Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-10-05

JAPENESE ADVANCE
ANTICIPATED
Big Triangle With Apex at Tie
Pass Will Soon BE Theatre
OF ENte. dcd Opera
tiOnS.

The expected battle between the
Russian Manchurian army and Mar
shall Oyama's forces has not yet oc.
CURED and today's advices do not In.
dicate any developments Of important
! a character, upon the part Of either
(, army. Opinions seem general that
: the next battle Of decisive nature
will occur at Tie-Pass. Lieut.. 0ener-
al Stoessel reports the Japanese loss
es in attacks on Port Arthur from
Sept. 10 to Sept. % were 10000 men.
He adds that the Japanese are now
working actively and approaching
the bay entertainments and tunnel.
| The success of the Russians resist.
ance at Port Arthur is believed in St.
/ Petersburg to have a bearing on
Oyama's failure to attack kuropat-
kin.
Expected to Advance.
ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 5.-Mil-
itary critics at St. Petersburg share
in the general uncertainty as to how
to size up the situation at the front.
Field Marshall Oyama makes his an
ticipated advance. They seem ia
agree that strong screening move
ment is in progress Immediately east
of Lao Yang, that probably frontal
attack will be made from the wesi
and that the tactics of the Japanese
at Lao Yang VII be reported and
General Kuroki will make a thanking
movement from the east. Some o
the critics point out that conditions
at Port Arthur may force change o
Oyama's plan of campaign. The con
fortress and the enormous losses sus
tanned by besiegers they think ma.
compel Oyama to dispatch some vet
eran troops from the ManchuriaI
army to General Nodzus' support, al
the reinforcements arriving al Por
Arthur are mostly reserve men.
Big Campaign Preparing.
TOXIC, Oct at is evident tn,
country which is embraced by an ir
regular triangle, the apex of which il
Tie-Pass, with base running from
Mukden to Fushun on the uppe
, reaches of the Hun river, will soon b,
, the theatre of extended and extensiv,
military movements. The Russian
are apparently using Tie-Pass as
main base, and constructing serie
of defenses to shield it from the soutl
and east Two roads approach Tie
: Pass from the south. One Of thes
roadways is the main highway from
Mukden and the other which is small
: er, starts at PuShun and wind
through hilly country. Nineteel
miles north OF Mukden Is the town O
Yilu. the southern and eastern ar
proaches to which are sheltered b
;. sharp ridges, offering strong naturs
protection. II is reported that tn
! Russians are strongly entrenched i
these ridges and constructing sem
permanent Notifications. The vi
river which is shallow and fordabl
runs through the town. The Ru.
slams are reported to be fortifying tn
right bank Of the river between Yil
and Tahaitun, fifteen miles to tn
: north ford. Several lines OF ridge
: cross the road. 1t is said the Ru
. SLAMS are erecting works on EN-
nences between Tahaittun and I'll,
Pass. For some seven miles tn
country generally speaking. is fla
:. although the condition of the roadwa
from the eastward is hilly, 1000 mi
tres in heighth, the Russians are TO
tifying. The Russians are holdin
Fushun with heavy forces and it
l. believed that they are erecting fort
4 along the road from that place I
q Tie-Pass This defensive work
a the Russians and disposition OF the
II force strengthens the belief that Gel
m Kuropatkin merely intends to retar
Field Marshall Oyama in his crossir
the Hun River and to give battle c
" the ground which he is now rigid
Is fortifying.
g. Hoad Decorated.
TOXIC. Oct 5.-The emperor tods