The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1904-08-29
The Russian Army Is Drawn
Up in Valley.
East of Lao Yang About Eleven
Miles Distant.
FORCE OF 10000 MEN.
Await the Attack of japanese
Combined Armies.
kurOpatkin's Report on Fight
ing of Past Two Days.

Hsiaotun, Eleven Miles East of Liao
Yang. Aug. 29-The Russian army from
An Ping this afternoon debouched upon
the Lao Yang plain, after fighting a
rear guard action for nearly ten miles
from An Ping. bringing it's wounded
and burying its dead on the way. Six
guns are reported to have been lost, but
a number of Japanese were captured,
showing signs of great fatigue and
hardships. The enormous army. the
last of which passed out on the Ian
valley at o'clock this afternoon seems
to I'LL the entire plain from the foothills
to the ancient walls. The army was
disposed in an orderly manner through
the vast fields of Chinese corn, the SOL
diers singing as they went into camp,
despite their unbroken series of re-
verses. while the baggage and transport
trains caught in the muddy rivulets.
attracted the CHEEKY assistance of ev-
erybody. Nothing apparently affected
the heartiness of the men in the ranks.
The line of wounded men which reached
the great east gate this evening, passed
silently through the streets as deserted
as the aisles of the catacombs. The lit
ter bearers, with their solitary lanterns
presented an impressive spectacle, aw-
ing the Chinese, who today for the first
time realized the imminence of battle.
The Fighting Up to Date.
st. Petersburg, Aug. 29.-5:05 P. NJ
The operations around Lao Yang have
undergone a complete change. Owing
to the delay in the concentration of
General kuropatkin's army as a result
OF the terrible condition of the roads,
the japanese seized the opportunity to
attack the slow moving corps and Sc
we're fighting occurred August 27-2S, in
which the Russians lost another oppor-
tunity viii have TO accept a general en-
gagement- General kuropatkin himself
describes the latest phase of the hostiIi-
ties in a long dispatch to the emper-
or from a point on the railroad a few
miles south of Lao Yang where prac-
tically the whole aru1E was assembled
and awaiting battle. The telegram,
which was filed early this morning
says:
The japanese began at dawn Aug
ust p, two movements designed to cut
on the first and fourth corps The first,
stationed at Anshanshan half way be-
tween Hal Cheng and Lao Yang exper-I
fenced the most serious difficulty owing
to bad roads. The Japanese under
General Oku tried to flank this corps
from the east. In the meanwhile Gen
kurOki abandoning his pressure of
Generals Ivanof and Herschelmann,
drove a wedge between the secono Snd
fourth corps, which were stationed west
of Laindiansian, a strong defensive po-
sitiOn in the hills "a miles southeast
impeded by their artillery and commits
sariat fought a series of rear guard ac-
tions in order to cover the retreat of
their fmpediments to Lao Yang. in
which they were successful. The first
corps which figured at the battle of
Yalu and in the fighting at Mo Tien
pass, again sustained the brunt of the
fighting and suffered the majority of
the losses including General Foutkovs-
ky and Colonel Won Raaben.
The First, Second and Fourth corps,
l.
Zaroubaieff and the Tenth. Seventeenth
and Third crops under General Ivanoff,
forming the eastern contingent, sue
ceeded in effecting concentration at
Lao Yang without further loss.
The whole six corps. of which two
are European troops have now formed
a semi-circle within a radius of six or
eight miles of Lao Yang"
General Kuropatkin has not far short
of 10000 men.
a Russian Flank Movement.
Mukden. Aug. 29.-In the fighting
of August 26. the 18Th Saraisk regi-
ment, with battery executed a par
ticularly successful fianking move |
ment on the Japanese extreme right. |
The Russians unperceived got in the |
rear of the Japanese, whole columns |
of whom were moved before they (
were able to extricate themselves. Eve |
witnesses agree in admiring the fanat- |
ical bravery of the Japanese. Many 1
of the wounded committed suicide !
rather than fall into the hands of the |
Russians An additional detachment /
of 500 Russian wounded was sent |
northward Sunday.
Russian Losses 5000.
Harbin. Manchuria, Aug. 29.-The |
Russian losses in the fighting of Au-
gust rs and 26. east and south of Lao |
Yang, were 5000 killed or wounded. |
The great majority of the casualties |
were sustained at An Ping. The with
drawals of the Russians from their
front at Anshanshan and from their
eastern position was made simuItan-
eously for strategic reasons.
Abandoned Commissary Stores.
London, Aug ga dispatch to a
news agency from Toxic, under to-
days date. in reporting the Japanese
occupation of An Ping and Tang
hoyen SAYS:
ION the Japanese advancing to at
tack An Ping the Russians evacuated
the place. abandoning large quantities
of stores
''It is roughly computed that the
Russian force around Lao Yang con-
sists of thirteen divisions
Wires Open to Lao Yang.
St Petersburg, Aug. 29--The de-
partment of telesraphs informs the
Associated Press that the lines are
working direct to Lao Yang. thus re-
futing definitely the report that Gen
eral Kurok had cut the railroad.