Abilene weekly reflector. [volume] (Abilene, Kan.) 1888-1935, 1904-10-20
FACE TO THE FOE.
Kuropatkin has Again Assumed Of
fensive After Seeming Defeat.
TERRIBLE FIGHTING is KEPT UP.
Rides Broken in Hand-tO-Hanu Hat
tles-st. Petersburg Believes
Russian Arms Will mt Last
BE Triumphant.

Mukden, Oct. 19.-It Is reported that
the Russian army is advancing. Rain
is hindering everything. The rivers
are bankfull and the fords are impas-
sable. There are no bridges. Supplies
of all sorts are delayed. Cossacks
brought in captured guns and japanese
wounded prisoners on October H.
Russian soldiers surrounded the pris-
oners and gave them bread and water
and in other ways tried to relieve
their wants. News has just been re-
ceived that the japanese left flank has
been driven back with heavy loss.
Lone Tree hill, won by the Russians
after desperate struggle, was the OBJ
iect of gallant and successful at
tempt at recapture by the Japanese.
In spite of the awful slaughter with
which they had been driven from the
hill, the Japanese returned to the
charge during the night OF October
II, recognizing that the hill was the
key to the position on the southwest
front. Nine regiments participated,
creeping up through the night and de-
livering a furious assault at dawn,
but the hill had been bought too dear
1y by the Russians to relinquish II
and the Japanese were driven back
with terrible slaughter.
The battlefield of Lone Tree hill
presents the most awful spectacle that
can be conceived. Russian and Jap
anese dead are mingled in heaps in
inextricable confusion. The ground Is
strewn with broken rifles that had
been smashed in hand-to-hand fight
ing. Everything seems to have been
utilized as weapons. The Russian
doctors are working heroically on the
slopes of the hill in the attempt to-
save those of the wounded who still
survive, but the Japanese keep up
shipping fire and render the work OF
relief difficult and dangerous
Shakhe station, or what is left OF 1t,
has been recaptured by the Russians,
who will shortly reopen It for railway
traffic with Mukden.
Rejoicing mt st. Petersburg.
st. Petersburg, Oct 19.-There Is
jubllation throughout the city over the
news that Gen. Kuropatkin has rel
sumed the offensive and the holiday,
which began with little heart, closed
brighter. The crowds in the streets
and the Examinations in honor of the
czarevitch's name day gave tinge OF
brilliancy to an evening otherwise de-
pressing, through constant drizzle
of rain.
There Is no official confirmation here
of the report from Toxic that Rus
sian attack on the Japanese right on
October II had been repulsed. If this
report should prove true 1t may in
volve serious consequences for the
Russians who crossed the Shakhe
while the river was fordahle Arcnra-
ing 10 rne ASSOCIATED press MuKden
dispatches the water has since risen
man-high In consequence of heavy
rains, and therefore it will be well nigh
impossible for the Russian army to re-
cross the river, owing to the absence
Of bridges. 1t would be equally diff
cult for the same reason to bring up
supplies and ammunition to enable
Gen. Kuropatkin to follow up the adj
vance. This may explain the state
ment in a Mukden dispatch to the AS
ISOLATED press that the fighting was
siackenine the morning of October IL
ENGLAND is GOBBLING TIBET.
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