Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-09-01
RUSSIA STOPS JAPAN
Kuropatkin In Great Battle
 Holds Liaoyang.
BAYONET CHECKED FIVE ASSAULTS
FOrtihcations Render the Town AL most ImpregnabIe, and the CxRr's Troops Believe There Will Re
 No More Retreats.

most ImpregnabIe, and the CxRr's
 Troops Believe There Will Re
 No More Retreats.
 LONDON, Sept. 1.--Advices from St. Petersburg say that the Russians have effected an advance along the railway to the southward of Liaoyang. General Kuropatkin has repulsed all the Japanese attacks so far and will not abandon his position.
 The position of the town renders it nearly impregnable, and General Kuro- patlxfn has at his disposal troops equal in numbers and morale to the Japa- nese. They number 250,0O0 The force is made up of six Siberian and two European army corps, with IA squadrons of cavalry and 300 guns.
 As a result of the battle the Japa- nese have been driven back to the south along the railway by Kuropat- kin's troops, and the Russians have gained distinct advantage When the Japanese advanced to attack the Russian lines they were repulsed at each attempt with enormous losses.
 From Port Arthur news comes that the Russians are again in the Etseshan hills, but no confirmation is given of the capture of the fort of that name by the Japanese.
 The Russians are using balloon high over the Liaoyang position to ascertain the movements of the Japa- nese.
 General Kuropatkin holds around Liaoyang seventeen forts, heavily arm- ed with artillery. The superiority of General Kuropatkins cavalry compen- sates to a certain extent for the in feriority of his artillery.
 Three Japanese armies are before Liaoyang, and their artillery constant Iy pours shrapnel upon all the Russian positions. A body of Russian cavalry traversing an exposed route was cut to pieces. It lost 800 men.
 The Japanese have carried on the fight with an energy approaching des- peration, but the Russians are buoyed up in the belief that point has been reached where there will be no more retreating, and the Japanese attacks are met with shouts and hurrahs from the trenches and the rifle pits.
 Five times the Japanese hurled themselves against the Russian line, but each time they were repulsed at the point of the bayonet.
 There were about 1000 guns in ac- ton on each side, but Russia has more guns emplaced than have the Japa- neSe.
 The losses cannot yet be computed, but they have been great everywhere, especially among the artillerymen. Tn the First Russian artillery brigade every officer was either killed or wounded, and some of the guns were silenced absolutely owing to the death of all the gun crews.
 The battle of Liaoyang will probably rank as one of the great sanguinary battles of history. It is estimated by the general staff that the Japanese armies engaged number seventeen di- visions of 15,000 men each, or, allow ing for inef1cients, about 240,O0O men. Each division has thirty-six guns, and there are two independent artillery brigades of 100 guns each, making a total of about 500 guns. The esti- mates range at from 600 to 1000 guns per side.
 Tn the preliminary fighting of Mon day the Russians captured POO pris- oners, who have already arrived at Harbin, and reports say that they have captured over forty Japanese guns.
 General Kuropatkin's effective forces are variously estimated at from TO- GOO to 100000 men.
 The Japanese advance on the south east was by way of Fengwangchens road. Immediately in front of Chiao- fantun the Japanese stubbornly at tempted to occupy round topped hill, which was literally shaved by Rus sian shells. The Japanese made re- peated attempts to occupy that hill, on which it was apparently impossible for anything to live.
 The cannonading continued from this point to the vicinity of Wangpoa- tai until evening without apparent ad- vantage to either side The Japa- nese have dropped hundreds of shells within two or, three miles of the rail- road station and in the plain near Wentshu mountain which is the most important eminence around Liaoyang.