New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-10-26
FIGHT IS STOPPED
By BAD weather
OPPOSING ARMIES IN MANCHU-
RIA ARE GIVEN A MUCH
NEEDED REST.
Battle Ragged for Ten Days and Was
Worst of War-Losses Enormous
The Victory of the Japs Was
Undecisive.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 2O.-Ihere has Deen
an end, for the time being, of the fight
ing on large scale which began when,
Dn October 9, Gen. Kuropatkin announced
to his army that the time had arrived
for an advance against the Japanese.
Heavy rains and consequent bad roads
have made military operations on either
side extremely difficult, if not impossi-
BILE. The interruption, according to adj
vices received at St. Petersburg, is being
utilized by both the Russian and Jap
anese commanders in making new dispo-
sitions of forces, and new objective
points are likely to develop when active
operations are resumed. Practically,
last weeks battle has ended, and it goes
into history as a Russian defeat. When
operations are resumed new battle
will begin.
Storming Of Lone Tree Hill.
The storming of the Lone Tree hill
for valor and slaughter will occupy a
place by itself in military annals. The
hill is a precipitous rocky height, and
although the Japanese had occupied 1t
only short time they had thrown up
very strong defenses The river running
at its foot increased the difficulty of the
task, but it was scaled and carried sue
cessfully against the unprecedented op-
position of a Japanese division, $4,000
men, with many guns. The Russian
losses were terrible. The fighting on the
crest of the hill was altogether with cold
steel. The Russian officers, with swords
aloft leading the scaling column, were
literally lifted in the air by the japanese
bayonets and the Japanese then boyo.
neted the first of the Russian soldiers
who piled in the trenches All the deac
in the trenches were bayoneted, theil
weapons bearing the marks of the dread.
full combat.
Losses Enormous.
Toxic Oct. -Manchurian head.
quarters, reporting by telegraph, says
that the number of Russian dead found
on the battlefield and inferred up tt
October % makes total of 10 500. Upo1
this total Russian casualties are est
mated to exceed 10000 The japanese
captured a total of As guns during tn,
Shake operations.
Hardin, Oct. 24-More than 90 00t
wounded Russian soldiers have arrived
here and are being tended with thu
greatest care. Every available hand ha
been set to work in the making of 40, 00'
shirts for the wounded.
The Rival Armies.
London, Oct. $50 far as the dis
patches from the far east show, Their
has been no change in the relative posi-
tons of the hostile armies confronting
each other on the line Of the Shakh
river. There is an unconfrmed repor
that Russian force of 10000 men ha
been concentrated at Kauta pass 20 mile
northeast Of Liaoyang, which may
indicative of the direction in which Ger
Kuropatkin is likely to strike his mex
blow. Upwards of 10000 of the RUSSIA
soldiers wounded in the battle Of tn
Shakhe have reached Hardin. Col
weather is causing suffering to tn
armies in the field, although it ha
wrought an improvement in the condi
| lions for the movement of troops. A re
port has reached ST. Petersburg, bu
lacks confirmation, that the Port Al
? thur fleet has left its anchorage in tn
!. harbor and has taken up a position
t the roadstead.