The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-10-23
MORE CHEERFUL FEELING.
Russians Again Look Toward the
Future With Hone.

| cuIuFe with Hope.
81 Petersburg, Oct. p. Il.O5 u. M
! with the closing of the week the semi
panic produced by the heavy reverse
sustained by General Kuropatkin's
] army last week has i'm a great meas
| ure disappeared, and there is a much
| more cheerful feeling pervading tine
/ war office. The general disaster wbica
I threatened to engulf the Manchurian
army has been averted by the results
/ OF the ten DAYS of almost continuous
/ hghung, which tonight is practically a
draw.
General Kuropatkin has again dis
PLAYED consummate skill in preventing
Field Marshal Oyama from reaping the
! fruits of victory BY Withdrawing his
shattered left wing under shelter of the
right center he succeeded in the gizan-
tic task in taking 5000 wounded off the
field Of battle and, more than this. ac-
cording to all indications. he reorgan-
lied and reformed his broken legions
and again confronts the japanese
across the Shakhe river.
Better Results Hoped For.
a resumption Of the conflict on
large scale is believed to be Imminent,
and st, Petersburg hopes that the van
quished in last weeks battle will con-
quer in future fighting
That kuropatkin after losing close to
10000 men was able to resume the Of
fensive within a fortnight constitutes a
feat in military history. There was ar
impression early in the week that Cen
eral huropatkin was concentrating his
forces on his right and center to avoid
being driven off the line of the rail
road, which might have embarrassed
the retirement of his left. but now ne
has had ample time 10 withdraw. and
the situation shows more determination
than ever TO secure strong advanced
Positions across the Shakhe. It is
known that the left has actually pushed
forward slightly, and the idea that op-
erations contemplate only rear guarc
actions seems negatived
Nevertheless, dispatches to the Asso-
Grated Press from Mukden today say
that kllropatkin has been fortifying
positions on the Hun river behind him.
which might indicate that he purposes
only TO make an active offensive be-
low Mukdeu. Another advance
by either side would combine a move
ment by flank, but no evidence of any
thing of the sort has yet developed
General Staff Satisfied.
The general staff acts rather nys-
teriously. 1t simply attributes the ces-
satiOn of operations to the natural ex-
haustion of both sides but does not
ofer clue TO What il anticipates. II
is significant however, with what sat
isfactiOn the news of the CAPTURE Of
Shakhe town, at the intersection of the
Shake river and the Mandarin road
was received here. The taking Of the
town is considered an important
strategical gain, placing General Kuro-
patkin i'm complete mastery of both
sides of the Shakhe river between the
railroad and the Mukden- Bentsiaputze
roads and assuring his communications
against the possibility Of being cut off
from the south. The only point on the
left bank of the Shakhe river remain
ing in the hands of the Japanese is
Lamuntung, within rife Shot of the
railroad bridge. The bridge has pre-
sumably been COMPOUNDED witk the
Shakhe station, five miles north. the
report that the Russians had bonn
Darded the station applying to the
bridge. as the station Is now beyond
the sphere Of their operations.
Point of Collision.
The heavy concentration of both Rus
slams and Japanese between the Man
DARN road and the railroad makes GER
tain tremendous collision al this
point. The Associated Press learns that
portion of the Eight Army corps.
which had reached Hardin, is kurryins
southwark.
While the japanese evidently are de-
termined 10 pursue the policy followed
by them since tie beginning o. the
war, of concealing the extent of their
losses, the war Office believes that their
casualties must be at least three
fourths as great as those of the Rus
in the neighborkood of
$4,000
The weather has again become clear.
but is very cold, and the soldiers are
reported to be suffering. A correspon- !
cent wires that two Japanese were
found Friday night by a detachment
of Cossacks. They were Unconscious
and half frozen. and were conveyed TO !
the Russian camp, wLere they were
cared for.