The Corvallis times. (Corvallis, Or.) 1888-1909, 1905-02-01
HIS LINE CUT. ]. .
KUROPATKIN'S S. ADVANCE
MAYssCUT ,GOMMUNI-
CATIONS.

e Rnssian Commander HISS a
Large Army, but Japanese
Claim Success at One
Point.
s st. Petersburg, Jan. 20.-Ac-
Icording to reports current in mill
|tary circles, General Kuropatkin
has broken through Field Marshal
Oyama's left wing and threatens
his COMMUNICATIONS with Yinkaw.
Whether or not the report is true,
the Associated Press learns from q
high military source that General
Kuropatkin has undertaken a gem
eral offensive movement on both
tanks, with the object Of threaten
ing both lines Of Japanese COM
munication and forcing the Japan
ese from their Winter quarters.
The information Of the Associated
Press said:
| AFTER General MistcheDka,s raid,
General Kuropatkin decided that
EOyama's position could be turned.
westward from the plains. Thesad-s
vance has absolutely no connection
with events In European Russia.
.If, as has been reported, the,
Russians have already succeeded
lin piercing the Japanese left, they
DOUBTLESS will be able to reach q.
point west of Lao osang, in which.
ease the Japanese will be- ontHank. !.
ed. A similar movement south
ward from Bentsiaputze wi II strike
the japanese line Of communica-
tions toward the Yalu. Although
cold, the weather is Ideal for CAM
paigning. The ground is hard and
the river is frozen solid, making the
movement Of artillery easy.
4 No other official news was reeeiy-
Led from the front Saturday night.
+ Kuropatkin has something short
Fef 300, 900 men and over loo gune,
| Including number of six-inch, in
lgosition on his cen er. The troops
engaged oR the right, in additio
to general Mistchenko's and Gener-
al Rennenkampff's cavalry, are be-
lieved to be principally Siberian
! and part of the First-European ar.
ittillery. - -
Mukden, Jan. 28.-The. mos'
important cannonade since the frs
battle on the Shakhe river was
maintained all yesterday in CON
tinuous snow storm, against thu
! Japanese left, which Field Marsha
|Oyama has been reinforcing will
troops from Port Arthur since Gen
|eral Mistchenko's raid.
The attack was centered abou
seven miles west of Shakhe station
: andait resulted in the Japanes
withdrawal from Holantai ane
{ Funshuang- Chiatzu., which tb'
Russisns have occupied.
q The cannonading and v-snoV
storm continues undiminished to
day. It is considerably colder.
The cannonading indicates tha
an extended contest is progressing
The driving wind and snow favo'
the Russians, thus .offsetting tn
advantage the Japanese had las
October, when the sun shone in to-
Russians eyes.
Today reports indicate that ia
Japanese are continuing to
back, while the Russian cavalry
is understood, advanced its il {
ten miles.
The Japanese yesterday few
large kite into the Russian lines
The kite was covered with photo
tgraphs showing the treatment Q
Russian prisoners in Japan. /
was evidently intended to attrac
the Russian soldiers. On Januar,
81 there was heavy cannonade o,
the right flank. It subsidized entire
ly shortly afternoon and quiet no,
continues throughout the cente
& and right:
y Berlin, Jan. 28.-Foreign res
4 dents in St. Petersburg are begir
( ming to arrive in, Berlin to AVA
Z developments. Some American
Z and Englishmen who are oblige
J to remain there to attend to bus
y ness are sending their families here
s. The opinion of the arrivals is ths
{. the present half-calm Is only a p
< riod of preparations for greater r
z ristance to the government, and th'
X active smuggling of arms and d,
y namite is going on across. the Au
\ trian frontier. St.P Petersburg Soc
K ETY. shares the belief that more 8