The Ladysmith news. [volume] (Ladysmith, Wis.) 1905-1905, 1905-03-25
RUSSO-JAPANESE WAR

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and from the Russian column Japan
csc batteries are vicible keeping pace
short distance away.
| Still on the Run.
! With the Japanese Army in the
| Field, via Fusan, March 21.-The Rus
sian army continues it's northern re-
treat, the Japanese following. The
| Japanese have occupied Gakoman, to
| the northwest of Tie Pass. Yesterday
evening the Russians cavalry camped
three miles south of Kaiyuen. Large
Russian columns are retreating to-
ward this place from the southwest.
| The natives report that they are not
stopping there, where the hills make
defense possible. If the retreat is
forced, it probably will continue to
Hardin. The Russians are reported as
being badly disorganized.
| Kuropatkin Ordered Home.
With the Japanese hanging on the
heels and TANKS of the remnants OF
the broken and defeated Russian
army, Gen. Kuropatkin the old idol of
the private soldier, has been dismissed
and disgraced.
Gen. Linevitch, commander OF the
First army, is appointed to succeed
| him in command of all the Russian
| land and sea forces operating against
| Japan.
The word disgrace is. written in
large letters in the laconic imperial
order gazetting the change. The order
| contains not a single word of praise
and also disposes of the rumor that
| Kuropatkin asked to be relieved.
The Russian military annals contain
no more bitter imperial rebuke.
Russians Anxious About Army.
Decided anxiety is felt here regard
| ing the fate of the army in Manchuria
under its new commander. no news OF
military developments the last two
days having been received: The only
dispatches from the front are. the
| brief announcements yesterday that
Gen. Linevitch had assumed command
and that Gen. Kuropatkin was de-
parting for ST. Petersburg and the AS
ISOLATED Press Changtufu dispatch
filed the morning of Marchs16 and writ
ten at the station of Kaiyuan, which
was then held by the Russians. In
this correspondents opinion no pause
in the Japanese advance rs probable
for some time. The Russians, ~
Are Losing Heavily "s
| in the rear guard actions, and Japan
| csc columns are reported to be push
| ing northward as fast as possible to
complete the development of the Rus
| sian forces. Gen. Linevitch. however,
| will have. a considerable accession of
fresh troops in day Or two, the
| Fourth European corps being now at
Hardin and departing southWard.
Military officials here declare that
| there are now $3.50 men at Gen. Lin
evitch's disposal in Manchuria, and it
| IS believed that this force will be ,suf-
.f1cient to cause the Japanese to eyer
| else greater caution in their pursuit.
= Although Gen. Kuropatkins down
| fall was inevitable from the military
standpoint, nevertheless
I , IL Arouses Sympathy
| in circles familiar with the long cara
| paign that has been waged against
him by the general staff.
Gen Linevitch is distinctively line
officer, with a long record as fighter.
He is almost as cordially disliked by
| the general staff as is his predecessor,
| and there also is bad blood between
| Kuropatkin and Linevitch dating
| from personal quarrel in the days
| when Kuroratkin was commander in
the trans-Baikal army, which led
Linevitch to demand satisfaction.
KuropatKin assumed the position that
| he could not fight an officer Of inferior
rank. The succession of this officer
will naturally increase Gen. Kuropat
! kin's discontinue.
zap Column IsYRepulsed.
Meager reports have been received
| from q Russian source of a fight eight
miles south of Tie pass between
Russian force under Gen Mistchenko
| and a Japanese, column, the identity
| of which is unknown. The japanese
were repulsed, it is said, with loss of
| 1000 killed.
| The rumor that after the evacuation
of Mukden eighty foreigners, including
an American newspaper correspond
ent, had been murdered by Chinese is
discredited by the fact that the cor
respondent in question, Richard H.
Little, of the Chicago Daily News, re-
ported to his paper on March IA that
he had been captured by the Japanese
and was leaving Yinkow for Kobe.
A steamer arriving at Singapore re-
ports having passed squadron Of
! twenty-five Japanese warships about
twenty miles east of the entrance to
the Straits of Malacca. Two japanese
cruisers and two auxiliary cruisers
previously arrived at Singapore Pre-
sumably these vessels are on the way
westward in search of the Russian
second Pacific squadron, last reported
| in Ma Iagascar waters
|