New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-19
Trying TO STEM
TIDE OF DEFEAT.
KUROPATKIN FIGHTING DES-
PERATELY TO SAVE HIS
BATTERED ARMY.
JAPANESE VICTORIES
WERE EXAGGERATED
Russian Defeat Said to Have Been Not
as Bad as at First Reported Lone
Tree Hill Recaptured-Advance of
Japs Continues.

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| feeling of bitter disappointment over the
complete miscarriage Of Gen. Kuropat-
| kin's plans, the battle continues and his
defeat does not appear to be so crushing
and disastrous as the Toxic kilograms
led the Russian public to suppose.
| While the tales of death and slaughter
have plunged the nation into grief and
the exact situation Of Kuropatkin's
but probably must be regarded as crit
ical, it is evident that the wild stories
of rout and of the cutting off Of a whole
corps, etc., are baseless. Kuropatkin is
still doggedly trying to stem the tide and
there is nothing but admiration for the
| heroic figure of the Russian commander
personally directing the fight to save his
battered legions.
Lone Tree Hill Recaptured.
Indeed the latest official dispatches al
most revive the hope that he does not
consider the battle to be irretrievably
lost, as he has personally launched at
tack after attack against the strong
Japanese position on Lone Tree hill,
south of Shakhe, at last carrying it by
storm and obtaining some revenge for
the loss of the Third artillery brigade
by capturing II field pieces and one ma
chine gun. But whether this offensive
move Of Kuropatkin was forced in order
to extricate his TANKS is not revealed,
the war office affirming that it is unable
to communicate precise information re-
garding what is occurring on the left.
Slaughter Is Appalling.
Everything proves that not since the
time Of the ancients, and certainly not
within hundred years, has the world
witnessed such desperate fighting The
slaughter doubtless is appalling, but the
war Office contends that the Toxic re-
| ports are exaggerated. Nevertheless a
war correspondent telegraphs under
Sundays date that $4,000 wounded had
passed through Mukden on their way
north, not counting many from the
eastern wing who went through from
Fushun direct to Tie pass. In spite Of
the better tone of the official dispatches,
| however, the public continues pessimis
tic, Notwithstanding the appeals of the
newspapers not to despair, the Novoe
Vremya boldly announcing in its is
sue of Monday that the battle is not yet
decided.
Battle Still Raging.
Official reports received by the war
| Office Monday morning say the battle
was resumed at daybreak, that the Rus
slams still hold the right bank of the
Shakhe river, that the pressure on the
Russian left has been relieved and that
the contest is continuing on the right,
where the Japanese are still seeking to
break through the Russian center, evil
IDENTIFY in order to get possession of the
railroad and cut off the Russian army
from Mukden. Unofficial reports say
the Russians had some successes at
Shakhe Sunday, where Gen. Kuropatkin
again took the offensive.
While admitting that the Russian
losses are very heavy, but not offering
figures, the general staff declares the
Japanese reports of the Russian losses
are exaggerated while their own are
minimized
Lonely Tree hill is situated near
Shakhe, about three miles east of the
railroad. The Shakhe river runs round
1 its base. The Japanese seized the hill
! during the night of October Is, over.
powering the two Russian regiments
which previously were in possession O!
Il it. Russian requirements were hur
ried up and early the following morning
a opened sustained artillery fire. Subse
q quently the Russian infantry stormei
r the hill and fierce fighting at close quar-
;. tiers followed. Numbers of japanese
were bayoneted in the trenches ant
$ ultimately the defenders were driver
:. out after several hours of fighting. TIL
losses were heavy.
Japs Continue Advance
Toxic, Oct 1S-It is reported from re
liable private sources that the Japanes
are continuing their advance and tina
they have occupied additional position
south of the Shakhe river. The LET
army occupied Wufukiatun at noon Sun
day, dislodging four or five battalion