Waterbury evening Democrat., 1904-05-25
THE COSSACKS FLED
General Kuroki Reports De-
 feat Of Russian Force.
SQUADRON WAS ALMOST WIPED OUT

OEOnUNVN WnO ALMVOl W4I Lu Wu1 Paris Hears of Great Japaneae De-
 feat-COntinued skirmishing I'm
 Hills Near Lioyang-Japs Play
 ing s Waiting Game. < LONDON, May 25. --- A Tokyo dis patch says General Kuroki has report ed that section of Japanese infantry encountered and defeated 200 Cossacks at Toutaokou, eight miles northeast of Kuahgtien. The Cossacks fled to Ali youngpinemen, leaving twenty dead. The Japanese sustained no losses.
 Additional details of the fight at Wangchiatun, near Takushan, indicate that the squadron of Cossacks was al- most annihilated by the Japanese in fantry, which surrounded and com pletely routed the enemy All the Rus sian officers were killed wounded or captured. Natives report that soma of the Cossacks escaped on foot, abandon ing their equipment Many killed or wounded were found on the battlefield.
 A Paris report says the Japanese have been defeated, with terrible loss, in battle near Kinchau. The report says the Japanese lost 5000 men, the Russians 5000. No details are given. There are two places of that name in the zone of active war operations, and the Japs have been trying to force a landing at both. One is south of New chwang; the other is on the Port Ar thur railroad, just north of the be- sieged port.
 A report from Liaoyang says there is continual skirmishing between the Rus sian cavalry and the Japanese. Cos sacks are harassing> the Japanese in the hills and byroads, generally driving them back
 The general plan of the Japanese has l not been divulged. They are apparent ly marking time, awaiting the arrival delayed owing to the impassability of the roads.
 A typhoon is raging off the coast.
 A St. Petersburg report says the pre- vailing opinion at'the headquarters of the general staff is that the withdraw al of the Japanese upon Fengwang cheng means that the enemy has de- cided to devote himself primarily to operations against Port Arthur and that the present object of General Ku- roki, with the first army, supported by General Nadya, with the third army, now landing near Takushan, is to watch General Kuropatkin and pre- vent move southward, which would take General Oku and the second army, on the Liaotung peninsula, in the rear
 A Newchwang report says the Japa- nese land operations directed against Port Arthur are meeting with little success Generals Stoessel and Fock continue to make well directed and desperate sorties against the advance of the Japanese, who are fighting with stubborn determination almost un- known in history.
 Several hundred have been killed during the last few days
 Japanese re-enforcements are arriv- ing daily at Pitsewo and Polandien.
 A Russian torpedo hotilla is cruising off Port Arthur.
 It is the intention of the Japanese to reduce the Russian fortress at all costs before undertaking a general ad- vance on Liaoyang, where the Russian army is concentrated.
 The west wall of Liaoyang has been pulled down and the material uilized in constructing covered trenches and Notifications extending from the noun tains on the Fengwangcheng road to the Liao river. Thousands of Chinese anchors have been conveyed to Liao- yang to be used in anchoring pontoon bridges.
 Probably the greatest battle of the war will be fought in the vicinity of Liaoyang, where General Kuropatkin is determined to check the Japanese advance.