Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-20
THE TWO STORIES
As Given Out from the Japanese anc'
Russian Headquarters.

ueadnuaIters Of Gen. Oku'S Army az
the Front, Oct. 1I.-3 p. M.-Nia Flu
San. oct 19-The Japanese advance Is
10 miles south Of Mukden, The Rus
SLAMS have built heavy defences two
miles south of the Hun river, whore
they are expected to make a stand.
There are no natural defenccs az thilt
point.
The Japanese report that the battle
has been the nest severe yet fought.
=. ON the plains. where the Russian forces
consisted of the LIST Army Corps ana
the 5th and 9Th Siberian Corps. the
,nIy defences were infantry trenches,
which were hastily made.
Mans captured by the japanese show
that the Russians had arranged for a
feries Of retreats and these maps irdi-
Gated where stands We're to be made
This accounts for the slCwneSS of the
s,lvarcc OF the japanese and their fail
ure 10 cut off the Russian retreat,
Which was conducted will. great skill.
Rtviues AMI gullies met with by the
Japanese obstruCt1d the advance. The
cavalry on the left CT 'ssed the Hun
river and prevented a Russian thanking
movement.
Thu right ana center armies held
their lines all through the battle, work.
ing forward at the cane time.
The Russian force which attacked
the right flank of the right army We're
driven hack to the eastward.
At last accounts the whole Japanese
force now holds a line Il miles to the
north. wher, the armies are retreatlng.
With the Russian Center Army. Oct.
1S.-Ry Courier to Mukdcn, via Pekin'
oct l9-The fighting which lulled Tor a
time oct Il. was renewed, Oct. 10
when the Russians holding positions
III the north bank of the Shakhe river
rrtinuaIly exchanged an artillery fire
e IN the Jananese.
The hardest fighting was in the cen
l-r. where two regiments OF RussEir
infantry made a desperate attack or
the night of oct. IL. capturing two Jap
ancsr batteries of eight guns each. II
was an expensive undertaking, how
ever. as the Russians lost grea
many men, The colonel commanding
was dangerously wounded. The Jap
aucse were compelled to destroy thcil
ammunition. The fighting all that nigh
was most severe. both sides SUFFERING
heavily. During the progress of the in
fantry fight the artillery kept up 3
bombar,lment.
On the morning Of Oct II. the Russian
center held positions l. miles south q
Mukdcn on the main wagon road. Will
the left had fallen farther back to tn
northwest. Just before noon. the Japa
nese guns found the main road and a vii
lage shclling them with shrapncl an
Shimns powder contact shells but Will
out doing any great damage.
Toward evening the battle mllcd. h'
during the night the Russian center mao
two combined infantry and artillery at
tacks which resulted in the securing ~
new positions about half mile in ~
vance.
These attacks were made during
dGwnpour of rain and Were successful i
giving the Russians possession of a stna
stretch of the ground over when tht
retired, last week.
Today, a long line Of wounded is ben
taken to the hospitals at Mul<den. throug
"A cold and driZZing rain and over a rud
which is covered with mud knee deep,
The Japanese. today. confined them
selves to throwing occasional NolleNS a
shrapnel at the Russian batteries whic
kept up continual bomhardment.
While the battle still continues. 1t is
small affair compared with that of las
week. The fighting now is entirely on tn
plain
The japanese apparently are Satishe
with having stopped the Russian adva nc
and with having brought their own lire
to the Shakhe river.