The Pickens sentinel-journal. (Pickens, S.C.) 1903-1906, 1904-09-07
RUSSIANS STAND PAT.
Second Round in Conflict at Liao-Yans
Under Way-First Assault in
Favor Of Cars Troops.

The news silence regarding the bat.
tie OF Liao.Yang-perhaps regarded as
the mcst sanguirary in the history of
which began with dispatches
to the Associated Press direct from
the battlefield late on Tuesday night
was broken by Associated Press ii3-
patches received Wednesday saying
that fighting had been resumal at
dawn that morning and that the Airing
extended along the en- re line some
seven miles in extent.
a dispatch from Liao-Y Yang received
late in the afternoon told Of rereated
bayonet advances on the road direct
ly south OF Liao-Yang where the Rus
slams shelled the Japanese posiions
until 4 o'clock in the afternoon. when
the engagement, which was general
throughout tho south and southeast,
narrowed to the main line. The can
nonading continued until evening With
out advantage on either side.
The sudden termination of direct lis
patches gave rise to the belief lAat
communication had been cut north CT
liao-Yang was incorrect.
A Liao-Yang dispatch filed at SCI
p. IN. Wednesday said that the Jap@r-
ese were getting around the Russian
left flank, wS.e later dispatch stttct
that the Russians had effected an adj
vance along the railroad to the south.
ward from which direction the Rus.
sions retreatcd before the battle VI
liao-Yang was begun.
Reports reaching st. Petersburg are
to the effect that after fighting twelve
hours, Tuesday, the Japanese we're
driven back by the Russians, the tide
OF battle turning in favor of the Rus.
slams at o'clock in the afternoon.
The Russians claim TO have retakes
several forts in the afternoon which
had been occupied earlier in the day
by the Japanese.
The dispatches estimated the jap.
aneSe force at about 100000 men and
the Russians at from 10000 to 200.
600 men with from six hundred TO
one thousand guns engaged on each
sGc.
The highest military authorities in
St Petersburg consider that tho most
critical stage of the battle has not
set been reached, and they believe
that the fight may continue for some
time before either side acknowledges
defeat. This is an important consid.
a. iifvl,t nf oh,
lerpret any immediate news.
1t is thought that, in view of the
plumbers engaged, the desperateness OF
the assaults and the length of the
lines, about seven miles. the losses
in the two days lighting can not fall
nhort Of 10000 on each side. Both
sides are straining every nerve, real.
;Iing that the fortunes Of var for a
whole year are in the scale and nei.
ther side is in the mood ROr the posi-.
tion to spare men in the effort to
achieve final victory.
The battle OF Liao-Yang will propa.
bly, rank as one Of the great slnguin.
AIRY battles Of history. 1t is estimated
by the general staff that the Japanese
armies engaged number seventeen di.
visions OF $1,000 men each. or. allow,
ing for ineffc!ents, about 100000 men.
Each division has thrty-six guns, ana
there are two independent artillery
brigades OF one hundred guns each,
making total OF about 500 guns.
In the preliminary fighting of Mon.
day the Russians captured 200 prison.
ors. who have already arrived at
Harbn. and report persists that they
captured over forty japanese guns on
Tuesday