The Minneapolis journal. [volume] (Minneapolis, Minn.) 1888-1939, 1904-08-03
RUSS ARMY QUITS
| HAI.CHENG, ROUTED
st. Petersburg Despairs of Kuro-
patkin's Ability Even to
Retreat.
JAPANESE ABOUT TO
DEAL CRUSHING BLOW
Kuroki, Nodzu and Oku Have
Only to Follow Up Successes &
of Three Days.

ot' petersburg, Aug. 3, o:46 PIN
The correspondent of the Associated
Press hears that Emperor Nicholas
has just received a telegram at Peters,
hof containing alarming news. e
1t is also reported that ViceroTi
Alexieff, who had gone to Hardin on
his way to Vladivostok, returned to-
Liao-yang yesterday and conferred
with General Kuropatkin regarding
the situation.
Whether general engagement is
already in progress around .Liao-yang
between the forces Of General Kuro-s
patkin and the three Japanese armies
which have been moved against them
from the south and east, the decisive
battle of the campaign is regarded as
certain if the Japanese energetically
follow up their preliminary successes
of the last three days.
At various points the fighting has
been OF a desperate and bloody char.s
acter, the Russians offering the most
stubborn resistance. The losses, there
fore, must be heavy on both Sides.
Between six and eight thousand men
is one estimate given of the Russian
losses. All estimates, however, are
guessWork as yet.
The strong screen drawn around
General Kuropatkins interior posts
Hai-cheng being practically aban-s
doned without a blow. The pressure
of the Japanese numbers and the
failure to hold the northern posi-
ton, probably rendered it useless to
try to hold out there.
Compact Chain.
The Russian forces last night con-
stituted@a comp aetsehain in the form
of semicircle around Liao-yang, ex-s
tending from An-shan-han half way
between Hai-cheng and Liao-yang to
An-ping, which is only thirteen miles
east Of Liao-yang. Unless the bulk
of General Kuropatkins army has al
ready been withdrawn north Of Lao
yang, it is difficult to see how he
could now do SO with such great
pressure, the Japanese being almost
upon his main lines.
Inasmuch as portions Of four army
corps were engaged in the fighting
up to last night, and as these corps
comprise three-quarters Of the whole
Russian army, it seems certain that
nothing except a portion of the stores
and munitions has yet been removed.
Nevertheless, well-informed military
attaches believe Kuropatkin will get
away with the bulk of the main army.
From the best information obtain,
able as to General Kuropatkin's disA:
positions. his forces were located this
morning as follows:
General Zaroubaieff's and General
Stakelberg's corps formed the right
wing at An-shan-han; the First ST.
berian and the Tenth European corps
were on the left; the recently arrived
Seventeenth corps and the portion Of
General Stoesseps corps not at Port
Arthur, were at Liao-yang.
Intense anxiety prevails in all Cir
cles. ALI newspaper specials from thA
front are suspended, which is consid.
cred ominous.
Evacuation Of Hai-cheng.
A brief telegram from General Ku-
ropatkin. received this morning, re-
ports the evacuation Of Hai-cheng
and declares the japanese did not !
Aug. Q, adding that they were evil
IDENTIFY unable to follow up their adj
vantage of the previous day owing to
the tropical heat. The general says
the soldiers threw away their overs |
coats and equipments and adds that
everything possible was done to re.
lieve them, but, nevertheless, there
were a, great number of deaths from
sunstroke.
Japanese Losses.
Toxic, Aug. 8, 10 a.m.-The Japs.
anese defeated the Russians at To-
mu-cheng (Dimou-cheng) and drove
them toward Hai-cheng in a. sharp.
fight, which began last Saturday and
ended on Sunday. The Russians left
$500 dead on the field and lost six
guns. /
General Kuroki has te1egrapf1ed /
tsu-ling and Yu-shulin-tzu, his losses t
were six officers killed, sixteen officers t
wounded and $50 men killed and |
wounded.