The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1904-10-19
NOW IN A TRAP
KURoPATKIN IS CUT OFF
WITH FOUR DIVISIONS.
Kuroki Credited with Great Victo.
ry-Oyama Rushes to the Scene
Russian Losses Placed at
90 15,000-Japs Will Deal
Crushing Blow.

Crushing Blow.
Toxic, Oct. 15.. .Noon.xG Generai
Oku captured 10 additional guns
yesterday. Heavy fighting contin-
fues. K. -@.st .t.'s
| Liao Yang, Oct. 15.-This city
is in turmoil Of excitement over
the reports brought in by wounded
soldiers from the right wing of the
Japanese army that General Kuro.
XII has caught General Kuropatkin
in a trap, having cut him off with
four Russian divisions which be at
tempted to save, and now has the
Russian commander isolated and
.enveloped east of Bensihu. The
general engagement continued all
day yesterday. Russian losses 90
far are estimated at $1,000. The
Japanese have also suffered heavily
but no figures are available.
The bearers of the news of the
latest Japanese victory state that
Field Marshal Marquis Oyama has
ordered vast masses of reinforce.
ments to the assistance of General
Kuroki to enable him to executethe
coup as planned. .
General Kuroki is pushing the
Russian divisions eastward in order
to make their isolation complete
and to preclude the possibility of
Russian reinforcements reaching
them.
The japanese are fortifying their
positions to the north. Another of
: General Kuroki's columns today
captured the Shaotakan hills to the
: south of Bsntsiaputze after series
of fierce enga gements, in which 1 p
90 Japenese and 1900 Russians fell.
An entire battery was captured
and now the hills, which may be
called the key to the Russian left
advance, are in the hands of the
Japanese.
; The Japanese were driven back
five times and hundreds fell in the
trenches without baing able to de-
liver one telling blow. ultimately
however, daring eide attack was
delivered by two regiments while
! the rest of the force renewed its ad
vance upon the entertainments, anc
: in the face of a withering fire stor m
ed the Russian positions. Th'
I slaughter was frightiul, the Rus
I SLAMS resisting the onslaught hero
ically until virtually driven to pre-
cipitate retreat. japanese guns ar
now being mounted on the hills
and several email detachmepts hav,
! been ordered to- occupy the posi-
y tions. They will probably be mad
the base of one of the reserve force
\ which is being brought from to
& south. General Kuroki's total los
x ses i'll the battle Of Shaotakan hill
% and the engagements near Bensih
are estimated at 5000.
: A crushing defeat has been ad
ministered. to the Russian right b
General Oku at Yentai. The entir
Russian lines, extending from th
Hun river to the railroad, wer
driven back 90 miles with terribl
losses on both sides, and but fo
the awful punishment received b
the Japanese, General Kuropatkin'
fright would have been completed
crushed. AS it is, the flank is ut
terry disorganized and the Russian
commanders endeavoring to rail-
their forces northeast of Changtan
The losses inflicted upon Genera
Oku have not yet been estimated
His complete victory came after i
Russian attacks had been repulsed
The battle extended over territor
four miles from the west to th
east and six miles from the soutl
to the north. The Russians ha,
110 guns in action, keeping up
terrific fire during the attacks
The Japanese guns numbered onl
= go, but the fact that the Russian
= were advancing with utter disregar,
+ of the cost of life afforded the Jap
I anese the opportunity to direct th
! fire. with deadly effect.
/ It was, evidently the purpose Z
{ the Russians not only to checl
$ Japanese progress to the heart, bu
( to break through the Japanese line
I land gain possession of the easter
! shore of the Hun river, whenc
/ they could have proceeded to
{ point at the rear of General Nodz
& and the center army. The fifteent
( and sixteenth Russian attacks wer
/ ionly desultory and their repuls
1 was followed by the advance Of th