New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-11-30
FOUR DAYS ACTION ENDS.
Kuropathin Reports $50 japanese
Bodies Left on Field.

Moukden, Nov. 29.-No important change has
taken place in the situation. There are occa-
sional skirmishes. along the right and centre.
The japanese have been feeling out the Russian
strength on the extreme left, resulting in four
days fighting, with the japanese retiring.
A japanese cavaIryman' who has been capt
ured by the Russians declares that General
Kuroli is not dead.
With the Russian Forces at Shing- King. Nov.
29.-The fight of the japanese with General Rem
nenkampf's Cossacks. which began on November
"a ended at 6 p. November 2S. The Jap
anese. who were repulsed. never approached
nearer -han 600 yards During a snowstorm at
midday IN the 2Sth the japanese tried to out
flank taA Russian right but the rifles and four
guns foreed them to retire. The Russian losses
were smaE
On Noverber q Russian scouts captured
Nangan-Tze village, and held it twenty minutes
while sappers blew up large stone house
which had served as a fortress from which the
Japanese SHIPPED Russian outposts
ST Petersburg, Nov. 29-The following dis
patch has been received from General Kuropat-
kin, dated November 2S:
The engagement near Tsinkhetchen Q1ear Da
Pass, resumed to-day, but ceased at IL
a. m We have collected and buried the Jap
anese dead. BY midday we had found go bodies:
-
the Ninth Reserve Brigade We took a large
quantity of rifles. ammunition and intrenching
tools
General sakharof telegraphs under to-day's
GATE that the night passed quietly.
According to information which has reached
the War Office Field Marshal Oyama's forces
are much smaller than heretofore believed.
tending to confirm the theory that large body
has been withdrawn to assist in storrning Port
Arthur The information is to the effect that
not much more than hundred and fifty
thousand are now confronting General
Kuropatkin. but the Japanese lines are heavily
fortified, in order to check aggressive move
rnent long enough to enable the japanese TO
hurry up reinforcements by rail from the
Peninsula The activity of the Japanese along
the front is believed to be only a feint TO con-
vince Kuropatkin that Oyama IS about 10 take
the offensive. Should this intelligence be con-
hrrned. it is possible that the Russian COM
mander in chief may attempt TO strike quick
blow. KuropatlIin is supposed to have nearly
three hundred thousand men.
TOXIC. Nov 29-The imperial headquarters to-
day summarized the Menchurian situation in
the following statement:
On the evening Of November q the enemy
made a duh bombardment against Santao-
Kun-Tsu, and the enenlys infantry from $50
O'Clock attempted night attack which was re
pulsed at $50 o'clock. In the attack the
enemys InortaTs in the neghborhood Of Wei
-Lou-Tsu bombarded Santao-kun-Tsu,
Kan-Chia-Wo-Tsu and their vicinities, but did
not injure
From sunset November 81 the enemys NOR
tars and field guns west Of the railroad bonn
barded necessarily the neghborhood of Ku-
Chia-Tsu. simultaneously the enemy's infantry
occupied a village northwest Of Nan-Kuan-Tsu
and fired in the direction of o-Chia-Fu, which
is north Of Ku-Chia-Tsu. The firing quieted at
$50
The same evening at 1910. the enemy's in
fsntry west Of the railroad, the right bank
Of the Shakhe River and northward of Sim
Chin-Pu. fired al US desultory, and ceased firing
at II 30
There have been several skirTnishes between
scouting parties. In other respects the situa-
ficn is unchanged.