The Irish standard., 1904-09-17
PREPARE TO make
Stand At TIE pass
RUSSIANS REPORTED TO BE FOB
Trying BOTH SIDES OF
RIVER THERE.
JAPS ARE SIX MILES
NORTH OF LlAOYANG

JAPS ARE SIX MILES
NORTH OF LIAOYANG
Gen. Kuropatkin Sends Detailed Re-
! port of Last Battle-Places Losses
of Cars Troops at II, 900 of Which
1850 Were Killed.
Toxic, Sept. 15.-Field Marshal
Oyama confirms the reports that con-
siderable force oil Russians remains
south Of the Hun river and says the Rus
SLAMS are fortilyins The heights on both
sides OF the Lao river at Tie Pass.
Japs Not Advancing.
S.. Petersburg, Sept. 15.-Gen. KurO-
patkin teegraphins Tuesday evening,
says 5000 Japanese are bivouacking at
Rentsiputze and that the bulk Of the
Japanese forces is south of the Ienlai
branch railroad. The Japanese, he
adds, are not advancing.
Kuropatkin Reports.
The long-eNpected detailed report OF
the battle of Liaoyang has been received
from Gen. kuropatkin. The war Office
| says it will fill several columns. The
report covers the operations from Au-
gust IS to September S. According to
the advance summary communicated
to the press by the general staff, it is
very satisfactory, showing that the re-
treat was effected with such precision
that not single field or fortress gun
was left behind. The total Russian loss
es are below 1900, of which 4500 were
killed.
Runor of Kuropatkin's Successor.
There are rumors ailoat to the effect
spector of cavalry. may supersede Gen.
Kuropatkin at the front. Nicholas
Nicholaievitch has a great fighting rec
ord, made during the Turk war. The
reports. however, may possibly be only
idle gossip
Russians South Of Tie Pass.
Berlin, Sept 15.-Col. Gaedke, the
war correspondent of the Tageblatt.
telegraphing to his paper from Tie Pass
Wednesday morning. says: THE Rus
sian army is disposed south of this
point. The japanese have advanced
only about six miles north Of Lao
yang"
Orloff Blamed for Defeat.
st. Petersburg. Sept. 15.-The ques-
ton of the responsibility for the failure
of Gen. Kuropatkin to crush Gen. Ku-
roki September 2, north of the Taitse
river, which lost the battle of Liaoyang,
continues to excite allabsorbing inter-
est in military circles. But the accounts
hitherto received here have been so
meager and conflicting that 1t has been
almost impossible to determine the ex-
act facts. According to Russian cor
respondent, who throws the blame upon
Gen. Orloff, Gen. Samsonoff, who CON-
mands division of Siberian Cossacks,
was ordered by Gen. Kuropatlsin August
81 to occupy the Lentai coal mines and
hold the extreme left while he launched
the night Orloff, with the freshly arrived
European reserve men, came up and, be-
ing Samsonoff's senior, took over the
command at this point. The next morn
ing. before the arrival of the daily or
ders, Orloff, on his own initiative, de-
cided to attack Kuroki's extreme right
and directed Samsonoff to execute q
thanking movement with his Cossacks.
The latter declined to do so until he had
time to reconnoiter and also because,
as the correspondent declares, Orloff's
reserve men, who had not previously
been under fire, were already showing
signs Of nervousness. Had Samsonoff
obeyed. the correspondent says, he
would have been cut off and annihilated,
as the Japanese were already advancing
, having opened a terrific fire on the YEN
tai mines, before which Orloff's men
flinched and finally gave way. While
In the thick of the retreat one of Kuro-
patkin's staff officers dashed up with
orders for Orloff to hold at all hazards
the position he had just abandoned.
Orloff's troops had then retreated al
most almost to Yentai station. There
Samsonoff's Cossacks at last rallied
them somewhat, but all the burden Of
fighting the japanese fell upon the Co.'S
sacks. SamsOnof was informed that
Gen. Stakelberg was hurrying to his
rescue, but the latter did not arrive till
the following day. In the meantime
Kuropatkin, believing that his left had
been turned. ordered a retreat Septen-
Der 2. But Samsonoff's Cossacks saved
the line OF retreat. Gen. Daneloff, who
was temporarily in command of the d.
vision while Samsonoff was comforting
with Kuropatkin, threw the Cossacks
desperately at the Japanese when the
latter had almost reached the railroad
north of Yentai. The slaughter which
followed is described as frightful, the
, Cossacks using their lances with ter
rible effect, but the Japanese managed
to hold on until Stakelbcrg arrived and
thus preserved the railroad as line of
retreat for the whole army. At one
time during this fighting the Japanese
were fighting on two fronts.
Minister Slain.
Liberty, KY, Sept. 15.-Rev. H. W.
Halter, merchant and postmaster Of