Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-08-31
ATTACKS LIAOYANC.
General Kuropatkin Gives Battle With 18O,OoO Men.
HOLDS FATE OF RUSSIAN ARMS.
The Japanese Opened With & Rain of Shrapne1 Which Swept the Entire Russian FrOnt-Mukden
 ReuOrts ssy .JaDanese RepuIse.

LONDON, Aug. 31-Advices from Tokyo say that with 24O,ooO men Gen. erals Kuroki, Oku and Nodzu are pressing their attack on Liaoyang, where General Kuropatkin is strongly fortified with an army of 1So,0OO men.
 The battle that has developed and still continues is the greatest of the war, and upon its result practically depends the fate of the Russian arms.
 The fortunes of war are still un- decided, but the latest reports declare that the initial onslaughts of the legions of Japan were beaten back.
 Every attempt to turn the Russian flank was repulsed, it is said, and the loss is reported to be extremely heavy Dn both sides.
 At Port Arthur desperate assaults have been made upon the fortress, Japanese delivering five successive at tacks, in each of which the men were hurled back, though they twice pene- trated the Notifications and were im- paled on Russian bayonets.
 At 5 o'clock in the morning the mikado's troops, moved by the knowl- edge that it was the anniversary of the mikado's birth, opened their as- sault with a rain of shrapnel which swept the entire Russian front. Under cover of the heaviest kind of cannon Rding, so fierce that the hills appeared, ablaze and the individual detonations of the guns could not be distinguished, Fo, oIxyonond
 Tn four hours they were close upon the Russian line. On the west it was reported that the Russian cavalry had checked the forward movement, but on the south, where the fighting was 6ercest, they came into hand to hand conflict with the Russians, and bayonet charges resulted. The Russian losses have been heavy.
 From an early hour the wounded have been pouring in steady stream Into the city.
 1t is estimated that more than half million men are engaged in the | battle
 A late dispatch from Liaoyang says that Russian correspondent has SUD- I piled the following:
 "The historical moment has arrived, and the battle of Liaoyang is in prog ress.
 Ut was not o'clock in the morning when the first gun was fired, but soon afterward hundreds of cannon were laundering along our southern and eastern fronts.
 "The center of our position is locat- ! al foy tcxx 1f n cr about seven miles to the southeast. The fighting there is of the most des- perate character.
 "We are asking ourselves if the tide of battle is going to swamp the city l will it be destroyed by the Japanese?' A dispatch from Mukden says that in the stubbornly fought battle which has been in progress near Liaoyang all attempts of the Japanese to turn the Russian flank have been repulsed It is said at Mukden that the Japa- nese lost over ten guns, but details had not yet been received. l The Japanese have 1,200 guns neal Liaoyang.
 Through mists and haze all three of the Japanese columns moved for ward. The Russians resisted this ad vance vigorously, and it was nightfal before the Japanese were in possession of the long ridge of Hungshaling. The most fierce engagements occurred al Hungshaling and Kungchangling. 1 The moonlight revealed the Japanese troops as they advanced. The Russian defenders of these positions, besides opening fierce rife fire on the en emy, rolled powders down the hillside upon ther climbing Japanese soldiers The Japanese reserved their fire anC climbed steadily upward, finally reach ing the summit and driving the Rus sians out.
 The main force retreated toward Liaoyang. The Japanese casualties fl this fighting number about 2,O00
 The Japanese army which operated against Anshanshan has advanced along the Haicheng Liaoyang road clearing away small forces of Rus Bians. The Japanese line is extended from Shanghihichfatzo to the west O. Sumati. The Japanese pursued the en emy and overlook them east of thu road in the neighborhood of Tiaochun | tdI, LdSu1uLdO dn0 EdhudhOu dllu dl tacked vigorously. The, column O infantry and artillery, which pursued the Russians on the west side of th' Haicheng- -Liaoyang road, overlook thu main body of the enemy as it was re tiring to the northwest and drove also toward North Shaho. 1zt a5.
 In these engagements the Japanes captured eight guns and a number O ammunition and commissary wagons
 A Chefu report says: "All is quiet ol the eastern front of Port Arthur's for tifcations. The guns on Quail hill ant the shore batteries successfully bonn barded the enemy on the western front The Japanese have occupied the quaT antine station at the village of Dayan gow The battleship Sevastopol wen ) out to Lombard the enemy in Tah bay, but withdrew under cover of tn
 batteries upon the appearance of tn IL