Middlebury register. (Middlebury, Vt.) 1886-1937, 1904-10-21
GREAT TEN DAYS BATTLE.

great battle which continue to arrive
from the front the most striking fea
tire Is. the terrible record of the Rus
sian dead Before the severe fighting
on Oct. ID General Oku's army alone
recovered and buried 1000, making the
total number of Russians buried by
the japanese $3.50. Applying the usu-
al calculation and making reasonable
allowance for the fighting of the 18th
and 10Th, the Russian losses will ex-
coed 100000
Fragmentary reports of japanese
casualties are coming in. General Oliu
up to and including Oct. IA lost $500
men. Estimates of the total japanese
losses are not possible, but they are es-
timated at about 10000.
The latest advices from Tokyo are
that the Russians left $500 dead in
front of General Kuroki's army alone.
The Russian losses there are estimated
at 10000 men.
Field Marshal Oyama estimates the
Russian losses, killed and wounded, at
more than 10000 men and the dead at
10000. Forty-fve hundred Russian dead,
he reports, were left on the field aft
er Fridays battle
Field Marshal Oyama's triumphant
troops have driven the Russians north
to a line extending along the Shakhe
river. They are vigorously pressing
the pursuit with their whole force.
All hopes of the world heralded adj
vance to Port Arthur have been aban-
doned.
General Kuropatkin personally took
command of the Petroff regiment at
Shakhe. It was in the midst of an aw-
full war of man and elements, the Pc
troff regiment leading, that the Rus
slams for the last time charged logged
ly into Shakhe and took the town in
the face of the hottest japanese bonn
bardment.
The Russians were finally driven out.
making five times that Shakhe had
changed hands in the course of the
battle. The Russians then retired to
a new position north of Shakhe.
A Tokyo report says there is
strong appeal for peace in the APP
palling tragedy which is now under
enactment in Manchuria. Both ar
mics have fought ferociously for a
week, and desperate fighting still con-
tinues.
The preliminary reports indicate that
about 10000 men Of both sides have
| been either killed or wounded. the lar
ger portion of them being Russians,
since the armies of the two beligerents
closed in combat.
Even the japanese, to whom the
great victory is of paramount impor-
lance, seem to be shocked by the
slaughter of their enemies.
A dispatch from the Russian army of
! the center via Mukden says that after
ten days of the hardest kind of fighting
| this section of the Russian army has
fallen back on the Shakhe river and is
now holding position on the north
side of that stream. The fighting
which commenced shortly after noon
Oct. 8, has been in progress continu-
ously ever since.
In an informal talk which a CORE
spondent had with General Kuropat-
kin in the field just before the fighting
commenced he spoke in glowing terms
of the bravery Of the japanese, saying
that they were gallant foe and also
that they We're most correct in the OBJ
Servance of the rules of war. In this
respect he said it was the most pleas
ant war he had ever been engaged in.
A Tokyo report says that according
to statements made by Russian prison
ers, General Kuropatkin was ordered
by Emperor Nicholas to make stand
at Mukden and to assume the aggres-
sive as speedily as possible in order to
relieve the Port Arthur garrison. This
order, the prisoners say, reached Muk-
den on Sept. 81. and General Kuropat-
kin in obedience to it began his disas-
trous advance.
General KurOpatkin is described as
calmly conducting operations at the
front while shells were bursting around
him.
A dispatch from Copenhagen says
that twenty-four Russian warships of
the Baltic fleet have passed through
the great belt, steering north.
Soldiers of the Petrovsky, Neuchlet
and Wilminstrand regiments stormed
the Japanese trenches at Soukhetung
and carried them after desperate re-
Bistance, capturing ten guns. The Jap.
nnese losses We're enormous.
General Sacharolf telegraphs to ST
Petersburg that the Russians have re-
captured Lonely Tree hill south OF
Shakhe and captured eleven japanese
guns and one quick frer.
Official reports received by the wal
office say the battle was resumed al
daybreak, that the Russians still hold
the right bank of the Shakhe river
that the pressure on the Russian LET
has been relieved and that the contes
Is continuing on the right, where tn,
japanese are still seeking to breal
through the Russian center, evidently
In order to get possession of the rail
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