The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-09-11

this force was sent. outSin northeast l eriy direction to gain information con. cernine, General Kurokfs movement aTound the Russian's left flank in the direction of the railroad. Genera IStakelberg's movement was of shor' Iduratton and he soon returned to his tline. &9H 1 | General Ivanoft and his. command Twas stationed on General Stakelberg'i lrfsht and facing General Nodzu and tho tJapanese center army. General, Ivan lon had succeeded the late Lieut.. Gen Count Keller to the command of thu
 Russian eastern army. He had remov' ed his headquarters from the village oi
 Tashi, in the middle of the southern plain. to a point within the shelter oi
 leads to Yentai by pontoon bridge across the Taitse River. During the might of the 31st the Tenth Corps
 which had assisted in holding the
 Fengwancheng road against the Jap
 anese, began moving It's transports out
 of the city to the north. l The 17th corps. which had not as yet been in action. and which was being
 held on the north bank of the Taitse River was deployed in the hills and had partly moved to the northward. l OI tHc OlH COTpS, WufCl dTTiVcu lhere a short time before the fighting be- 1 gan, had been sent at once to the north. I while the remainder had reported with 1 the 2nd corps and was being held in re- serve.
 All the trees and Chinese graves on 1 the firing line which in any way might obstruct the operations. had been re !. l moved by the Russians.
 On the morning of September. all the non -combatants were, ordered tp leave Liaoyarig. and the Russian com missary of police sent an order to the Chinese magistrate of the. city that all Chinese must leave Liaoyang within two days. The Japanese were seen to
 be In possession of the Russian posi- tions at Shushan. and 1t was learned also on the morning of September i that General Stakelberg had withdrawn during the night. IA Chinese Make Jap Flags. The Chinese at Liaoyang became alarmed and began secretly to make Japanese flags. There was great confu- sion. The proprietors of foreign shops made frantic effort to sell their stocks on the streets at ridiculously low prices to any one who would pay cash. or en- deavored to have their property loaded on railroad cars. The flight of Japan ese shells over the railroad station stampeded them. however, and they fled in disorder, glad to get away with their lives.
 The foreign military attaches who were in Liaoyang were taken north under escort.
 The correspondent noticed on this morning unbroken line of ammunition wagons. batteries of artillery and Rus 1 sian troops using the Russian railroad bridge to get out of Liaoyang to the north. It became known that General Kuroki was making a dash around the Russian left for the railroad at a point fifteen miles north of here. He cross- ed the Taitse river the night of Au- gust 30. and took the splendid Rus- :, sian defenses. at Penzihu.. with very f little effort. He continued to advance His army covered fifteen miles in quick time. The effect on itsis pres ence and movements was to force the Russians to leave Liaoyang and re- tire in the direction of the coal mines east of Yentai He threatened to cut General Kuropatkin's army of seven corps in two. fs Removing the Stores. The correspondent of the Associated Press wa seating lunch at the rail- road station at noon when the first
  clement of Liaoyang. Within fifteen minutes all the troops. hospital at tendants. merchants an ,dother people in the vicinity had cleared out and only a few Chinese remained. The Japanese shells continued to fall in the settlement. Chinese, under the direc- ton of Russian officers, were making hurried efforts to remove the stores and ammunition from the railroad sheds. The Japanese shells came from Shushan and a Russian shrapnel fire was soon turned on the battery there.
 One Japanese shell killed a horse some fleet from the correspondent of the Associated Press, as the animal was passing the telegraph office. Others burst in the postoffce, in the hospital and the Red Cross tent, which had been put pin the garden around the sta- ton, an din the public park under the ancient pagoda. The Chinese immedi- ately began to loot, but whenever they were caught. immediate punishment was meted out to them.
 This was at noon of September i. On | that day the Russians filled all the | trenches, rifle pits and forts to the west and south of Liaoyang with fresh troops. They kept up a continual shrapnel fire upon the Japanese ap- 1 brooches without being aware of the extra movements of the army. Dur
 ing this time the main body of the Rus
 sian army was in active retreat. Japs's Splendid Advance. | At o'clock in the evening the shells
 falling just outside the western wall, | and on the Russian heliograph station
 at the northwest corner of the city
 From this station could be seen the
 japanese. They were advancing
 spiendidly over thes southern hills Their formation was regular and open | The range of the Japanese position:
 were Known to the Russian gunneri
 Who poured In terrible and destruc. | tive fire upon the enemy.
 | The right flank of General Nodzu',
 army had previously taken up a posi- | tion to the west of Chiafantun. whenc,
 his troops charged the Russian breast.
 works. One Japanese battalion los,
 every officer in this charge and n cor.
 poral was seen to take command Tn.
 Japanese intrenched fin the vicinity n, Tishi near where General Ivanoff had
 had his headqua rters the day before l The Russian Red Cross worked con.
 tinuously on the firing line. At {
 o'clock on the morning of Septembc,
 2. the transport of the Russian army was still going out to the north ana
 the head of the train was opposite Yen.
 tai
 KurOki's Movement North. | General Kuroki severed his connec 1 ton with the Japanese center army and | left the Anping road unprotected. Hi. army was in front of the last Russian
 position in the coal mining district tc | the east of Yentaf.
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