Las Vegas daily optic. [volume] (Las Vegas, N.M.) 1880-1908, 1904-09-27

return here. The report that he may
become chancellor OF the empire, how.
ever, is exploded. He is more likely
to retain his title and come to st.
Petersburg nominally as adviser to
the emperor and will thus efface him.
self as factor in the military opera
! tions in the far east.
Fierce Battle.
LONDON, Sept 27--Further re-
ports of the fighting at Da Pass in
! dicate that the battle was considera-
bly, more than skirmish. Twice the
Japanese army under General Kuro
XII, after its swift and silent march
in a complete half circle around the
Russians attacked Kuroparkin's army,
and twice it was hurled back with
fearful losses. Later reports supple.
menting the brief official report OF
Kuropatkin say that the fighting at
! Da Pass, west Of Mukden, was as
fierce and bloody as that which char
acterized the battle al Lao Yang. The
Japanese soldiers, rested from their
arduous labors at Lao Yang and The
pursuit OF the Russins from thai
place. sayagely attacked the Russians
in the pass, without waiting for the
usual preliminary artillery duel.
A large body of Cossacks. with The
help of the many machine guns Bu
no heavy cannon, held the pass il
fortified positions.
Sullenly, the Japanese retired, bu
only to return again to the charge
after they had rested few moments
Again they dashed onward, needles,
of the splitting bullets from the Cos
sacks rifles.
Charging in broken squads, the,
ran forwards few yards and fell t.
the ground to escape the deadly rail-
Of bullets from the machine guns.
moment on the ground and the,
sprang up and forward again.
Bodies Strew Field.
, Steadily, but with ever-lessenin
forces. they drew nearer the Russian
Notifications; but human bodies an
' souls could not withstand the awfu
5 death dealing rain of bullets from tn
!. Russian machine guns. After the bal
4 tlefield had been strewn with hur
! dreds OF their dead comrades an
made slippery with the blood Of tn
killed and wounded the Japanese so
0 diers we're recalled from the charg
2 repulsed in the first fighting Of tn
J. battle OF Mukden
& Correspondents Coming Home.
!. HONOLULU, Sept 27.-Melto
]. Prior, newspaper correspondent
e who arrived here today on the Pi
l. cific Mail steamer Mongolia from Y,
n kohama, says he feels absolutely ce
J. tain that the war in the Far Eas
will lead to European complication
and TO the most awful war in IN
J. worlds history. Mr.. Prior complain
t that the japanese have displayed ba
y faith toward all correspondents. Th
e he says, is his twenty can
e paign and ii is the only one in whic
e he has seen nothing. He believe
J. that with the possible exception
4 the battle of Liao Yang, not one co
n respondent has seen a shot fired, an
IS he even doubts if the Lao Yang figh
J. ing was witnessed by a newspape
e man.
II Other correspondents are returnin
8 on the Mongolia. Richard Hardin
e Davis is going to the United States b
n way of Victoria
e A despatch from Che Foo, Sept.
II said that Richard Harding Davis an
II John Fox. Jr American newspape
a correspondents. had arrived ther
s from the headquarters Of the secon
Y japanese army. and would proceed I
If the United States. They said tn
T. foreign military attaches and newsp,
o per correspondents with the secon