Audubon Republican. [volume] (Audubon, Iowa) 1894-1925, 1905-03-23
GEN. L|NEv|TCH
IN COMMAND
Official Announcement of the
Change Has Been
Made.
RUSSIANS LOST LAST GUNS
Reported That Railroad Is Cut to the
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS Must Cut
His Way Through Gordon of Jap.
anese or Surrender.

St. Petersburg, March lit is
officially announced that General Ku-
ropatkin will be replaced by General
Linevitch as commander-in-chief OF
the Manchurian army.
London, March IA ST. Peters
burg dispatch to the Times gives un.
confirmed reports that the Russians
sustained severe reverse at Tie
pass, involving the abandonment OF
their remaining artillery, and that the
Japanese have cut the railway north
of Changtufu, forty miles above Tie
pass.
Toxic, March 1.-THE Japanese
captured many prisoners at Tie pass
and the Russians destroyed vast
stores.
London, March 17.-An uncon-
firmed report from st. Petersburg
states that General Kuropatkin will
retreat, not to Hardin, but to Kirin
and Vladivostok. This, however, is
regarded here as quite improbable,
and the ensuing fortnight is expected
to witness a keen race between the
Russians and Japanese for the great
railway bridge over the Sungari river,
as 1t is believed after Tie pass there
is no fortified place of sufficient
strength at which to make stand
until the Russians reach Hardin IL
Kuropatkin should be able to make a
successful retirement thither.
st. Petersburg, March 17.-General
In hn MI Of N
army which was defeated by Japanese
on the Shakhe and Hun rivers and
again around Mukden and Tie Pass,
are now in the mountains few miles
north Of the southern entrance to the
pass trying to shake off their pur-
suers, who apparently are not going
TO repeat the mistake of Lao Yang
and allow the Russian army to es-
cape. Kuropatldn has been rein
forced by the garrisons Of Telling and
other northern towns and few new
troops who were on their way from
Russia when the battle Of Mukden
began.
But even with these there seems
little hope for hiIl True, he has
some thirty or forty miles Of hilly
country, extending from Tie Pass to
Fengnuasien, which might enable
him to hold off the enemy for time,
but once out of the hills he has before
him nearly 800 miles of fiat, open
country and innumerable rivers and
streams to cross. The most import
ant Russian town between the Tie
pass and Hardin with the exception
of Kirin, which is not on the rail-
way, is Kwansuling. This town is a
little over 100 miles north of Tie pass.
Here were gathered great stores of
provisions along side OF which were
erected Red Cross hospitals, the best
by far that the Russians had south Of
Hardin. At all the other stations
there was also hospital accommoda-
tions, so that If Kuropatlin escapes
from Oyama at Tie pass he has a
good country to cross at the most
favorable season of the year. An.
other few weeks and the roads will
be impossible.
But If he is hard pressed there is
not defensible position, unless he
abandops the railway and seeks safe
ty in the eastern hills. Later in the
year, of course, the rivers would af-
ford some protection, but in winter
being frozen they are as easy to cross
as in the country. West of Hardin,
along the railway, the first hills are
encountered about midway between
Hardin and the Siberian border.
These mountains are most formiba.
BILE, several switchbacks and tunnels
being necessary to carry the railway
over them.