Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-10
Japanese Troops Occupied Mukden This Morning.

Il Tatchekiao. Eight thousand Rus
Ians fell al Leukuanpao
2ed condition to the hill country to-
Yards the northeast
Detached bodies OF Russians are
oughly entrenchng with view TO
hecking the pursuit, but no great rear
ward action Is being fought,
lt Will be impossible for the Russians
o keep up any sort OF resistance for
many days, as there are no means OF
provisioning In the rough country to
,hch they are rotreatng.
II is believed thit the Russians may
lttempt TO reach Kirin, 225 miles north
cast OF Mukden, through the valleys,
nut special japanese corps from the
falu river (probably Gen Kawamura's
lcrces), threatens to cut them off.
Gen. Kurokl is advancing northwest
nd is forcing the Russians against
Cen. Nogi's army.
The casualties on both sides have
been enormous The Russian sixteenth
NATURE TOOK A HAND.
Mukden, Thursday March o, mid
night. filed at s a. m. March l0--Nature
today raised her hand again against
the wholesale slaughter west and
northwest Of Mukden, the hurricane of
Wind which has been raging since
morning having raised a binding dust
storm upon the broad fiat lao river
valley In which II was impossible, at
times, TO see at distance Of 200 PAGES.
Unable TO distinguish detectives both
armies necessarily ceased to large eX-
tent their artillery and rifle fire and
strange boding OF quiet reigned along
the western and northern fronts, There
IL strong reason to believe, however,
that the japanese columns spent the
day In an unintermittent movement
northward to occupy positions for a
stu more vigorous attack on the rail-
road the minute the storm clears. The
situation Is too extremely serious TO
discuss and owing to the censorship
in the malls cannot be given, but In
general, the line held by the Japanese
yesterday, west and northwest were
as follows;
LINE HELD BY JAPANESE.
Beginning at the village Of Suhetun,
on the Hun river and running north
through the village OF Lifuyantun, six
miles west Of Mukden railroad station
to Tatchiekiao then turning north
west along the valley OF the Pu river
to the village Of Taudyatun, nine miles
north-northeast of Mukden and six
miles west of the railroad, and thence
continuing generally northward to-
ward Tie pass.
In places the Japanese bent their
lines sharply inward as at the i'm
peral tombs which their shells are
reaching and where the railroad turns
eastward,
one small body of japanese crossed
the railroad to the east OF the line.
Beyond this scene columns of Japan
csc with artillery were moving north
one after another and the evacuation
Of Mukden became imperative. All
day long military trains We're depart
ing northward and the railroad line
was closed to civilian and passenger
traffic.
Both the railroad and telegraph lines
were several times damaged by the
Japaonse whose shells reached the
railroad The Red Cross, both nurses
and surgeons, distinguished themselves
by working under fire and a regiment
OF the imperial rifles fought with IN
describabe valor. The double eagle
on top the standard of this regiment
was carried away by a shell and
should II Is claimed here, be replaced
by a st. Georges cross which every
survivor earned. The commissarlat
arrangements We're working better
than expected In the face of such bat
tie, the troops receiving hot victuals,
WORST FEARS CONFIRMED.
ST. Petersburg, March 10, p. M
The dispatches of the Associated Press
from Toxic and Yinkow today, an
nouncing that Mukden had fallen and
that the Japanese had captured thous-
10 ~ f,pieAnnrG md
titles of stores and guns, only confirm
the worst fears entertained here, the
dispatches OF the Associated Press re-
celved here last night having shown
that the trap was sprung.
The announcement furnished mis-
cradle end to the Russian carnival
week.
END OF A HOLIDAY.
This being holiday the war Office
was closed to the public, hundreds OF
people I'm quest of news besleging the
doors In vain, Inside the gloom was In
tense. Ofl,cers stood around discuss
ing the catastrophe seemingly without
a ray of hope. At 4 o'clock the officer
Of the general stan who gives out OH
cial dispatches, approached a group of
waiting foreign correspondents and
said disconsoately:
mo dispatches from Kuropatkin to-
day." That was all. Usually he had
been ready to offer explanations, but to-
day he said in reply to all inquiries'
I'VE have absolutely nothing
Another officer who was asked by
the correspondent of the Associated
Press for his opinion of the report that
the major portion of the armies OF
Gems Bilderling and kaulbars We're
cut off. said he thought that consider
Ing the situation last night anything
was possible. II was his Idea that
Kuropatkin may have deliberately sac
rifced 100000 men by hurting two or
three corps at the japanese In order to
bring off the bulk Of his shattered
army.
The official reports which have ar
rived are being held at the Tsarskoe-
selo, where council of war is In pro-
gress. They will be given out later
Ii Is very questionable II large por-
ton Of the Russian army has been
made prisoners and also whether kuro-
patkin win attempt TO make stand at
Tie pass. although the place offers nat
ural advantages for defense and be-
sides has been fortified.