The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-08-31
REAT BATTLE STILL
 RACES AT LAO YANG
2 PETERSBURG PLACES CON
 FTDEECE IN KURoPATKIM

FIDENCE IN KUROPATKIN. panese Said to Have 1,20O Gnas and Many Mountain Batteries in Action sakaroR Reports Obstinate Attack of
 Enemy and Considerable Losses sus-
 stained Through shrapneI FIre-Ku-
 rOki's Forces Said Not to Have Taken Part in Yesterdays Fighting.
 St. Petersbunrg. Aug. S1.-S:55 a. m.--
 ae great battle of Liao Yang, which san early Tuesday morning, ragged roughout the day with increasing in nsity, but up to this hour no further
 1cial details beyond the two brief spatches given out in the afternoon ve been received by the war office.
 Every confidence is expressed in Gem \ al Kuropatkin's ability to meet the
 panese assault on ground of his own
 posing, but the city is hungrily
 gaiting further news of the progress the fight.
 The Japanese forces egaged in this title can only be estimated here, but X ley are believed to number about 2OO,- D men. General Kuropatkin is known have six army corps, besides 147 uadrons of cavalry in which great nfidence is reposed, bringing up the usslan total to about the same num- i sr that the Japanese have. How the tnies compare with regard to artil- <ry is not definitely known, though roughout the war the Japanese have Down great preference for this arm lld great skill in it's use. Reports from the front credit the
 panese with having about 1,2OO guns Id many mountain batteries, and it is |lown that they recently shipped tWen- Efour heavy guns to Yinkow. Four these guns already have been men |oned in these dispatches as being in !etion.
 N sld batteries has a number of very |eavy guns emplaced at opposite posi- kpns at Liao Yang, where the Russians
 hve been strongly fortifying for some sne. The Japanese claim to have cap- bred two field batteries during the slst two days. Russian official accounts limit the loss of only six guns. IA. ke5 To v,,3 ,,t.eys, I,of las captured south of Anshanshan slring the preliminary fighting and Aat several Japanese guns have been estroyed since then.
 Little of the strategic situation has eveloped So far. Official news from le front says that there was desper- 5e fighting on the southern center,
 nile from other sources 1t appears bat the Japanese are endeavoring to hrn the Russian right from the neigh |orhood of the junction of the Taitse Id Sakhex rivers. The fighting on the roached within three miles of Liao lang.
 The news from Port Arthur up to 'ugust 26 was reassuring. The ac- punt of the battleship Sevastopol hav-0 sg gone out on August 23 to lombard lie Japanese in Tahe bay does not lention that vessel striking a mine. London, Aug. BOA dispatch from Iiao Yang to aIgews agency, dated Au- Rlst 30, says,
 .'The Japanese artillery fire only ceas- ] at 8 o'clock this evening. The cas- alties have not yet been ascertained. l.The Third Russian corps repulsed a pt Japanese assault, the Japanese be- Ig hurled back by bayonet charges, rstly by the TWenty-third and then 7 the Twenty fourth regiments, which ceived and repulsed the enemy no sss than six times.
 1.-Two Japanese companies, which icceeded in occupying a Russian posi- on, were mistaken for Russians and nnihilated by Japanese artillery fire. tsAt 4 o'clock in the afternoon the apanese concentrated their fire on a ussian southern detachment from the ght under the protection of the bat cries.
 aOne company after another was no- ced running swiftly to the westward an attempt to outf1ank the positions, Ut a Russian regiment and a battery ere ordered to advance and succeeded forcing the enemy to retreat in dis rder, evacuating positions they previ- lsly had gained.
 There has been an immense expendi- ire of ammunition throughout the day, specially in southern front against the russian Third corps.
 "A more energetic attack is expected ,-rl1orroW.
 Tt seems that General Kurokrs force Id not participate in to-day's engage S lent.
 "The morale of the Russian troops is zcellent."
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