days, which they think the
Japanese viii employ in recuperating,
wnlie kuropatkin collects his army
preparatory TO pushing the troops
northward. He has a double. track
railroad and the high road When thu
lighting recommences 1t is expected
here that il viii be in the nature Of d
series of rear guard ACTIONS, as the
hnd withdrawal is effected. There are
no Facilities at Yentai for defense.
Kuropatkin Surprised
According to the military authorities.
all Kuropatkin's hopes and plans for
victory We're dashed by the wonderful
CELEBRITY with which Oyama's/ right
pushed northward after crossing the
Taitse river. Here Kuropatkin's infOr-
nation evidently was faulty in beIiev-
ing that he had before him the whole
OF the japanese forces which had
crossed over to the right bank. He had
already completed a preliminary bonn
! oardment of Kurokfs force Friday and
was about to strike him when he dis
covered that another Japanese column
had crossed the river further I'D. the
stream. and he worked around still fur
Their northward. The latter column was
marching with great rapidity westward
10 cut the railroad and close the door
on the Russian retreat to Mukden. Just
at this point there is a hia tus I'm the
reports. Whether kuropatkin actually
attempted TO deliver a blow against
KuToki is not clear. At all events, If
he did he was compelled to desist upon
the discovery of the uortherly Japanese
column. The latter took him by sur
prise.
Saved Utter Rout.
General Orlof's divisions. which suf
| fered so severely, had just arrived from
European Russia. Although this di
vision was thrown into confusion and
lost a frightful number Of men. the
temporary check il was able to give
the japanese probably saved the ran-
road for KurOpatkin. In the meantime
Kuroki. freed from Kuropatkin,
marched hastily westward to intercept
General StakeIberg, who was crossing
the river from the left bank 1t was
then that Kuropatkin thought Stakel
berg's corps was lost and so reported
TO the war Office. But Kuroki was too
late. Stskelberg not only succeeded in
getting his corps across, but marched
at high speed thirty miles to Yentai,
actually arriving in time to come 10 the
support OF hard pressed OrlOfH
The war Office processes ignorance of
the losses of guns and men sustained
by the Russians, but there is no doubt
that many thousands have fallen.
Tie retreat Of Kuropatkin has evil
IDENTIFY thrown everything into confu
sion at the front and the reports re-
ceived are meagre and incomplete,
The military expert Of the Novoe
Nremya says the chief question Of the
moment is whether Kuropatkin viii
succeed i'm collecting all his forces from
Lao Yang and effecting retirement
to Mukden in view of the fianking po-
sition taken up by the Japanese.
"Reinforcements," the paper says,
fare undoubtedly arriving at Yentai
from the north. Our main hope lies
in the possible exhaustion. of the Jap
anese after the bloody and unprece
IDENTIFY long and severe fighting which
practically cntinued day and night
from Aug. q to Sept. s.
The emperor has undergone q great
strain during the past week. His main
fear during the last few days was
that kuFopatkin would be cut off. Like
his subjects, the emperor has taken
kuropatxin's defeat greatly to heart,
but the preservation of the army or
ganization has been a great relief and
his answer TO the battle of Lao Yang
will be the mobilization of two more
army corps. So far as can be learned
the emperor shows no disposition 10
blame Kuropatk.n.
Put on Brave Face.
All classes of the population are
awaiting with intense eagerness the
receipt Of details of the battle and es-
inmates and particulars of the losses.
Crowds hang around the bulletin
boards. The wives and families of
many Of tie lower classes OF the peO~
pie spend most of their time in the
churches, praying that their loved ones
may be spared.
The accounts of the battle published
in the newspapers here are very in
complete. Some of the papers evident
" have not yet awakened 10 the fun
force of the disaster. but without ex
ceptiOn they try to put a brave face
on tie situation. There is not the
slightest suggestion of yielding. The
cry Of the papers is that the war must
go on until Russia is victorious, if not
this year, then next year.
REVILES ALEXIEFF.