The Bourbon news., 1904-09-16
RUSSIANS RETREAT|NG.
The First Part of the Campaign
Considered Lost.
The Russian Army Will Reconcentrate
in the North, But it Needs Several
Months in Order to Fill Up
the Losses.


Yang correspondent, having ridden to
Tien Tsin, sends thence the following
uncensored dispatch, under date OF
September IL:
1.-The first part of the campaign may
be considered lost The Russian army
has retreated northward in the direc-
ton of Tie Pass, or further. The
Russian army's inferiority in men.
guns and enthusiasm prevented KurO-
patkin's resisting longer at Lao Yang
Or achieving at Yentai victory which
would have obliged the Japanese to
fall back The Japanese will shortly
trimuphantly enter Mukden.
1.-THE Russian general staff now es-
Inmates the Japanes force at from
$50 900 to 500 900. The Russian army
will reconcentrate in the north, but it
needs several months in order to fiji
up the losses in a number OF corps,
which must be doubled, and to replace
reservists by active troops. Above all
| it is essential to restore the morale,
| affected by almost unprecedented
trials and difficulties. A Russian of
fensive movement will be impossible
| for long time. nVf
London, Sept 14.-The Daily Nails
correspondent at Chez Foo reports
that 100000 Chinese coolies are en-
gagged upon Japanese entrenchments
! between Dalny and Port Arthur.
From Toxic the correspondent OF
the Standard telegraphs that the Chi
nese government is becoming uneasy
over the fate of Manchuria. An un-
confirmed report, he says, is current
! that WI Ting Fang, the Chinese as
sistant foreign minister will leave
Peking shortly on a special mission to
Europe and America on the Man.
! churia question.
Bennett Burleigh, cabling from Tien
Tsin to the Daily Telegraph, still in
sists that the Japanese casualties in
the battle of Lao Yang were nearer
10000 than $4,000. ->Nat
New York. Sept. 15.-Inactivity Of
the opposing armies of Russia and
Japan continues, and no fighting of a
general character is reported. Infor-
nation, coming from an authoritative
| OOulNC Ol. 3, 10 lAdI llO
Russians will winter at Harbin, but
the fact that there probably will be
two months of good weather, for mill
tary operations before the extreme
cold weather sets in, leaves room for
revision of this purpose in the light
of events that many transpire. The
Japanese are reported to be collecting
fnx 9Th .I,0o. ,;e,kO Orf,,~~ of
fairs in Manchuria, as though that
country were conquered territory. The
publication of Gen. Kuropatkin's re-
port of the fighting from August 26
until the retreat upon Mukden, has
created bitter feeling in ST Peters
burg.
The report distinctly places upon
Gen. Orloff the responsibility for tie
failure to hold the heights in the VII
cinity of Sykwantun, and so check the
Japanese advance.
London, Sept. 15.-The Daily Nails
correspondent with Gen. Kuropatkin
writes under date of September 8, an
interesting analysis of Russian STRAIT
egy to the eve of the battle of Lao
Yang, bestowing the highest praise
upon Kuropatkin's skilful handling and
withdrawal of the weak, scattered
Russian forces without demoraliza-
tion. The correspondent says:
1T is too early as yet to speak of
the appalling and almost inconceiv-
able difficulties that faced Kuropatkin
during the first campaign. Some day
it will be known how many, or. rather,
how few troops, he had when he or.
rived in Manchuria and what proper.
tion, or, rather disproportion, were
keen, ardent young soldiers of Rus.
sia. Russian will know how far ST
bcrian levies were equipped and quail
fled for the task they had to perform,
and when the facts are known, the
world will realize the enormous re-
sponsibility cast upon this silent, reso-
lutte man, and with what strength, ST.
1ence and resolution he faced and
conquered it,
Paris, Sept. 15.-The Journals ST
Petersburg correspondent says: "A
very high parsonage informs me that
the emperor has received a repor;
from Lieut.. Gen. Stossell to the effect
that the situation at Port Arthur is
most critical. For a week there has
been no meat, and only a small quan
tity of flour, while the ammunition
there is not sufficient for a long re
Eistance. Everything is prepared fol
the flowing up of the Notifications in
the event of q successful Japanese as
sault."