New Ulm review. (New Ulm, Brown County, Minn.) 1892-1961, 1904-09-28
OYAMA Receiving
REINFORCEMENTS
JAPANESE GENERAL DELIBER-
ATELY PREPARING FOR AD-
VANCE ON MUKDEN.
HE WILL RESORT TO
THANKING TACTICS

Several skirmishes Already Reported
Water Supply of Port Arthur
Cut OFF Manchurian Army Is
Reorganized.
St. Petersburg, Sept 27.-The cause
of the extreme elaboration in the Jap
anese advance on Mukden was eX-s
planned by dispatch from Gen. kuro-
patkin Monday forenoon, which indi-
Gates that Field Marshal Oyama has
not yet concentrated his forces. Fresh
troops are constantly arriving at Ben
tsiaputze, while others, which recently
reached Liaoyang. are marching up the
Taitse river to Sianchan. These re-
Inducements presumably come from
Japan. AS soon as the Fourth Japan
csc army at Sianchan is sufficiently
strong, it is now evident, the Japanese
intend to resort to their favorite flank
ing tactics, move formidable array
against Kuropatkin's left and compel
the evacuation of Sintsintin. They are
evidently accommodating the ground
over which the Sianchan army will
march up and cross the river. Mean
while Gen. Kuroki is trying to seize
and cross the Hun river far east of
Mukden. Thence he will move down
the river and cooperate with the
Fourth from Sianchan, while Gems.
Oku and Nodzu engage Kuropatkin's
attention south of Mukden. The at
tacks on Da pass and Sanlungku Sep
TENDER 20 were the first symptoms Of
this vast f1anking movement.
Kuropatkin now reports that Japan
csc scouts have been encountered near
the Hun river, half way to Mukden,
| trying to seize Kaoutou pass, ten miles
northeast of Bentsiaputze, in order to
clear the way to F'ushun, and that
| Oku's and NOdzu's outposts have been
engaged in skirmishing with Cossacks
| near Inpu, between Bentsiaputze and
| the railroad.
Advance Is Begun.
| ST. Petersburg, Sept. PA dispatch
has been received from Gen. Kuropat-
kin, announcing that the Japanese are
preparing an extensive turning move
, ment east of Mukden. A large force
is advancing from Liaoyang, by way
| of Taiche, to Sianchan. Skirmishes
have occurred in the valley of the Hun
| river, and at Inpu, between Bentsia-
putze and the railroad. There were
many casualties at Inpu.
Jap Advance Guard Repulsed
Gen. Sakharoff, in a dispatch dated
| Sunday, telegraphs that the Japanese
| advance guard during the last few
days attempted to occupy Kaoutou
pass, commanding the road to Fushun
but was repulsed by detachment OF
! the Russian advance guard. On the
south front all is quiet, though shots
are exchanged daily and skirmishes
occur between the advance posts.
Manchurian Army Reorganized.
St. Petersburg, Sept. 27.-The d.
vision and reorganization of the Man
| churian army, regarding which there
/ have been rumors ever since the battle
of Liaoyang, was officially announced
! Sunday in an imperial rescript ap-
pointing Maj. Gen. Grippenberg, com
mander of the Third army corps in the
province of Wilma, as commander OF
the second army now being modified
for immediate dispatch to the far east
| leaving Gen. Kuropatkin in command
of the first army The emperor is per-
sonally convinced that the political az
well as the military prestige of the
empire is at stake and that every
| other consideration must give way be-
fore the exigencies of war. The re-
sources of the empire in men anC
money must be drained, if necessary
in order to turn the scale and vindi
cate the power Of Russia The reor
ganizatiOn amounts to formal notice tx
the world, as the emperor frankly ex
to vastly increase the number of troop!
at the theater of war in order to fore,
the struggle to a successful issue il
the shortest possible time
The reorganization of Russia's force
in the far east by the appointment o
! Gen. Grippenberg to command the Sec
ond army has been received with mucl
satisfaction by the press.
viii Fight Out the Issue.
1t is intended to silence definitely al
talk of foreign Intervention by the an
nouncement that Russia means t.
fight out the issue with Japan on tn
field of battle. Probably 100000 add
tional men will be placed in the field
Five corps, the Third, Fourth, Fifth
Eighth and Sixteenth are already des
tined for the front, and the talk is tina
Il five more corps will be sent forward
Eventually the creation of this secon
army involves the selection of a com
mander-in-chief. Not only is there n
intimation in the rescript that Ger
Kuropatkin will have command @
both armies, but he is distinctly place
upon the same footing as Gen. Grip
penberg. In the best informed circle
there is little idea that Viceroy Alex
Jeff, the present nominal commander