The Billings gazette. [volume] (Billings, Mont.) 1896-1919, 1904-10-18
RUSSIAN LOSS
is TERRIBLE.
FORTY THOUSAND KILLED IN
LAST BATTLE.
THE FIGHT NOT YET ENDED
Many Of the Cars Soldiers Are Bur.
led BY the Victorious Army
Of the Mikado.

Toxic, Oct. 16-In the reports OF
| the great battle which continue to ar
rive fro mthe front the most striking
feature is the terrible record of Rus
sian dead Before the severe fighting
on October IA, General Oku's army
alone recovered and buried 1000, max.
| ing the total number of Russians bur-
led by the Japanese with Noduz's
| army still to hear from, $500. Ap-
plying the usual calculation and max
| ing reasonable allowance for the
| fighting of the 14th and 18th, the
Russian losses will exceed 100000
Fragmentary reports of Japanese
casualties are coming in. General
Oku, up to and including October a.,
lost $500 men, Estimates of the to-
tai Japanese losses are not possible,
but they are small in comparison with
the frightful losses of the Russians.
Reports dispatched late yesterday
from the field are in the following
chronological order:
'"The main force of the right army
which had already occupied Chouchia-
fun heights reached line on the
Shakhe river, but one division of the
enemy continues to offer stubborn
resistance The center army has
reached it's objective and has been
fheavily engaged since the morning OF
October Is. On the morning of Octo-
Der Is the enemy in front of the left
army continued holding it's position
north of Shahopo and Lamuntun, Of
fered strong resistance. The CEN
ter column is engaged in taking
Shahopo and the main body of the
right column is advancing against
Lamuntun and is attacking that posi-
ton, which are vigorously shelling
the attacking column and our position
at Linchienpo, but the bombardment
is not strong enough to prevent our,
advance. On October II the left col
umn of the center army lost 261
killed and wounded.
''The casualties to ourselves and the
Russians and the number of trophies
captured by the left army follow:
During the five days from October
10 to IA inclusive, our losses were
about $500 killed and wounded, Off
GERS included. During the four days
from October 10 to ,13 the number OF
corpses left by the enemy and buried
by us reached 1000. The enemy's
dead after the battle of October IA
were very numerous. The prisoners
taken numbered 80. The principal
trophies were 80 guns and many ri
fles, uniforms and accoutrements. The
latter are still uncounted. There are
some forces of the enemy on the
right bank of the Shakhe river, in
front of the main strength of the right
and center armies, but no battle on a
great scale has occurred. The forces
of the enemy at Shahopo and Lamun-
tun facing the left army have been
offering a stubborn resistance, but
have been dislodged and their posi-
tions have been captured. On the
afternoon of October is force of the
enemy appeared near Santaokangtzu
and continued to offer resistance until
sundown, portions of our center and
left army engaging them"
Toxic, Oct. 16.-There is a strong
appeal for peace in the appalling
tragedy which is now under enact
ment in Manchuria. Both armies
have fought ferociously for a week
and desperate fighting still continues.
1t is probable that the death roll will
be largely increased before the final
shot is fired.
The preliminary reports indicate
that about 10000 men on both sides
have been either killed or wounded,
the larger portion of them being Rus
SLAMS, since the armies of the two
belligerents closed in combat.
Even the Japanese, to whom the
great victory is of paramount import
ance, seem to be shocked by the
slaughter of their enemies. The Jap
anese people are receiving the news