The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-05-21
THANKING MOVEMENT OF
 LAPS MEETS DISASTER
FORCE DRIVEN BACK ALMosTTo
 ITS BASE.

sItiOns Extending Over Fifteen Miles Report That KuropatIxin Has Sent I 10000 Men to Relieve Port Arthur s Declared by Russian General Stan to q be Incredible.
 St. Petersburg, May 2O.-The follow hg dispatch from General Kuropatkin the emperor, dated at Liao Yang Hay 19, has been received here: 4"A detachment of Cossacks engaged detachment of the Japanese advance suard on May IS north of Feng Wang 4heng in a mountainous district. The ght began in the morning and lasted $ltil 2:S0 o'clock in the afternoon. 'sThe Japanese were successfully dis adged from four positions, extending Ter fifteen miles.
 8"The pursuit of the Japanese was Topped at Datianty, thirteen miles birth of Feng Wang Cheng.
 Flour casualties were six Cossacks, Bounded two horses killed and eight brses wounded
 < There is no trace of the enemy in lie valley of Tsanhoka, as far as the :. ad leading to the Tchangouline pass, ghteen miles north of Feng Wang heng.
 sEt. Petersburg, May 20.-6:40 p. m.- .bllowing on the heels of the news of Ne disasters to the Japanese fleet the Bneral staff to-day received official ll9vices of the defeat of the Japanese rce which was marching northward sbn Feng Wang Cheng for the pur- se of executing flank movement on lkden. Since General Kuroki sent a i umn northward 10 gain the road < Ading directly west from Mukden, #neral Kuropatkin has kept it under closest surveillance, awaiting the $ment when it should be so distant Am the main Japanese army as to event it's eeasy reinforcement. In ob- living this plan the Russians with kw and the Japanese not finding a #ong force of the enemy before thm, Atinued to advance. When the time N action came General Kuropatkin
 General Rennenkampff loose from ssh. General Rennenkampff held un-
 his command only a few regiments,
 they were the flower of the Cosack falry. On May IS he fell on the en- N, whose number has not yet been aealed, with such vigor as to compel
 Japanese retirement twelve miles Yard the base, near enough, it is stunned, to have received reinforce- hts from General Kuroki, who must nediately have been advised of the sward predicaent The operation is cribed by the general staff as just lh a move as it was expected Gen.
 Kuropatkin would make, and for Ech General Rennenkampff was fit
 and chosen.
 he latter's appearance on the stage
 somewhat late It had been in- led that he should raid Korea at
 beginning of the war, but he arr
 Id at the front too late. The general
 believes General Rennenkampff' s
 ok must have been in the nature of hunderbolt. He is man to attack
 kly and hard. only given the op-
 uulLy, anu HIS lHcil, VCteIdtlS OL
 Chinese campaign, had been select
 Aspeciall because they knew what
 as to be under fire. The casualties
 aimed by the opposing forces have
 yet been announced.
 Ie report that Kuropatkin has sent
 b men to relieve Port Arthur is de-
 Fd by the general staff to be incred-
 csitnh a move fhev say wo11ld
 court disaster, for Kuroki natur-
 would take advantage of the
 ement to throw his entire army
 Es the railroad and strike from the
 while the entire Japanese troops
 Puthern Liao Tung would attack in