The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-09-07
WILL CARS ARMY
FIGHT WITH FOE?
st. Petersburg View Of the War
Situation Unlike Report
From Front.
JAPANESE SILENT
AS TO PROGRESS
Russian General Staff Says Move
ments Depend on Enemy's
Intentions.

,ears, General Kuropatkin has been
ince Monday. His. troops, It Is under.
tood, are not entering the city but arg
3g up RRhRs there is no specific
formation on this point, the general
staff believes that only a small rear
guard is in the neighborhood of Yen-tal.
No fgrt dond g IL Of mpSStt e ert
cal stage is regarded as having passed
and the announcement was made this
afternoon that the war office will no
longer give out two bulletins each days
Believe Kuropatkin Safe.
From latest adxices RECEIVED i've" b by the
that the danger of Field Marshal Oyama
cutting off General Kuropatkin has
practically passed. According to their
calculation, the whole Russian army
should reach Mukden tomorroW night.
been marching northward along paral-
lei lines, both armies being greatly ham.
pered by heavy roads, the Japanese IN
a rough region and the Russians along
a fiat country, but embarrassed by the
h mssrch gnsns on f fSen sde Of the main
roads. No difficulty. is being expert
enced at the Hun river, a few miles
south of Mukden, where bridges had
been provided for crossing the stream IT. IN
Russian rear and along the eastern
wing, but SO far as known by the war
office nothing of Importance has oc.
CURED since The retreat began.
Reticent About Plans.
about Kuropatkin IS plans, especially
whether he intends to stop at Mukden.
His decision probably will depend on
the intentions of the Japanese. Prepa-
rations probably will be made to evae-s
ha tha5e IS nnmnaaa
70 go north, will make a stand at Tie.
: ling where the Russians wintered last.
wear. Telling is forty miles north of
Mukden. AT this point there is mar
I row defIe, with the Lao river on one
side and mountains running almost
down to the railroad on the other.
Steps are being taken to guard against
possible attempt to cut the line there.
AS the Russian newspapers begin to
realize more fully the catastrophe which
, yang and the skillful manner in which
he upset Field Marshal Oyama's plan
, to surround the Russian army, they
take more cheerful view Of the result
+ and are beginning to bestow praise upon
a General Kuropatkin.
pose in pressing the Russian positions
y in front of Liao-yang was to hold Kuro-
= patkin IS attention while the japanese
n right wing was thrust against the Rus:
sian rear to block the Russian line of
retreat. But Kuropatkin at its very IN
a! ception had his eyes upon this thanking
movement and countered by early with
drawal of his main army to the right
bank Of the Tai-tse river, changing his
r front to meet and hold General Kurok
in check while General Zaroubaieff 4
1 corps at Liao-yang crossed, burning the
bridges behind him and placing thu
river between him and General Oku.
n Both Accounts Agree.
Both the Russian and japanese ac
counts seem to agree in saying that unit
the withdrawal Of the main Russial
army from Liao-yang began, kuropat
kin had beaten off the japanese as
saults in front of Liao-yang and that tn
Russian commander-in chiefs frs
". movement against Kuroki was ais
ne measurably successful: -.
S., While not Understanding the diff
is culties attending the task OF the retire
n ment of the army northward and. tn
lis continued threat from Oyama's righ
the Novoe Vremya evidently consider
III, that it already has practically been su,
Mt cessfulIy accomplished. The Novos
rs says:
TO the seriousnature Of the consequences {
eo the defeat of the Russian army is full
= appreciated, and as the views of the
On On military critics are by no means u
~ ne favorable, there exist no reasons WI
Iar we should give way to despair over
", NJ defeat which never took place.
~ ~ The Invalide Russ, the army orga
zee also continues to maintain that Cyan
H. H. met with a strategetical defeat, but
~ ~ expresses the opinion that Oyama b
r., not vet given up hope of hanklng kur
az. at patkin, for which he is strengthenIl
oro Kuroki and diminishing the pressu
nd against the Russian rear. ),
~ The Novoe Vremya, reviewing t
situation, declares emphatically tn
neither mediation nor peace are M
even thought OF.
Long Casualty Roll.
MI No further details Of the losses 81
VN fered by the Russians during the t
days. fighting have been received Il
long the roll of casualties ultimat'
ydes will be, can be estimated by y. the oH IiS
ses- report of the number OF on ~ s XII
lous or wounded between Aug. ~ and a
81. in a single division. This divisi
any that Of General Kondratsvitch, which
free under General Zaroubaief, and VIII
ter formed part of the Russian right q.
the low Liao.yang, lost Twelve yes an oTle
most killed, thlrty-hve Wounaeo anu
,rfty missing. -
tive. tive The report that the sailing of the
,,,a,s tic SQUADRON. had been postponed III
cally ~ veIlpst' IL - sauaral of fhe shins q
es' posing it developed defects,
pref soiladron will sail for Libau, Sund
ause ~ TlSao+I., when 81 will sail thence is
d be LncMn
and Altho the report that Rear Adm
Ouktomsky, in command OF the Russ
fleet at Port Arthur, is to be co
decided to recall him, probably piaS
,rted Captain Wren of the armored cru
uced Bayan in command. 1t has been 7
the lied all along that Ouktomsky lac
steel the requisites OF q commando or
find under such difficulties, but owing TO
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