The Kimball graphic. (Kimball, Brule County, Dakota [S.D.]) 1883-1905, 1905-03-17
Run Before Jap Fire.

repeatedly proved their valor Oh bloody
fields, have been compelled to run be-
fore the steady. relentless pressure of
the troops of the mikado. who. scorn-
ing death, have continued battering
away at the Russian Entertainments and
pietcing them one by n until the vast
system of earthworks below and to the
eastward ard westward Of Mukden,
constructed as Il refuge after Lao
Yang, and proclaimed to be imr.c
nablc. are in the hands of the Japa-
leSc, and above them floats the sun
rayed flag of the m!kado.
Nogi Makes Giant Strides.
Oyalna's hands have peer we'll up
held. Nogi's veterans from Port Ar
thur, fighting side by side with he
heroes of Feng Wang Cheng and Liao
Yang, have overwhelmed the Russian
army and inflicted disastrous defeat.
The losses on both sides have been
enormous. although it is Impossible to
estimate them.
The Russians at first held the advap-
tage OF positions and their shell fire was
well directed, their shrapnel tearing
great gaps in the ranks OF the attack
ing forces. So soon as one man fell.
however. another look his place and
they pressed cn up the slopes to the
very muZzles of the Russian pieces.
driNlnS the enemy away at the point
of the bayOnet.
Carry Out All Plans.
From day to day the fighting has
continued, the subordinate command
ers following out the carefully ar.
ranged plan decided upon Immediately
after the fall of Lilac Yang, and per-
hitting nothing to interfere with their
orders.
An official statement is expected with
in n few hours. defining the manner in
which success was secured, but untl
fhnt che. II orf1,a tl,. n,rcrrcl;~ ~s...-
unbroken and the only information de-
rived from a few belated official re-
ports n certain fragmentary dis
patches from the correspondents. These
have been so mutilated that it Is hard
to piece them together and gather a
reasonably accurate record.
1t is possible. though. to derive con-
siderable information from the smiling
faces of the officers of the general staff.
who. Hitting noiselcssly in and out al
way full of business can be per-
Suaded once in Il while to stop and de-
clare:
His majesty's forces are doing Just
what we expected of them"
Rejoicing at Toxic.
When the news thai the Russians
evacuated all their positions along the
Shakhe and fled northward, leaving
their dead and many of their wounded.
together with quantities of clothing and
supplies behind, there was Il scene of
enthusiasm at the war office that beg
CARS description.
That kuroratkia was unable to hold
the Shakhe meant that Mukden was
no longer safe for him. With thai am
Gent city in the hands of Oyama, the
driving of the Russians out of Man.
Churla becomes a comparatively easy
task n the war 50 far as Japan is
concerned is won. as all that the
strategy board ever planned to do was
to clear Chinese territory of the Rus
slams.
kuropatkin Probably Surrounded.
st. Petersburg. March 1O.-The extent
of the disaster to Kuropatkin's army Is
as yet unknown here. but the most sim
lister reports receive credence. The
public believes that Oyama has sue
ceeded in closing his iron ring around
at least a large portion of the army.
Communication with Mukden is ap-