Perth Amboy evening news., 1904-09-08
CLOSING ON MUKDEN.
Russian Army Still Retreating
Toward the North.
NUKDEN BASE IS BEING EVACUATED
Japanese Arc Constantly Pressing
on K~urOpatIkin's Rear-They Have
Taken Many Guns, with AM
munitIon and stores.


munitIon and stores.
LONDON, Sept. S.-St. Petersburg is
now confident that the critical stage of
the Russian retreat is past and that
Kuropatkin is no longer in danger of
losing any part of his forces, though he
still continues his retreat toward the
north.
Kuropatkin is making a terribly ardu-
Gus retreat with his army, guns and
baggage over vile roads, rendered
worse than usual by the recent rains.
This retreat is not destined to end at
Mukden, which place is untenable, but
farther north, probably at Tieling.
K%uropatkin is doing all possible to
avoid a fight which the Japanese are
straining every nerve to force him to
accept.
A great battle is going on before
Mukden. The First and Seventeenth
corps are engaged against General Ku
roki.
The bulk of the Russian troops are
moving toward Telling.
Late reports from Mukden say that
the whole country is aflame with the
widest and most contradictory rumors.
The principal interest in the sltua-
ton is in the fact that the Chinese pop
ulation is becoming more anti-Russian
with the advance of the Japanese
army.
Mukden itself is overcrowded, and it
is almost impossible to get food Or a
place to sleep.
Everywhere there is the greatest up
roar in the direction of Hardin. The
soldiers, however. are not at all dis
heartened at result of the fighting and
say that the Japanese losses are so ire
mendous as to seriously weaken them.
They declare that they have made the
Japanese pay infinitely more for Lao
yang than it was worth.
Nj. Kiriloff, the Russian correspond
ent who was shot through the lungs in
the attack on General Stakelberg's
corps southwest of Liaoyang on Aug.
10, is in the Russo-Dutch hospital, and
the doctors say that he is not yet out
Of danger. NJ. Kiriloff, however, de-
clares he will soon be back in harness.
Advices from Mukden say hat the
main Russian army, pushing north
ward, is e~vacuating that city, where,
it now appears, General Kuropatkin
has been since Monday.
Some of his troops, it is understood,
are not entering the city, but are tax
ing up prepared positions around Muk-
den, While there is no specific infor-
nation on this point, the general staff
believes that only a small rear guard
us in the neighborhood Of Yentai.
L There has been constant fighting at
the Russian rear and along the eastern
wing.
Part Of Kuropatkin's force which is
coming to Mukden by wagon road is in
danger of being cut off. All day and
right Monday the japanese in the hills
on the east road shelled the Russian
troops.
In one instance the Japanese infan-
try attacked a large force of Russian
infantry and artillery which had taken
to the hills, running parallel to the
Japanese, in protecting the flank of the
retreating army.
Troops, guns and transport are pour
ing into Mukden by train and road.
Considerable transport was left be-
hind.
The roads are in a frightful state
owing to the heavy rain Monday.
A Tokyo report says that the Koku-
min learns on good authority that XII
roki after taking the heights near Hell
yingtai, about fifteen miles northeast
of Liaoyang, has occupied a line from
Yentai to the mines by hot pursuit of
the Russians.
The Russians, who were said to be
concentrated twenty miles north of
Liaoyang, are now %retreating in the di-
rection of Mukden. The pursuit was
by the high millet.
The Russians destroyed their stores,
but numbers of guns and quantities of
and other supplies were
captured.