The Sisseton weekly standard. (Sisseton, Roberts County, S.D.) 1892-1929, 1905-03-17
RELENTLESS
JAPS IN PURSUIT
DETERMINED TO COMPLETELY
CRUSH OUT kURoPATklN'S
FORCES.
HARRAssED FROM ALL SIDES
RErREATiNG FRAGMENT o.
RUSS ARMY is IN GREAT
DANGER.

| While Gen. Kuropatlin has appar
| entity succeeded in saving more OF his
artillery than seemed possible, his
losses in men. ammunition and COM
missariat supplies in the battle of
Mukden are far greater than earlier
reports indicated, and even that por-
ton of his army which he succeeded
In extricating from the positions
around Mukden is still in serious
danger. The Japanese generals, real
iZing that with little more speed
| they could have inflicted crushing
defeat on the Russian army after the
battle of Lao yang, determined not to
again allow an opportunity to pass,
and are following after the defeated
and sorely tried Russian forces.
While small portion of Kuropatkin's
army has reached Tie pass, the great
er part of those who escaped from the
battle of Mu]lden are still
Struggling Onward,
being at last accounts between twelve
and sixteen miles from their goal,
| with the Japanese, flushed with vic
tory and reinforced by fresh men,
harrassing them from all sides. Even
should the remnant of the army reach
Tie pass it is hardly possible for it to
make stand there against the over
whelming force opposing it, especially
as the Russians must be worn out and
| weakened by the loss of men, guns
and ammunition. 1t is more likely that
kuropatkin will fall right back to
Hardin with what he can save and
wait there for the reinforcements that
st. Petersburg already has promised
him. A possible obstacle to the plan
is Gen. Kamamura's army, which has
not yet been located, and which may
also De heading for the northern CAPT
tai
Russia Loses 100000 Men.
| Gen. Kuropatkin admits that 1,l9O
officers and 46,931 men are not re-
spending to roll calls. This is rather
vague. 1t may or may not include the
thousands of wounded who have been
| sent north, and again it may not in
clude the losses suffered by the third
army, with which the commander-in-
chief was not in communication for
some time. The figures given by the
japanese war Office appear more rea-
sonable, namely, 10000 prisoners, 49,
| 500 dead and left on the field and 90
900 killed or wounded, the latter fig
ure, of course, including the dead
found by the Japanese. The Russian
losses, therefore, total over 100000
men, Or more than one-third of the
| whole army. The fact that the Japan
csc report the capture of only sixty
guns indicates that ,Kuropatkin at the
last moment succeeded in sending
considerable portion of his artillery
northward on the railway. The
| Japanese Losses
1922, not including the army which
pushed north between Mukden and
| Fushun.
! Official Russia is determined to car
ry On the war and ST. Petersburg re-
ports that orders have been issued for
the mobilization of more troops. This
may prove a difficult task with the
| temper of the Russian people in it's
present condition There is still hope
in ST. Petersburg that Russia can ex-
haust Japan financially, and for
months there has been talk of the mo-
| bilization of an army on the Siberian
| border which would compel Japan to
| keep her vast army in Manchura
| Are Rushing Northward.
The fate of the Russian army Of up
ward of a quarter of million men
and the two thousand pieces of artil-
lery with which 1t was expected con-
fidently Gen. Kuropatkin and his lieu
tenants could prevent the advance OF
the Japanese beyond the Shallhe and
| Hun river positions still is in the bal
ance. They have been driven from
| those positions, and now are rushing
northward toward Tie pass, around
which are high hills which were pre-
pared for defense after the battle of
Yiao-yang in September, there being
no hope at that time that the Japan
csc would allow the defeated army to
rest south of Tie pass. That the Rus
| SLAMS have lost many guns and large
quantities of ammunition and supplies
is certain, for with but single track
STEFFEl NOT GUILTY.