Santa Fe new Mexican. [volume] (Santa Fe, N.M.) 1898-1951, 1904-09-12
SITUATION
UNCHANGED
Rainy Season is Now on in Far
East and Roads are
impossible.
TOTAL LOSS SUSTAINED
Toxic Give Out Official Report Of Mum.
ber Killed in Battle Of Lao
Yang.

Yang.
| st. Petersburg now practically COZ
cedes that General Kuropatkin is fal
Ing back to Tie Pass and that no sci
ious stand is expected at, Mukder
which indicates the the Russian move
ment is being affected slowly, but i
an orderly manner The two armie
are merely keeping in touch with eacl
other, no fighting of any consequence
being reported. Rain continues to fal
and the roads are impossible. Oflcia
figures from Toxic place the Japanes,
losses at Lao Yang at 1880, and, &C
cording to military experts, the Rus
sian losses should not exceed those o
the Japanese, in fact. as the Russians
were on the defensive they should moi
be as great. The Toxic figures there
fore would indicate that the total cas-
ulties were not more than thirty thous
and
Rainy Season Has Commenced.
Mukden, Sept. 12.-Last night rain
fell in torrents and today it is still
drizzling Roads are impossible, and
military movements are at a standstill
The town is so crowded that foodstuffs
are almost unprocurable. Prices have
trebled and quadrupled. A division OF
the suffers lost almost all their sup
plies during the Russian retreat. Civ
ilians are beseiging the railroad sta
tion and other eating places but it is
well nigh impossible to get food.
Dunn Dunn Bullets Used.
Washington, d. c., Sept. 1.-THE
Japanese legation today received the
following from Toxic: "The Manchur-
ian army reports two kinds of dunn
dunn bullets were found among the
munitions of war captured after the
Liao Yang battle. Some of the
wounds inflicted on the Japanese were
caused by bullets of this description.
Will tbs Powers Intervene?
st. Petersburg, Sept. 12.-Reports
of the impending Intervention by the
powers to end the war are considered
today by the Novoe Vremya which
says there is no prospect of such an
action by France. The paper says it
rather thinks that Germany should un-
dertake the task of separating the
combatants, while Germany has not
material interests enough to be affect
ed as has France and the United
States
Report OF Russian General.
st. Petersburg. Sept. ia dispatch
has been received from Lieutenant
General Sakharoff, under yesterdays
date, reporting that no large Japanese
forces have been seen north of the
Yentai Railroad, but south of there are
many large camps of the Japanese.
oyama's Armies are United.
st. Petersburg, Sept. 12.-No fresh
light has been thrown on the situation
1T the front. Unofficial information
lends to confirm the reports that Kuro-
patkin is withdrawing the bulk of his
army northward from Mukden. Heavy
aims continue. The three armies of
0yama are reported united north of
he Taitse River, but there is nothing
o Indicate that they are sufficiently
'ecuperated to resume an advance.
rhe best official opinion is that Kuro-
,atlxin does not contemplate making
serious stand at Mukden.
Russian Losses Were Heaviest.
Oyster Bay, Sept. 12.-President
Roosevelt received today through the
State Department cablegram from
United States Minister Griscom at
rokio,. giving a revised statement Of
he official figures Of the losses sus-
aimed at the battle of Liao Yang. AS
eported by Field Marshal Oyama the
Japanese losses during the several
lays battle were 1880, while the Rus
ian losses were 10000.
Troops are Cheerful.
Mukden, Saturday, via Pekin. The
russians are continuing their retire
nent to Tie Pass. The Japanese ad-
'ance Is slow, although the military
ituation is not unfavorab1e to them.
fany Russian companies now consist |
( only thirty men. Notwithstanding |
he Russian reverses the retreating
roops are cheerful.
Keeping In Touch with Japanese.
Toxic, Sept. IL. General Oyama re-
,orts that large body Of Russian cav.
Try appeared at Pintaitzu, eastward
/ the railroad between Yentai and
aukden and adds that the Russians
re merely keeping in touch with the
apanese.