Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1904-10-20
norary SUSPENSION of general opera

Iporary suspension of general opera
tons.
| A complete veil hides the move
ments east, but both kuropatkn anu
| Sakharoff's reports say there were no
collisions on that portion of the battie-
! ground, Monday or Tuesday. leu
| Marshal Oyama evidently CONSIDERS
that Lone Tree Hill from which huro-
patkin could pivot a turning move
rlent against his left to be of vital m
portant as both Sunday and Monday
nights. the latter during a terrihc
storm made desperate efforts 10 re-
cal ture 1t, accompanying the assault
with demonstrative attacks aSe hSt
other points. But all the efforts taI3d.
Neither Kuropatkin nor SakharoH IN
the dispatches given out, "Wednesday
morning, send details of the defeat q
Yanada's column and the capture or
the Jdpanese guns. Pitiful pictures are
PAINTED by the war correspondents OF
the shelter!ess troops bivouacking IN
the cold rain the roads converted INTO
nuaprnires and the streams flooded.
The military critics are not yet sat
isfied that Oyama is ready to relinquish
the offensive, expressing the opinion
that he may still try to break through
the Russian center in order to compel
Europatkin to retire from the line OF
the Hun river. unless, as they believe,
he mas become convinced that the SUI
ncrinritv of the Russian numbers and
reserves makes his withdraw wal to the
limo If thc Taiste river advisable.
Cen. Gcissman asserts positively that
M 10 Tuesday, Kuropatkin had not
Iil,a al tha regiments
Of his reserves into action and the
number of fresh units behind which
his battered troops could reform ac-
counts for l[uropatkin's ability TO re-
st,,,e the offensive The line of battle
thus far engaged, counting westward
from the east, Gen. GeiSSman says
COMPRISED Gen. Bilderling'S 18th Euro
ptan corps. parts of Gen. SebotS bth
Erst Siberian corps portions Of Gen.
StouchrVisky's 10th corps, Gen. Meyen-
dorffs 1st European corps. and Gen.
Zaesalitch's md Siberian corps. The cx-
tremc Russian left which esSayed
turning movement and was meeting
With success according to Russian ac-
counts. until the situation at right CEN
ter compelled its withdrawal, consist
ed of Gen. Ivanoff's 3rd corps, and
Gen. Zarobaieff's 3rd corps, the Third
corps bearing the brunt Of the assaults
in a group of passes of the Tumen
range.
Therefore, two complete corps. Gen.
Stakclberg's First Corps and Gen. Dem
bowsky's Fifth Siberian Cops and parts
of five other corps are stu unused
\ dispatch from a correspondent oil
The Associated Press ut Mukden filed
m
was no fighting. Tuesday. and no flnG,
during the right indicates that the JaPa-
ncse are retiring as the light OF fires
was seen against the heavens possibly
showing that they were burning their
stores The correspondent also reports
that a resumption of the battle IS prob
able so soon as the roads permit. the RuS-
slams being everywhere i'll close touch
with the japanese.
THE Associated Press learns that the
reports representing Emperor Nicholas
as being respondent and depressed alC
far from the truth Gen. NelitChlNo, VINO
saw him. Monday night, declares that
while His Majesty is greatly EEirN"t III
the terrible sacrific" of life, he is "a firmly
| resolved as ever that the war must he
| prosecuted to the successful conclusion
| and that he is by no means sad tnat
| Kuropatkin, in whom he expressed thu
! fullest confidence would not he able t
| turn the tables before the present IN
returns a once to the front, takes a mes
| sage to Kuropatkin from the Emperor re-
nrWing his expressions of faith ana con
| fdpnce and expressing his readiness to
| send such reinforccmcnts Of men and
! guns as Nuropatkin might ask for