The Oskaloosa herald., 1904-09-15
LOSING FAITH IN
GEN. KUROPATK|N'
RWssIANLEADER's POPULARITY
EVIDENTLY ON THE wANE.
q5LoNo SILENCE CRITICISED
Reported Capture of Lieut. Gen. Zassa-
hitch and Force Of 5000 Men
by Japs Declared to
Be False.
Scripps-McRae Telegram.

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Mukden, Sept. 14.-It is confidently
predicted here that within few days
General Kuropatkin's army will al
most have been doubled. Already
two new army corps have been added
to his force. Huge bodies of fresh
b troops are pouring into the vicinity Of
Pie Pass, where it is believed that
the Russian army will offer battle to
Oyama should the Japanese continue
to push the campaign.
Enormous re-enforcements Of artil-
lery are also being received by Kuro-
patkin. Fully 300 guns have been
added to his army.
1t is believed that the Russian gen.
eral is Fastening preparations for an
other and deadlier struggle with the
enemy
Berlin, Sept. 14.-The Tageblatt to-
day states that the departure of the
Baltic squadron has at the last mo-
ment been deferred for several days,
apparently to await news from the far
east. The fleet will remain for the
present at Reval.
London, Sept. 14,-The Rome cor
respondent of the Exchange-Tele-
graph wires his paper that telegram
received at Rome from Toxic states
that the government, in reply to the
request of Field Marshal Oyama, has
promised to send re-enforcements to
HIM at once and that one hundred
thousand men and 221 guns will reach
him by October 1.
Mukden, Sept. IA the Japanese
army is within twenty-one miles of
Mukden. There is no indication of
their advance.
The Korea Sails For America.
London, Sept. 14.--A dispatch from
st. Petersburg by way of Paris states
that the second Russian auxiliary
cruiser, the orea, may be expected to
reach San Francisco very shortly.
The general staff of ST. Petersburg
feels confident that the United States
viii allow both the Lena and the Ko-
rea to obtain sufficient coal and sup
plies to take them to Vladivostok.
Toxic, Sept. 14.-Field Marshal
Oyama confirms the report that con-
siderable force of Russians remain
south of the Hun river and says the
Russians are fortifying the heights on
both sides of the Lao river at Tie
Pass,
Vladivostok, Sept. 14.-The Russian
imperial prize court has today decided
torelease the British steamer Calchas
and also neutral parts of the cargo.
That part of the cargo consigned to
Japan and consisting of -four, cotton
and timber has been confiscated.
The Calchas will be detained three
months in order to allow its owners
time for an appeal from the prize
courts decision. The Russian naval
report of the court protested against
the release Of the vessel.
st. Petersburg. Sept 1.-THE con-
tfnued delay in the receipt here Of any
thing like detailed official account
either of the battle of Liaoyang or of the
present situation at the front is proving
more irritating to the public of st. Pc
tersburg than any previous phase of the
war;, and has given rise to numerous
alarmist stories of the alleged precar-
ious situation of Gen. Kuropatkin's
army. None of these stories, however,
are traceable to any authentic source.
The fact seems to be that military opera
tions in the neighborhood of Mukden are
almost suspended on account Of the effect
of therains upon the roads. There is no
current news to record, while if Gen.
Kuropatkin has transmitted any full ac-
count Of the recent great battle, it has
not been allowed to circulate. The per-
sistent silence is doing more than any
thing else to discredit the Russian COM
mander-in-chief in the eyes Of the public,
with whom he has heretofore been an
almost deified hero
Uneasy Over China's Attitude.
Reports that the Chinese are making
preparations to occupy conquered terri
tory are creating some uneasiness, for
China has been all along an uncertain
quantity from which any development or
complication might be expected. No
one knows precisely what pressure,
racial or political, Japan may be able
10 bring to bear. up the great, silent
empire. The logical belief always has
been that China would endeavor to the
utmost to refrain from taking side in
the present conflict. in order that she
might be in position to make the best
terms possible with the ultimate victor;
but 1t is realized that continued Japa-
nese advance into the heart Of. Man
churia might exert powerful infiu-
ence upon both the Chinese peasantry
and the nearby, Uncontrolled regular
troops. which the weak central govern
nnent at Peking might find It difficult to
curb. thereby precipitatins serious COM
plications upon the scene Of actual hos
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