Adams County news. [volume] (Ritzville, Wash.) 1898-1906, 1904-09-07
.RUSS|A'S GENERAL DEFEATED
LIAoYANG IN HANDS OF JAPs-
STORES WERE DESTROYED.
The Hopes Of Russia's Victory Van.
ish-Russian's Idea Of Advantage
Over Japs-Russian Generals at
Loggerheads - Japanese Generals
Make Rapid Advance.

st. Petersburg, Sept. All Russia
will learn tomorrow that General Ku-
ropatkin's army is in full retreat to
the north; that Liaoyang has been
abandoned, the Japanese occupying it.
The hopes of victory raised in Rus
sian breasts by the telegram from the
commander in chief, saying that the
Russians had advanced against Gen.
eral Kuroki on Friday and that an
attack on the Russian right had been
repulsed, proved short lived. General
Kuropatkin had scarcely begun the Of
fensive against General Kuroki's army
when he was compelled by the over
whelming force of the Japanese flank.
ing movement to give up all idea OF
continuing his advance and hurriedly
withdrew in the direction of Mukden
The retreat is the logical conse.
quence of the Russian plan of leading
on and firing out the Japanese at the
successive stations on the road north
ward, thus placing their foe at the con-
stantly growing disadvantage of theil
lengthening lines of communication.
1t is said General Stakelberg erred
in failing to cross the Taitze river
when General Kuropatkin desired that
the whole army should retreat to its
northern bank.
This blunder. it is feared, will in
volve the loss of the whole Of the
First Siberian army corps, consisting
of the First, Second and Sixth rifle di.
visions, the Usuri Cossack brigade, the
First Siberian artillery brigade and a
sapper battalion.
The abandonment of the whole posi-.
ton at Liaoyang involves the loss OF
a great accumulation of stores, though
it is believed that many of these al.
ready had been sent north before the
commencement of fighting. 1t is more
than possible, however, that the Rus
SLAMS destroyed what they could not
remove.
All Russians now realize that there
is small hope now for the relief OF
Port Arthur, but the military officials
are unanimous in the belief that ii
would only be folly for General EURO
patkin to remain and run the risk OF
being surrounded, when his withdraw.
al north has actually converted what
might have been disaster to himself
into what Is regarded as reverse fol
the Japanese, for the failure to hold
General Kuropatkin's army and infiict
a decisive blow, it is claimed, can not
be regarded otherwise than a reverse
Field Marshal Oyama's tenacious from
tai attack and the clever flank move
ment could not have had any other
object than to compel the Russians to
accept decisive engagement.
Toxic, Sept. 4.-Field Marshal Oya
ma reports that the Russians burned
their store houses near Liaoyang, Sat
urday. General Kuroki; leaving q
force at Satzuago to protect his right
flank, has swung sharply westward tc
reach the railway and envelop Lao
yang. Oyama's left and center armies
are still attacking the Russians south
and west of the walls Of Liaoyang.
An early message from Field Mar
shall Oyama says:
1.-THE enemy in front of our left and
center armies continued to retreat on
September 2 to the right bank of the
Taitze river except the portion Of his
forces occupying the defense works
from the south to the northwest OF
Liaoyang, and the heights northeast
Of Nutchang. Our armies are contin
uing the attack. Our right army &C.
cupied, on the morning Of September
2, part of the heights west of Hell
yingtai."
It is officially announced that the Jap
anese forces occupied Liaoyang at 9
o'clock Sunday morning.