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FORCE OF $4,000 IN DANGER.
REST or RUSSIAN ARMY NOW
BELIEVED TO RE SAFE.
Pursuers sim PRESSING Remnant sf knfss
pathin's Rear Guard-Treeps hsvins
North OF Mukden. and stand MAY no
Made at TteiinE, AZ Miles Further On.

patkin's Rear Guard-TroopS msvinB
north OF Mukden. and stand May 10
Made at TrelinE, ~ Miles Further o.
Special csOIs Dsspateses TO Tm SUM-
LONDON, Sept. lO-The Express says u
has received from q Russian source, tho
trstworthiness of which Is not doubted,
the following information regarding ths
position in Manchuria, adding that the
facts in the narrative were contained 10
official dispatches received In st., Petcrs-
burg vest rday: M PA
The position OF the Rrissian army is not
so disastrous as has beeh supposed. The
chief reason Of thls Is the success OF Gen.
Meyendorff, who has concentrated about
~ 900 men twelve mil 8 south OF Mukden
and who Ia holding Gen. Kuroki's army
In check with a much greater certainty OF
success than messages from the front have
indicated. Gen Kuroki made his first
attack on Gen. Meyendorffs forces on
Wedne sday, but was obliged to draw on
with heavy losses. Since then he has
delivered further attacks, but without
success.
1900 MEN IN DANGEROUS PozfTIoE.
During this time more than halt the Rus
, sian rear guard, with their baggage and
other impedimenta, got safely TO .Mukden;
but there are $4,000 men in position OF
extreme danger. This force is south OF
Mukden, exhausted by five days and nights
OF incessant fighting. 1t is doubtful
they can ever regain the main army.
Nevertheless Gen. Kuroki's grand plan
, has been thwarted; for the Russian left
| flank, by its heroic defence, has enabled
Gen. Kuropatkin to retire and averted
great disaster. At the same time the
position is not without danger.
The Russian army is divided into fve
| columns. The first column has reached
Telling, forty-hve miles north OF Mukden,
| where it is making hurried preparations
to defend the place against attack. The
second column is about midway between
| Mukden and Telling. The third is at Muk-
den. The fourth is the remnant unoer
| Gen. Meyendorfr, which is sustaining
hard fight with Gtn Kuroki on chain OF
hills about twelve miles south Of Mukden.
| The fifth column is pressed on three sides
by the japanese and can hardly hope to
reach Mukden.
NAY FIGHT AT TELLING.
The idea that decislve battle viii be
\ fought at Mukden il out OF tho question.
II has never been Gen. Kuropatkin's plan
to give battle there, for Mukden is not pro-
pared to withstand great attack. and IL 70
were Gen. Kuropatkin's desire to fight
outside Mukden he would be faced by the
vital difficulty of e1trioating himself in
case OF defeat. The country around Muk-
den is not geographically suitable for de-
blowing an army OF 10000 men,! Any
fighting that may occur, therefore, may
be regarded as merely rear guard action.
As to the prospects Of a battle at Telling
all depends on how long Gen. Meyendorh
can hold Gen. Kuroki and upon the arrival
OF Gen. Linievitch, who is advancing from
| the north. II the Japanese force Cen
| Meyendorff to retire there will be no battle
at Telling and the retreat to Hardin must
| continue.
TOTAL CASUALTIES PUT AT 62,6Oo
The Frpress says 1t learns that the Russian
losses to the evening of Sept were 1880,
| exclusive of the losses TO the cavalry who
screened the eastern flank. The Japanese
losses, according to the paper, were $4,000
| 1, declares the report TINT the Japanese
captured ninety-seven field guns from
the Russian rear guard cannot be correct.
No such number OF guns, it says, would
accompany the rear guard, and the bulk
| of the Russian artillery went with the drst
columns.
| MOST OF THE ARMY SAFE.
There is a minimum OF war news, but
what little has been received tends to show
| that the Erpresss account OF the situa-
ton in Manchuria is mainly accurate and
that all but a fraction Of Gen. Kuropat-
kin's army is safe.
A despatch to the Daily Aail from Mnk-
den states that the confusion caused by the
retreat has ceased, and that the remainder
Of the troops and transports are arriving
in good order The retreat thus far has
been little interfered with
THINKS PURsUERs ARE EXHAUSTED.
The Berlin Lokal Ansegsr's correspondent
at Mukden, who has been with the Russian
rear guard, telegrsphs that at noon to-day
the Japanese had not crossed tho Hun
River. The Russian evacuation OF Mukden
is proceeding unhampered.
The correspondent expresses tho opinion
that Gen. Kuroki's cautious advance V
out OF harmony with Field Mashal oyanna's
general scheme, but 1t u inferred from sonns
other dispatches that his apparens osutasA
| 10 actually extreme exhaustion
There Is at present nothing to indicate
how soon the lull viii terminate There
! "a no news from the 5spAnase, who have
been officially silent sincsNSundAy.
TO Be lxEToacxp AT unuo.
The St. Petersburg correspondent Of ths
Telegraph. confirming the reports that