The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1904-09-08
The City of LiaO Yang Fell Com.
pletely Into Their Hands
Sunday Morning.
FIERCE FIGHTING IS GOING ON.
Gen. kuropa,kins Army is Ten Miles
Northeast of Liao Yang Near
the Yantai Mines.
Gen. stakeIbers's Army Corps Report.
ed to Be Cut OF, Has Been Safely
ExtrIcated, and viii Join
Main Army.

New York, Sept. 2.-Thursday's
news from the seat of war closed with
the receipt of two dispatches. giving
information of most significant
character as bearing on the domna
tion of Manchuria at the close of the
present campaign.
The first came from the press cor.
respondent at st. Petersburg, filed
there at 1916 p. m, and said that
Gen. Kuropatliin had withdrawn his
whole army to the north bank of the
Taitse river, so as to meet Gen. Ku.
rokfs fanling movement. The in.
ference drawn from this dispatch was
that I.iao Yang had been evacuated,
that city lying on the left or south
bank of the river.
New York. Sept. 3.-The lack of def.
mite information from the seat of war
continues up to Saturday morning and
nothing further regarding the situa.
tton at Lao Yang is known beyond
the fact that Kuropatkin has with.
drawn the main portion of his forces
to the north of right bank of the
| Taitse river and that, according to
the latest advices, the action is still
in progress.
! Dispatches from both Russian and
Japanese sources indicate that the
troops on both sides are iaded and
weary after the many days fighting.
and II is pointed out that in conse.
qucnce temporary lull in the active
struggle would not be surprising
A dispatch received at Toxic says
that great fires are raging at Lao
Yang, believed to result from Japanese
shelling or from the efforts of the
Russians TO destroy their stores prep
aratory to the evacuation of Lao Yang
with the additional hope of injurng
the city as future Japanese base.
The opinion prevails in the Japanese
capital that the Russian casualties in
the recent fighting will reach 10000,
while the Russian losses of August I'll
and September ] are given in official
reports as 5000 killed or wounded.
New York Sept 5.-The only di.
rect news from the seat of war bear.
ing Sundays date came by way of
Toxic is report from Field Marshal
Oyama, saying that Liao Yang fell
completely into the hands of the Japa-
nese' at o'clock that morning; that
the Japanese casualties were believed
10 be heavy. and that nothing was
known by the Japanese concerning af.
fairs on the right bank of the Taitse
river.
The only comfort for the Russians
at home was the news. conveyed in a
report from Gen. Kuropatliin, dated
Saturday afternoon, that Gen. Stake- !
berg's First Siberian army corps of
10000 men, reported Saturday as hav-
ing been cut off to the westward of |
Liao Yang. had been safely extricated, |
and that the corps has succeeded in !
Joining the main Russian body on the |
right bank Of the river, but no details |
OF the escape of Stakelberg are |
known. Gen. Kuropatkin also report
ed that the greater portion of his army
was. at the time Of filing the report.
south of Yentai (ten miles northeast
OF Liao Yang) and few miles from
the fantai mines, where fierce fight.
Ing had been in progress
1t is indicated that there has been
a cessation of the fierce fighting. Ku.
ropatkin reports that his men were
not being much interefered with by
the Japanese in the neighborhood of
his army.
u was reported In st. Petersburg
night that Kuropatsih had ar.
rived at Tiehling, which is ten miles
north Of Yentai and IL miles south
Of Mukden.
London, Sept 5-The Che Foo cor
respondent of the Daily Chronicle, in a
dispatch dated September 3, says that
II regiments will leave Toxic during
the week TO replace the men lost out
side Port Arthur alone, The losses
Bt this point are estimated at $4,000.
The details of the tragic struggle
between Oyama's and Kuropatkins
forces do not deter British critics from
repeating the vital question, HAS Ku
made good his retreat ?"
with all the official news before them,
The experts here seem half inclined to
believe that the Russian commander
has achieved what was thought 10 be
The impossible, namely headed off an I
1
That the Japanese. with superior
numbers and the choice of time for
aggression, would infiict severe losses,
vas taken for granted. The occupation I
" Liao Yang with enormous Russian {
and the evacuation of for {
ified positions, are regarded here as
merely incident Though 1t is recog
lized that the weeks battle which
hey fought must take its place as one
u the bloodiest in ancient or modern
history. yet II Kuropatkin reaches Q
with potential remnant OF !
lis army, Oyama's effort will, in Eng
ish eyes. be regarded more or less
IS fruitless sacrifice