Mexico Missouri message. (Mexico, Audrain County, Mo.) 1899-1918, 1904-10-27
RUSSIANS PUSH
JAPANESE BACK
News More Rssssurlns from the Rus
sian Standpoint.
No Peace for a While.


st. Petersburg: After a consultation
with the car. Gen. Grippenberg has de-
cided to mobilize 100000 additional
troops for the war. Manchurla will
be abandoned for the present. A Rms
sian note will probably be issued an
nouncing to the powers the cars firm
intention of continuing the war. De
spite the staggering blow Kuropatldn
has received, the car is uncompromis-
ingly militant, and finds none among
his official advisers to counsel peace.
Reiterated by casslni.
Washington: Count Cassini, the Rus
sian ambassador. in a conversation on
monday night, reiterated with great
emphasis what he has already had
occasion to say several times regard
ing the Intervention by the powers OF
conclude the war. There is" he said.
absolutely no opportunity for inter
vention to stop the war. Russia pro-
poses TO prosecute the war to the end,
and all offers of peace at this time
must be rejected"
S.. Petersburg, October IS, BIS a.
m.-The news from the front tonight
is more reassuringg from the Russian
standpoint. The situation is still re-
garded as critical, but Gen. Kuropat-
kin is apparently holding the Japan.
csc firmly on the center anad right
wing. even having re-crossed the Shak-
he river: and while there are rumOrs
of an extensive Japanese flanking
movement both on the east and on the
west, there is no evidence that they
are actually occurring.
Gen. KuropatEdn's left wing has been
heard from. The Associated Press has
the first connected account Of the four
days fight in front Of Tumin and Sal
| Tchoun passes, resulting in the final
withdrawal of the strong Russian col
umn which had been sent to turn the
Japanese right, though Gen. MistChen-
ko seems to have actually penetrated
considerable distance inside the Rus
sian lines The report of the opera
tons of the Russian left wing is still
three days old, and since that time no
news has been received from this col
umn. The situation at this date may
be deschibed as follows: Gen. Kuro-
patkin has slightly advanced his cen
ter, reoccupying Shakhe. south OF the
| Shakhe river
Directly behind him. at a distance OF
nine miles. lies the Hun river. and
across the bridges spanning this
stream the Russians must retire in
case they retreat on Mukden. Gen.
Kuropatkin must continue 10 firmly
hold his center and right flank in or
der to prevent the japanese getting
possession of the Hun river bridges.
Thus he will cover the withdrawal
of his apparently beaten west wing.
| There is still considerable uncertainty
| as to the disposition of this left col
umn. Certainly II has not returned TO
Mukaen; whether it is again adYanC-
ing after its first withdrawal Is not
I known. Little hope is expressed that
Kuropatkin will be able TO continue to
| advance.
The four days fight of the eastern
column was of the same desperate
CudIdClGI lldN maj heu tue OpeTdllOuS
| of the center and right wing. A heavy
| Russian column, under such leaders as
Ivanoff. Rennenkampf. Garngross and
| Kondratovitch, repeatedly assaulted
strongly intrenched japanese positions
on heights commanding the passes.
The assaults were largely night work.
The cannonade was so furious that it
was impossible to advance in the light
of day. Finally. on October 10. when
the passes had been actually occupied.
came the order to withdraw. Here
the story of the operations of the east
wing of the Russian army ends.
Vice Admiral Rojestvensky hes been
appointed adjutant to the emperor.
Gen. Grippenbe"g, who has arrived at
St. Petersburg, will go to the front ten
days hence to assume the command of
the second Manchurian army.
Gen. Sakharoff telegraphs that the
Russians yesterday recaptured Lone
Tree hill, south of Shakhe and cap
tured eleven Japanese guns and one
quick.firer. Lone Tree hill is situated
near Shakhe, about three miles east Of
the river. The Shakhe river runs
around its base.