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KUROPATNN FALLS BACK
Russian Troops Again Retire Before
Enemy's Advance.
laps CLOSING ON LIAU YANG

After Days and Nights Of Severe Fighting
the Cars Northern Army is Compelled
to Withdraw Before the Mikado's
Forces-The Latter's Artillery Does Re-
fiau Yang.-The Japanese armies ap-
o~arently combined under the command
Of Marshal Oyama have succeeded in
driving in the Russian columns of the
east and southeast with considerable
loss. General Kuroki's divisions de-
feated the Russians in detail III the
mountains, and wounded Russian OH
GERS now being brought into Liau
Yang have nothing but praise for the
Japanese ability and ralor. lncom'
olete details only are at hand as to the
battle at night. participated in 10y Cen
eral Kuroki's central division, but it is
certain that after his guns had 81
fenced several of the batteries under
General Ivanhoff. the Japanese Impe-
rial Guard and the regiments of the
Second brigade made a night charge,
in which they rushed General Herself
elman's brigade in a bayonet fight on
the hills leading toward Anping.
This developed into a rout before
dawn, and it is feared that General
HerSchelman's regiment lost III all
nearly 1000 men. Many of his ot1cers
were the last to retreat, and several OF
these. dead or wounded, have been
brought in. The rapid advance OF the
Japanese at night across a succession
Of mountain defles and a rolling valley
was wholly unexpected. 1t was De-
lieyed that their main attack would De
further south. General H~erschelman
ATTEMPTED to defend a position nearly
FIVE miles long with a brigade and q
half. and was overwhelmed by six reg
iments of japanese infantry. WHO
stormed the ~plateaus in the face OF
artillery fire and used their bayonetS
in a hand-to-hand fight that lasted
three hours.
The Russian loss to the southeast
was not by any means so great. but
while the left wing of General kuro'
patkin was holding the hills and the
valley north of the Thu River, soutp
of Anshan, it was found that the Jap
anese were making a turning move.
ment which would eventually cut on
the southern division of the Russian
army. This compelled a rapid retreat
at night on the hills back of Anshan,
during which period the Russian sol
diers were subjected to a fierce ar
tillery fire from the south and south
east, the Japanese bringing their light
artillery into action with great rapid
ity.
The losses on the extreme south of
the Anshan position are more than
400, and ambulance trains coming in
from the southeast report that at
Changlingtsz the Japanese during an
infantry charge on the First Siberian
brigade suddenly uncovered two bat.
teries, which forced the rapid retire.
ment of the Russians. covered by Rus
sian artillery to some extent. The
losses were 800, and four guns had tc
be left behind. These. however, wers
rendered useless before they We're
abandoned. Several of the Russians il
the forward trenches at ChanglingtS1
undoubtedly were made prisoners.
The southern army is To- encamped
on the heights back of Anshan, and
the Japanese on the south and south.
EAST have ceased their advance. The
total losses of the southern division il
the three days fighting must have
been more than 1000, as there are TOO
wounded north of Anshan in the rail
way ambulance trains.