The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-10-19
ARMIES PAUSE In
WORK OF CARNAGE
Heavy Rains Make Operations
Difficult and Armies Take
Needed Rest.
POINT OF NEXT BLOW
A MATTER OF DOUBT
Report that Kuropatkin Has Re
sumed Offensive Is Not
Confirmed. -

st. Petersburg, Oct. 19.-General SAX
haroff telegraphs at midday today that
the Japanese are concentrating at SIN
shin-pu, west of the railroad.
A detachment of Russian cavalry rec
onnoitering last night in the vicinity OF
Chak-he captured two Japanese guns
with no losses to themselves.
The flush of enthusiasm yesterday
evening over the capture Of Lone Tree
hill and Shak-he, the repulse of the at
tacks of the japanese left and the hard
drubbing given General Yamagada, with
the capture of fourteen additional guns,
has given way this morning to calmer
partial successes.
There is no official confirmation of
the report that General Kuropatkin has
resumed a genuine offensive. Indica-
tions are rather that the general Jap
anese offensive has exhausted itself and
sort of deadlock, with the country
rendered so sodden by the heavy rain
as to compel a temporary suspension of
general operations.
A comp lete veil hides the movements
east, but both Kuropatkin g and Sakha-
roff's reports say there were no COLI
sions on that portion of the battle
ground Monday or Tuesday.
Field Marshal Oyama evidently re-
CARDS Lone Tree Hill, from which Kuro-
patkin could pivot a turning movement
against his left, as of vital i'm
portance, as both Sunday and Monday
nights, the latter during terrific storm,
it, accompanying the assaults with
demonstrative attacks against other
points. But all the efforts failed.
Neither Kuropatkin nor Sakharoff in
the dispatches given out this morning
sends details of the defeat of Yama-
D. I H. - is
Japanese guns.
Pftiful pictures are painted by the
war correspondents Of the shelterless
troops bivouacking in the cold rain, the
roads converted into quagmires and the
streams flooded.
The military critics are not yet sat
isfed that Oyama is ready to relinquish
the offensive, expressing the opinion
that he may still try to break thru the
Russian center in order to compel Kuro-
patkin to retire from the line of the
Hun river, unless, as they believe, he
periority Of the Russian numbers and
reserves makes his withdrawal to the
! line Of the Tai-tse river advisable.
/. Russian Reserves Still Fresh.
General Geisman asserts positively
that up to yesterday Kuropatkin had
not brought anything like the regiments
OF MS reserves luJO aCClOu, anu Cne
number of fresh units, behind which his
battered troops could reform, accounts
for Kuropatkin g ability to assume the
offensive. Two complete corps, Gen
eral Stakenberger s First corps AND
General Dembowski's Fifth Siberian
corps and parts of five other corps, he
says, are still unused.
Gear Has Not Weakened.
The Associated Press learns that the
reports representing Emperor Nicholas
! as being respondent and depressed are
( far from the truth. General Velitchko
who saw him Monday night, declares
that while the emperor is greatly
( grieved at the terrible sacrifice Of
life, he is as firmly resolved as eve1
that the war must be prosecuted to
successful close and that he Is by NJ
means satisfied that Kuropatkin, il
whom he expresses the fullest confd
ence, would not be able to turn tn
tables on Oyama before the presen
engagement is ended. .-.
Baltic Fleet Will Divide.
The Baltic fleet will divide, part o
it going by way of the Suez canal an
the remainder round the Cape of Goo
Hope. Captain Jakovleff, formerly o
the battleship Petropavlovsk, who j
now here, explains that the delays i
getting the warships thru the cana
make division of the fleet advisable
the cape route being only a fortnigh
longer with coaling at sea instead Of j
port. He believes the voyage to t.
far east will be made in ninety days.
The fleet has left Fake Berg, Der
mark, for the north.