The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1904-09-03
PRESSED HARD BY Jap5,
RUSSIAN ARMY MOVING BA(K
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even no intimation of it had leaked
out II Is now explained that the Rus
sian commander in chief had all along
anticipated that the Japanese. when
they made their advance OH Lao Yang
would pursue the Identical tactics
which have been so successful in
every previous stage Of the campaign.
and while attacking in front would at
tempt by a wide detOur 10 Outflank tEe
Russian position.
This time General Kuropatkin was
not caught mapping. He was prepared
for just what happened, and as soon
as he received word that General Ku-
roki had crossed the Taitse twenty
miles above Lao Yang and was NOV
ing westward, Kuropatkin met the
move by throwing his whole army over
at night. By this piece of strategy
kuropatkiD, in the opinion of the gem
eral staff. gained an immense advan-
tage. His army is concentrated on one
side of the river, and the road is still
open for his retirement nOrthward.
! while the Japanese armies, which must
| act in union, are separated by the
river, which places Europatkin in a
position to oppose Kuroki with mis-
whole army while Generals Oku and
Nodzu are stranded on the other side.
which gives KuTopatkin possible
I
tics and defeat the opposing forces in
detail.
There is only one parallel in his
tory" said a high officer of the war
office to the Associated Press today,
and that is Metz. when Prince Fred
erick Charles straddIed the Moseue with
the German armies. But Kuropatkin
has not repeated Marshal Bazaine's
mistake of sitting still while the en-
envy closed him in"
kuropatkin's great strength in cav
airy. in the opinion of the war office,
will stand him in good stead now
Some Points in Doubt.
Whether the whole OF Kuropatkin's
army got across yesterday is not def
initely established. the war office rot
/ having yet received complete advices,
the latest information being that the
/ crossing of the river was not being in
terfered With. In view of the Toxic dis
/ patch received this morning, il is posi-
bic that the troops forming the Jap
anese screen and a portion of the Rus
sian right flank did not succeed in
crossing the river. There are two good
| regular bridges at Lao Yang, over
which the Russian crossing was effect
ed and then there is the railroad bridge
about two miles down the stream.
The Toxic report that kurOpatkin' s
forces were ia action at Hei Wing Tai
north of the Taitse river, indicates that
General KuroK has already en-
gagged him with a portion of his army
1t is understood that throughout the
fighting of the last few days Kuropat-
| km's main reserves did not leave the
nigh positions on the right Of the river
The report that telegraphic cofamuni-
cation between Lao Yang and Mu61er
has been severed is not admitted at the
war Office, which points out that it has
! only been receiving two kilograms daily
! from Generals Kuropatkin and SAX
harOff. Two were received yesterday
and two are expected today. although
none had been delivered up TO noon
The absence of press kilograms is ex-
| planned, as announced in these dis
| patches yesterday, by the transfer OF
! the head telegraph Office at Lao Vans
/ TO Shekhe, fifteen miles north which
was necessitated by the fact that Jap
| anese shells were dropping into the Of
| flee, although the office was situated
on the north bank of the Taitse river
A shell killed an operator Monday. The
| field telegraph, which is working be.
tween Shekhe and Kuropatkin's head
| quarters, is not available to correspond
/ ents, who would have to send theil
messages by express rider 10 Shakhe
a difficult task owing to the heavy
! roads.
! The public here is still Sin complet,
| ignorance of the new phase which tn,
battle entered yesterday, but interes
/ is at white heat Every foreign tele.
| gram is eagerly pounced upon and the
newspapers are printing extra edition.
/ four or five times a day, a thing here
tofore unprecedented in the history o.
! the Russian capital