Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-13
DESPERATE BATTLE
Oyama Reports Fight Along
 Entire Front.
RUSSIAN REPULSE AT SIENCHUANC
NurOpntIrin Says Japanese Are stub- bornIy Resisting Advances Above Yentai, Where Heights Are
 Taken and Retaken.

DOrmly Resisting Advances Above l Yentai, Where Heights Are 1 Taken and Retaken.
 LONDON, Oct. 13.-A late report from Mukden says that stubborn fighting is still in progress, this being the third day of the engagement. It is irnpos- sible at this time to say what has been the result.
 Hospital trains are continually arriv- ing from the south with wounded men who are being sent further north. A l dressing station has been established on the railway platform here where nurses and surgeons give prompt at- tention to the most urgent cases before the trains proceed.
 The frontal attack on the Yentai mines has developed desperate bat tie, in which probably 100000 men are engaged but though the dispatches so 1 far deal almost exclusively with this feature of the battle, there is much wider field involved. A fight on the Russian left flank has not yet develop ed, and possibly here General Kuro- patkin intends to deliver his main blow.
 Advices from Tokyo say that battle south of Mukden has ragged uninter- ruptedly all of Tuesday and still con- tinues. The results have not been de- cisive.
 The Russians have a heavy force on the Japanese right toward the Taitse river, but it is believed that the Japa- nese have checked the Russian turning movement.
 A brigade of Russian infantry, with 2,O00 cavalry and two guns, having the object of striking General Kurokf's flank, has crossed the Taitse river. The Japanese cut off the retreat of this force and possibly will capture it.
 The Russians attacked Sienchuang, ! thirty miles northeast of Saimatsze, which is southeast of Liaoyang and al most due north of Fengwangcheng, evidently with the object of cutting off Japanese communication with the Yalu river.
 Field Marshal Oyama reports that there is fighting along almost the en- tire front, that the Japanese were gain ing ground and that the Russian att tack on Sienchuang was repuIsed. A Newchwang dispatch says that Kuropatkins great southern advance has been suddenly checked.
 Not only have the desperate artillery engagements, tremendous duels of which the roar is heard forty miles off, resulted in the Japanese stubbornly maintaining their old positions and in some cases capturing others, but Oya- ma has ordered a general move of his great force on Mukden.
 Reports from St. Petersburg say that the battle below Mukden continues to rage along the entire front, and, ac- cording to General Kuropatkin's latest advices, after the fighting Of the day had ended the Japanese were stubborn ly holding their own, offering desper- ate resistance, and had even advanced their positions.
 After an all day fight above Yentai, where the Russians suffered their first check, the Japanese still held that po- sition. The infantry virtually was not engaged, the artillery bearing the brunt of the fighting. The Japanese stuck to their guns, and the Russian batteries were unable to dislodge them.
 General Sacharoff, telegraphfng, con- firms the reports of desperate fighting north of Yentai, where the heights were alternately held by the Russians and Japanese.
 Russian dragons have captured a copy of message from the emperor of Japan to his troops in which the mi kado says he is still awaiting the de- cisive defeat of the Russians. It is apparent from this intelligence that the Japanese are equally preparing for important events.
 Tokyo advices say: "Our guardship Shirataka, off Port Arthur, has captur- cd the steamer Flu Ping, which was att tempting to run the blockade An enormous quantity of articles of con- traband destined for the port was found aboard"
 A corrected list of the men who sank with the Japanese gunboat Hei Yen in Pigeon bay shows that only 197 lives were lost instead of nearly 300, as re- ported.
 It is reported that the Baltic fleet Twill sail for the far east at the end of this week. When it is off Lisbon it is to separate, the minority of the ships taking the Suez canal route and the others going by way of the Cape of Good Hope or the Horn.
 Did Russian Spies Wreck Boatss
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 18.-A report has reached Washington concerning the torpedo boats which were being shipped in twenty-three car loads over the Great Northern to Seattle and were partially wrecked near Towner, N. D. They were built at the yards of the Fore River Shipbuilding com pony, Quincy, Mass, upon the order of agents of the Japanese government. They were to have been shipped from Seattle to Japan. Just how badly they have been damaged is not known here. It is understood the company will in- stitute thorough investigation regard ing the wreck, which it was suggested in dispatches was the work of Russian spies.