Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-10-18
HOLD LAPS IN CHECK
Russian Forces Have Reoc.
 cupied Shakhe.
STORM TRENCHES, CAPTURE GUNS
St. Petersburg Advices Say Kuropat- kin Has Concentrated His Army and Is Firmly Holding
 Back the Enemy.

kin Hns Concentrated His Army and Is Firmly Holding Back the Enemy. LONDON, Oct, 1S.-Advices from St. Petersburg this morning say that the ! news from the front is more rcassur-
 ing from the Russian standpoint. The situation is still regarded as being critical, but General Kuropatkin is ap-
 parently holding the JapAnese firmly
 on his center and right wings, even having recrossed the Shakhe river, and
 while there are rumors of an extensive
 Japanese danking movement both on the east and on the west there is no evidence shat they are actually occur ring.
 General Kuropatkin has slightly ad-
 south of the ShalShe river. Directly
 behind him at distance of nine miles
 lies the Hun river, and across the bridges spanning this stream the Rus
 sians must retire in case they retreat
 on Mukden. General Kuropatkin must
 continue to firmly hold his center and right flank in order to prevent the Jap
 anese getting possession of the Hun river bridges Thus he will cover the withdrawal of his apparently beaten west wing.
 General Kuropatkin is described as calmly conducting operations at the
 front while shells were bursting around
 him.
 Admiral Alexeieff upon hearing sounds of approaching firing ordered q
 special train and hastily retired to Harbin.
 The Red Cross detachment has been ordered to proceed at once to Sacharin. General Linevitch is taking measures to give the Japanese a warm reception upon their proposed visit there.
 A rumor was circulated last night that General Kuroki had been cap tured.
 A dispatch from Copenhagen says
 that twenty-four Russian warships of the Baltic fleet have passed through the great belt, steering north. Soldiers of the Petrovsky, Neuchlet ] and Wilminstrand regiments stormed
 the Japanese trenches at Soukhetung
 and carried them after desperate re
 sistance, capturing ten guns. The Jap anese losses were enormous.
 General Sacharoff telegraphs to St Petersburg that the Russians have re- captured Lonely Tree hill, south of
 Shakhe, and captured eleven Japanese
 guns and one quick frer.
 Lonely Tree hill is situated near
 Shakhe, about three miles west of the
 railroad. The shakhe river runs round it's base. The Japanese seized the hill
 during the night of Oct. 15, overpower- ing the two Russian regiments which
 previously were in possession of 1t.
 Russian re-enforcements were hur- l ried up and early the following morn ing opened sustained artillery fire. Subsequently the Russian infantry
 stormed the hill, and fierce fighting at
 close quarters followed. Numbers of
 Japanese were bayoneted in the
 trenches, and ultimately the defenders ], were driven out.
 ! "sThe fighting did not cease until the morning" General Sacharoff continues.
 "The Japanese defended the hill with
 great stubbornness and accepted bay
 onet attack, in which many of them
 perished Our troops fought valiantly. The losses have not yet been ascer- tained. At the present moment, 8
 o'clock this morning, desultory cam
 nonade is proceeding along the whole of our position. The troops are very ] tired, but they are in splendid spirits. 7" Official reports received by the war office say the battle was resumed at i daybreak, that the Russians still hold l the right bank of the Shakhe river, that the pressure on the Russian left has been relieved and that the contest ! is continuing on the right, where the Japanese are still seeking to break { through the Russian center, evidently { in order to get possession of the rail- I road and cut off the Russian army 1 from Mukden.
 A Mukden report says that the Rus
 sian forces have penetrated the Japa- !; nese center and, it Is reported, captured
 eleven or thirteen guns and 150 pris- 1 oners east of the railway. AtNanother I point during the day the Siberian regi- i ments took twenty four guns. I The Russian operations have been 1 quite successful. The Japanese, after { terrifcally stubborn resistance, were i compelled to retire along their whole 1 line, losing heavily. All the trenches
 carried by the Russians were filled
 with the Japanese dead. Tn one not
 very large trench there were counted
 600 corpses of Japanese. Tn spite of
 their losses the Japanese were un-
 daunted. They have brought up siege l guns and have left no stone unturned < to retain the mastery of the situation. d Every step the Russians, have pushed
 forward has been i'll the face of a
 superb resistance that has cost the
 Russians dear. The Japanese seem to
 be willing to fight until they are ami
 Inflated.
 Today is the tenth day of the battle. l Cassini's Voice Is still For War.
 WASHINGTON, Oct. 1S-Count Cas-
 sini, the Russian ambassador, in con
 versation with. a correspondent last
 night reiterated With great emphasis