The French Broad hustler. [volume] (Hendersonville, N.C.) 1896-1912, 1905-02-02

me military. The finding of revolvers
OF uniform make on many of the riot
ers arrested affords confirmation Of re-
cent reports, that revolutionary agita-
tors hav been smuggling arms in an
tieipation of an outbreak. 1t is asserted
that the official tale of the dead
through the recent conflict between the
strikers and troops at Riga is far short
of the. act1ality, many having persisted
in an; attempt to cross the river on
the ice when the soldiers opened fire,
the ice breaking and the water IN
quilting the f%ugttives.
80 KuFopatkin Fails.
st. Petersburg, BY Cable.-General
Kuropatkin'S attempt to break through
the Japenese left wing and outlank
Field Marshal Oyama's position on the
Shakhe river, seems to have failed n
tirely. Few details, however, are avail
able, beyond the information contained
in the official dispatches. Field Mar
shall Oyama, as at the battle of Sha-
n river, appears to have arrested the
Russian advance with a counter. Of
ffenSive movement; but no great dis
position was shown to carry the war
fare into the territory held by the Rus
SLAMS.
At the War Office, there is an in
lelinatiOn to lay the chief blame for
the failure OF the movement to a sud
den change of the weather to intense
cold 20 degrees below zero, with a
high wind, which drifted the snow and
rendered it hazardous to eopxse the
troops to camping in the open plain,
and also impeded the transportation
of guns. supplies and the wounded. The
operation entrusted to the second army,
under General ~Grippenberg, was the
capture of S~andepas, which, in Rus
sian hands. would serve as a pivot for
a fianking movement against Field
Marshal Oyama, but SandepaS proved
too hard a nut to crack, and the JAP
anese, taking advantage of the check
OF the Russians, hurried up their re-
endorsements, and assumed the Often
slVe on the Hun river, as we'll as along
the railroad and the great Mandarin
road. The Russians, however, appear
to have been completely successful on
the defensive, repulsing all the Jap
anese attacks.
Wanted to outfiank Japs.
Russian. Headquarters, BY Cable
The object of General Kuropatkin's la
test offensive movement was to capture
tho important post of Sandepas, on the
left BAN Of the Hun river, and there
Dy OuILduK the from the
Shake river and enable the Russian
army to undertake a general advance.
AT S~andepaS the japanese occupied a
strongly fortified position commanding
the triangular formed by the confu-
ence Of the Hun and Shakhe rivers.
The japanese had erected a fort of
most permanent type with triple
earthworks and trenches extending in
a southwesterly direction. Several vii
lases to the northeast were also for
titled strongly. The positions were
held by twelve battalions of Japanese,
partly drawn from General Nogi's ar
my and partly reserves. The Russians
carried the first line of entertainments,
but were unable to maintain their po-
on the outskirts of Sandepas in
TIE face of fierce cannonading. The
fighting was transferred westward. The
Japanese counter attacked with a bril-
ga6e Of infantry, endeavoring to en-
velope the Russians, but the cavalry
protecting the Russian flank drove back
the Japanese with heavy loss. A coun-
ter attack on the village captured by
the Russians at the outset of the fight
was also beaten OFF, but at the cost to
the Russians of several thousand killed
or wounded, including General Nit
senchko, who was wounded in the knee.