The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-10-24
ARMIES CONTINUE TO
 REST ON SRAKHE RIVER
DESULToRK BoMBARDMENr OF POSITIONS BF BELLIGERENTS.

KurOpatkin Believed to be Preparing
 Another Plan to Break the Japanese
 Resistance-ROads Now Dry-Japa-
 nese OmciaI Estimate of Russian
 Casualties eOOoO-wounded to Num-
 ber of 26;OOO Pass Through Harbin.
 St. Petersburg. Got. 24-2;Os a. m.-- There is no change in the relative po- sitions of the armies on the Shakhe river. General sakharoff telegraphs that the Russians have been bombard- ing Lamuting and the Buddhist temple at Linshipu, while the Japanese have been sheIling the Russian position at Shakhe and near Linshinpu. An Asso- ciated Press dispatch from Mukden re- ports that the Japsnese are fortifying an important height south of Shakhe, and that neither side shows a disposi- ton either to advance or to retire, Another Associated Press dispatch from the Russian front says the situa- tion is not yet ripe for the resumption of the offensive. This meager but sig lllllCd11I e1AlAlholOlAt ttAl LA4oL lAAS CCtAoOA allows to pass over the wires doubt less indicates that General Kuropatlkin is maturing important plans and dis tributing his forces in readiness for another attempt to break the Japanese resistance. The roads are now died by winds and front; the cold is intense. and the flooded fields have been frozen. Thus military movements are facili- tated, though at the same time it will be more difficult to carry on entrench- 1 ing work.
 As Associated Press dispatch from the Russian front gives rumor that the Russian force has made detour to the west, arriving abreast of Liao Yang, but there is no confirmation of this report Great importance is at tached to a report from Tolio that 200 Russians have crossed the Taitse river east of Bensihu, and that 2O,0O0 are concentrated at Kauta pass, twenty miles northeast. This may indicate the direction of Kuropatkin's next blow or possibly it is intended to disconcert { the Japanese and compel them to weaken their force on the railroad. Whatever Kuropatkin's ultimate object may be, there is no doubt that he is desirous of obtaining the most reliable information as to the number of dis. position of the force opposing his eastern flank. The CossacIxs may be relied upon to harass the Japanese line of communication, besides reconnoiter- ing.
 i General Kuropatkin is with the cen- ter of his army. On October 21 he personally conveyed the congratulate tions of Emperor Nicholas to Colonel Poutiloff and the Nineteenth rifles for the capture of Lone Tree hill.
 The Japanese estimate that the Rus sian losses in the battle of Shakhe amount to 60,000 is not confirmed here A telegram from Harbin repbrts the passage north of 26,OOO wounded. The mainder, who are quartered in hospi- I tals at Mukden, cannot exceed a few I thousand.
 Lieutenant General Roxy, cammand- 1 ing the Twenty first infantry division, has been appointed to the command of { the Nineteenth army corps of the Wilma district. This appointment is believed to indicate the inclusion of the nine teenth corps in the second Manchurian army.
 The return of Grand Duke Nicholas to St. Petersburg has evoked no com
 ment, and there is no further talk of l his appointment to the chief command l in Manchuria.
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