Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1904-09-01
GEN. KUROPATKIN
At HIS OLD TRICKS
Japanese Pressed Him 50 Hard at
Lao Yang That He Gave
Order to Retire
ARTILLERY FIRE VERY SEVERE
Duel Never Ceased ior a Moment
Each Gun Carried $50
Charges,

S. Petersburg, sept T. 3.& p. mae
cordmg 10 official adyIces from the front
the battle at Lao Vans had not ben re-
sumcd mp to o'clock this morning
The battle yesterday was Of the most
desperate character IT ragged continue
ously from dawn untl midnight and the
slaughter must have been immense At
) O'Clock In the evening, after holding hts
outer positions all dag IN the face Of the
most desperate charges, Gen kuropatkln
gave the order 60 retire upon the main
works about the city. The japanese AS.
sault. during the day had been directed
principally against the Russian center
little east OF Mactune hill near the
railroad and three miles southwest OF
Lilac Yang Nothing approaching the Sc.
verify NJ the infantry ana artillery hre
hero had been heretofore experienced M
THIS war Gen. kundratSVtChs division
bore the bruut and suffered the most
Bayoncl charges succeeded each other In
rapid succession while the artillery duel
never ceased for moment No attempt
was made I'm the official adyicCs 10 este
male the number VI guns the japanese
used, except that they had many hum
drCds Each gun carried 80 charges ana
these must nave been expended many
times as seyera hundred thousand
shells were fired between sunrise aud sum
set Gen. hurOpatkin's order 10 fall back
un the tortiiCdtiOns probably Was due iu
the receipt Of information that the
Japanese mad succeeded in crossing the
Tstz river, northeast Of l.i0o Yang al
though Gems Rennenkampns and Man
daHten's divisions had been especially
placed In position In this direction to
chcCkmate such a movement The Japa-
nese crossed at point called Sakankank-
Wautun, ~ miles east and somewhat
above Lao Yang and marched I'm force
directly westward with the evident object
Of cutting the Russian line of Cummun-
cation with Mukden Their exact strength
was not established but q division was
made out.
As soon as the Japanese found that me
Russians were retiring from their outer
positions southwark they resumed the
attack there although II was then quite
dark. Thus pressed the Russians arrested
their movement To the rear and again
faced the japanese. win the view Of
eventual retirement from their outer posi-
lions the Russians had dug a large NUM-
Der Of pits with stakes concealed IN their
bottoms, The pits were artfully conceal
cd among the high Chinese corn When
the japanese charged after the Russians
they fell Into the pits In hundreds ana
were engnfed and impaled on the stakes
pifd 'trh lines wtIc 3rOWn into Coutu-
sion When the Russians faced about and
returned TO their old positions they found
those death traps hlled with dead ana
dying.
The rattle OF musketry and boom Of
cannon continued until midnight when at
last silence brooded over the bloody
battlefield and the tired soldiers lay
down whore they had fought while the
W0ruout surgeons and angels NJ mercy
mlnlstered 10 the wounded all night anu
the Chinese coolies worked az carrying
them into Lao Vans
Gen. Sakharon In reporting the battle.
says the japanese suffered enormous
losses, much larger than those Of the
Russians, who also lost heavily No state
ment Is made I'm regard 10 the losses.
Gen. Stakelberg who Is among the
wounded, still remains In c0mmOnd Of
his army corps. although he Is no longer
In chief command OF the southern army,
which has since been consolidated under
Gen. Zaroubaipff Stakelbergs injury Is
slight and be- did not leave the ncld.
Gen, Maruzoysky. who Was also wound.
cd commanded the artillery brigade. lie
distinguished himself during the suppress
sion OF the Boxer troubles In China. His
wound is severe.
There has been no interruption OF
telegraphic communication with Lao
Yang UP 10 this hour which the general
stan considers 10 he conclusive evidence
that II the japanese Ranking movement
was pressed north VI Lilac Yang today it
was unsuccessful
The receipt Of press and private dis
patches has been delayed the chief tele-
graph office at LAO Yang having been
moved north which "a Invariably done
when hghting proceeds at such close
quarters The main office Of the field
telegraph is working at all points IN the
held occupied by the army corps staff