The daily silver state. [volume] (Winnemucca, Nev.) 1903-1907, 1904-05-04
REPORTS OF BATTLE
CONFIRMED
Japanese are Believed to
Have Had 10000 Men
i'm Action on ldlu


Toxic, May s.--After six days of
stubborn fghtingq and an admitted
loss of zoo men. the japanese have
captured Chieux Lien Ching, on the
right bank of the Yalu river. regard
ed as the key to the lard situation in
the far east. The Russians. so fa.' as
can he learned. have lost 500 men in
killed and wounded, together with a
number of officers. The fighting was
bitter from tie start. the savs hero.
ically contesting every inch of ground
as they retrealed to the no. tn. Cen
sorship prevented detailed iescrip-
ton Of the battle until after the re-
ceipt of General Kurokfs report,
which was received yesterday.
st. Petersburg. NV s-The .issocia-
Ted Press has obtained from the gem
a al staff an outline Of t..s operations
on the Yalu riyer during the lag,
week.
The Russian forces, inclua.ng the ~
serves, were com posed of General
Kashtilinsky of the lihe Division. Cen
eraI Mistchenko's Cossack outposts and
a b. igade of artillery. the whole being
under the command of General sas-
sulitch.
The japanese forces, the staff be-
leves. approximate 100000 men. of
which four divisions. thirteen eattal.
lens and hfty-six guns were in the
action. The Japanese prepared for
c. TOSSING the river by posting all their
available guns, of which the Russia-.s
cay the ia aaanese had five times mo. e
than they. along tie line facing kuhth
Cheng and Antung and also landea
the Russian. The Russian forces al
Antung and kulien Cheng had mean
while letreated 10 its second line, a
few miles westward.
The whole Russian force engaged
yeste. day folmt d semi-circle. the
he. ns o. which were being g.aduaiy
drawn in p.epaI atory to Ieti. ing 10 a
position further west
1hls was the situation when the
last Russian official reoo. IS were sent
H. a member of the staff informed
the correspondent of the Assocaasea
Psess that the issue ultimately turned.
p obably. upon whether tie oder 70
Withdraw was given at the p4opet
time A slight delay at a critical mo-
ment might have enabled the enemy's
vastly superior a. tillery to concentrate
on the Russian guns. killing horses ana
gunners and compellin. the abandon
ment of the guns. But if SO, Russian
plans VIII not be changed by the acci-
dental losses. Gene. al sassuHtch
would continue lis retreat, contesuns
advance along the Feng Wan Chens
road. which runs through a hilly coun-
try crowded with heights and exactly
suited to Russian tactics.
London.-Baron Hayashi. the Jap
enese minister here. who has been the
recipient of numerous kilograms of
cong. atulatlon ON the Japanese sue.
cesses on the Yalu. especially ON tbs
result of the first setlous nghling, sale
to the Associated Pless:
Il understand though cannot vouca
for the absolute accu acy of the state.
ment, that Russia had only 100 guns in
MdHCnul III. II so HtI 3ftllie4g StiStiS III
has been diminished almost one-thifd-
Hey tight well. thesv Russians. and
Feng Huan Cheng VIII not be taken
without struggle. unless General Ku-
iopatkin again changes his plan OF
campaign. The announcement that
Russia will not contest the crossing OF
the Yalu has proven as we though
to be misleading. Thirty thousand
men is far too large a body for any
gene al TO leave in the face OF an en-
emy II 1t were not intended TO ham
FER his movements. Kuropatkin evil
IDENTIFY meant to make determined re-
sistance but he either underestimate
our strength or disposed his forces N
the belief that we would not venture
en- a f.outal attack"
Hayashi % edicts famine and sick
hess during the war in and a. ounc
Manchuria on account of the failure
Of crops and the inability to bring ir
supplies rapidly enough