The Worthington advance. [volume] (Worthington, Minn.) 1874-1908, 1904-10-28
FIGHT IS STOPPED
BY. BAD WEATHER
OPPOSING ARMIES IN MANCHU.
RIA ARE GIVEN A MUCH
NEEDED REST.
Battle Ragged for Ten Days and Was
Worst Of Warehouses Enormous
The Victory Of the Japs Was
Undecisive.

st. Petersburg, Oct. 20.-There has been
an end. for the time being, of the fight
ing on large scale which began when,
on October 9, Gen. Kuropatkin announced
to his army that the time had arrived
for an advance against the Japanese.
Heavy rains and consequent bad roads
have made military operations on either
side extremely difficult. If not impossi-
BILE. The interruption, according to adj
vices received at St. Petersburg, is being
utilized by both the Russian and jap
anese commanders In making new dispo-
sitions Of forces, and new objective
points are likely to develop when active
operations are resumed. Practically,
last weeks battle has ended, and it goes
into history as Russian defeat. When
operations are resumed a new battle
will begin.
Storming Of Lone Tree Hill.
The storming Of the Lone Tree hill
for valor and slaughter will occupy q
place by itself in military annals. The
hill is a precipitous rocky height, and
although the Japanese had occupied It
only short time they had thrown up
very strong defenses. The river running
at its foot increased the difficulty of the
task. but 1t was scaled and carried sue
cessfully against the unprecedented op-
position of Japanese division, $4,000
men, with many guns. The Russian
losses were terrible The fighting on the
crest of the hill was altogether with cold
steel. The Russian officers, with swords
aloft leading the scaling column, were
literally lifted in the air by the Japanese
bayonets and the Japanese then boyo-
neted the first Of the Russian soldiers
who piled in the trenches. All the dead
in the trenches were bayoneted, their
weapons bearing the marks Of the dread
full combat:
Losses Enormous.
Toxic, Oct. 24.-Manchurian head
quarters, reporting by telegraph, says
that the number of Russian dead found
on the battlefield and inferred up to
October % makes total of 10, $780, Upon
this total Russian casualties are esti-
mated to exceed 10000. The Japanese
captured q total Of As guns during the
Shake operations
Hardin, Oct. 24.-More than 10000
wounded Russian soldiers have arrived
here and are being tended with the
greatest care. Every available hand has
been set to work in the making of 10000
shirts for the wounded.
The Rival Armies.
London, Oct. $3.50 far as the dis
patches from the far east show, there
has been no change in the relative posi-
lions of the hostile armies confronting
each other on the line Of the Shakhe
river. There is an unconflrmed report
that Russian force of 10000 men has
been concentrated at Kauta pass 20 miles
northeast of Liaoyang, which may be
indicative of the direction in which Gen.
Kuropatkin is likely to strike his next
blow. Upwards Of 10000 Of the Russian
soldiers wounded in the battle Of the
shakhe have reached Hardin. Cold
weather is causing, suffering to the
armies in the field, although it has
wrought an improvement in the condi-
lions for the movement Of troops. Are
port has reached st. Petersburg, but
lacks confirmation. that the Port Ar
thur feet has left its anchorage in the
harbor and has taken up a position in
the roadstead.