Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-06
WAR OFFICE DOES NOT
 FEAR FOR KUROPATKIN
Latest Avices Say That the Russian General is ing in Good Order-The Russian Column is About Fifty Miles Long-Roads Badly Washed and hud. dy i'm Many Places

SC PeterSDurg, sept b, osOo D. Ill.,. 1 Apparently the war office is not great .-ly disturbed by fear that Field Mar shal Oyama will cut off General Kuro- patkin before he reaches Mukden. Ac- cording to the latest advices the Rus sian retreat Is being effected in good order. The heads of transport trans passed through Mukden yesterday at noon and the fact that the baggage trains continued on their way north ward of Mukden, the war office ex- plains, does not mean that Kuropatkin is bound further north at this time, but is simply a natural precautionary measure, even if he intended to hold Mukden, the Russian formation dur ing the operations of an army locating the baggage train fourteen miles and the ambu.snce c0rUs four miles Ill the rear of the main body of troops.
 The news from the front indicates that Oyama, having failed to sur round Kuropatkin at Iiaoyang, is pressing Kuropatkin's rear with all the power of his tired troops while hurrying forward column which crossed the Taitse Cfiver at Bensihu (3O miles northeast of Liaoyang and five miles due east of Yentai stationl, ! in the hope of cutting the Russian line of retreat below Mukden. This cot umn may consist of fresh troops in light marching order. The Bensihu road joints the main road from Yen tai where the latter is intersected by the Hun river, three miles below Muk- den. Once this point is passed Ku- ropatkin's army will have the Bun river between it and Oyama. The only uneasiness is due to the possibil- aty that Japanese light draft gun N.. coming up from New ChWang, might Suddenly make their appearance. the (river being navigable to this point. / As Kuropatl1in was just north or { Yentai when the heads of transport entered Mukden yesterday it is evil dent that the retreating column is over fifty miles long.
 ENTERTAINING IN GOOD ORDER
 Nfukden, Sept 6 q 40 D. nl.lIrhe re. treatVo of General Kuropatkin's army is being carried out in good order despite the terrible condition of the roads, ren- dered sodden by the rains which fell yesterday and to-day, which mire the numbering guns and heavy transport trains. Long lines of commissary wagons drawn by strong mules, horses and even bulloclss are straining their way north over. the coaking, 4crlt-Up main road from Yentai Behind them come long trains of artillery and back of them General Kuropatkin's army. The Japanese are hanging on Kurp- { patkin's Hanks, keeping the Russians engaged in continuous rear-guard ac- tion. The progress of the retreating army has been slow, owing to the ne- cessity of fist getting through the bag gage and guns: but the heads of the commissariat trains already have passed through MuRden and are con tinlling their way towards the north.
 The main Japanese army is march. dng up along the roads eastward of the Russian lines of retreat which con- verge at NIakden, Another Japanese force also is heading for MulIden from the west, coming from the direction of the Liao river
 Field Marshal Oyama seems to be making race for Mukden. He evi- dently has great superiority in num- bers, especially in artillery.
 As this dispatch is filed the cor respondent of the Associated Press can hear the booming of the. Japanese call- non, which are in play Fourteen miles from MlIkden.
 The skies are black and the air Is stifiing with the sense of suffocation which is felt here before storm 3breaks- strange harmony between the elements and the menacing attitude of the moving armies.