Watertown republican. [volume] (Watertown, Wis.) 1860-1906, 1905-02-08
REPULSED BY RUSSIANS.
Kuropatkin Claims Tint Re Has
Pushed By Lines Of Japs.
DEMBOWSKI WOUNDED.
Gen. Grippenberg Starts Back to ST.
Petersburg-No Truth in
Peace Rumcr

ST. Petersburg, Feb. 6.-7:45 p. H.
The Associated Press is authorized to an
nounce that not the slightest information
has been received at the war office re-
garding the alleged illness or resignation
of Gen. Kuropatkin. On the contrary,
the war Offices information indicates no
change whatever in the headquarters
staff in Manchuria and that the de-
parture Of Sen. Grippenberg for st.
Petersburg is due to illness.
The version of the departure of Gen.
Grippenberg now given in the best in
formed unofficial circles is that the gen.
eral left the front because he exceeded
Gen. kuropatkin's orders in pushing be-
You'd Sandepas and needlessly sacrificed
thousands of men. This led Kuropatkin
to demand Grippenberg S recall.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 6.-Telegraph
under date of February 5, Gen. Auro-
patkin reports as follows:
"A Russian detachment marched to
Santantse, twelve miles southwest of ST.
bombay. The japanese at Santantse and
Saodameng were repulsed. The Russian
losses were insignificant.
The Japanese assumed the offensive
along the line to Characteristics today.
Several of their batteries advanced. but
the Russian artillery repulsed them
Gen. Dembowski Wounded.
st. Petersburg, Feb. 6.--According to
Kuropatkins latest reports, which indi-
cate the wounding of a third Russian
general, DemboWski. the operations at
Sandiapu and the fighting at Shakhe
have been suspended momentarily. The
Russians successfully repulsed the latest
attack of the Japanese eastward with
there being q degrees Of frost. There
are indications that the japanese are
preparing to break the inactivity on their
own account as soon as the weather mod
crates.
Russians Are Entrenching.
Toxic, Feb 6.-Noon.-Oficiai an
nouncement is made that everything is
quiet in the vicinity Of Changtan, with
the exception that the Russians are siren
uously intrenching.
The Russian force which attacked Chi
tatzu February retired northward Feb
ruary ,.
On the afternoon OF February and
the morning Of February 3 the Russian
artillery west Of Tanshan shelled Ma
chuantzu mountain and vicinity. Small
bodies of Russian infantry attacked, but
they were repulSed.
Before abandoning Songchin, in north
eastern Korea, January q, the Russians
burned all their stores. 1t IS thought
that the Russians intend to abandon all
operations in northeastern Korea.
japanese at Lao Yang.
Sachatum, Manchuria, Feb. 5.-(Sun-
day.l-Chinese arrivals here report that
the only japanese force at Lao Yang is
composed Of 200 gendarmes and police,
though 5000 troops are quartered in near
by villages. The higher officers live at
the railroad station, where a large COM
missariat and ammunition depot has been
established. Huge quantities of rice, fish,
sugar, etc, are stored there. The rail
road from Port Arthur to Lao Yang is
are running both ways daily.
The second railroad which the japanese
are constructing from the Yalu river TO
Lao Yang is not completed. Meanwhile
the japanese have built narrow gauge
road for horse traction.