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san force, winch appear 10 nave NUM-
bered about $4,000 men, with ninety
guns, met Oku's army near Telissu, OF
Vafangow, q point on the railway about
fifty miles north OF kinchau.
0utnumbered In men and guns, and
outmaneuvered by his opponent, Stakel.
berg was forced to retreat, abandon.
ing sixteen guns and leaving. 1854 dead
FAC. Oku lost 217 killed and 90s
wounded.
stakelberg and his broken force re.
tired to Kaiping, while kuropatkin col.
lected his forces in the neighborhood
OF Ltaoyang, where 1t was evident that
the first great stand would be made by
the army that had advanced from Muk.
den, the troops that had retreated from
the Yalu, and those which had been In
occupation OF Newchwang and the low.
er reaches OF the Liau river.
Fleets Try to Escape.
That the Russians in Port Arthu,
were aware OF the seriousness OF the!z
position was shown by the attempt
which was made by the feet or the 22d
and 23d of June to escape from thu
harbor. In spite of the eighteen YES.
sells sunk in he entrance the whole
great feet made its way out, though
moving slowly M steered due south
for the Shantung peninsula.
For some hours 1t seemed as though
the long expected great naval battle
was about to take place at last. The
fleets were getting within range, but at
9 o'clock in the evening 1.-The Russian
admiral's heart failed him, and, put
ting over his helm, he steered directly
to port" The Japanese d%estroyers at
once dashed in Inc did some damage,
though once more the ships managed to
find their way back to the harbor, re-
serving themselves for the inglorious
fate which was to befall them towards
the end Of the year.
from Port Arthur Con August 10Y, but,
like those which had preceded it, the
attempt failed. Admiral Witsoeft was
Killed, and, d~isobeying what appears to
nave been the emperor's order, nearly
all the ships returned to harbor. The
exceptions were the Czarevitch, which
cached the German port of Tsingtau,
where 1t was disarmed, the cruisers
Askold and Diana, which were dis
armed, respectively, in Shanghai and
saigon, and the cruiser Novik, which
fed towards Vladivostok and ten days
later was destroyed by two japanese
SHIPS IN korsakovsk harbor. Saghalin.
Four days after the Port Arthur sor-
tie h Vladivostok cruisers, whose
raids had caused so much damage,
were met and defeated by Admiral
kamimura. The Rurik was sunk, but
the two others, in a crippled condition,
escaped to V~ladivostok.
Russian Armies Assemble.
By the last wee of June Kuropatkin
found himself faced by three japanese
armies, Of which two had already won
easy victories. ver his men. Kuroki
had advanced from the southeast, after
capturing three important passes,
which were scarcely defended at all;
Oku, the victor of Nanshan and Tells
su, cid the left; and Nodzu, in COM
mand of the japanese fourth army.
which a landed at Takushan, held the
center OF their position.
kuropatkin had been subjected to a
great deal of criticism for his refusal
to take the offensive. Russian prestige
nae suffered seriously throughout civ
iization, first by naval disasters, and,
second, by the constant. although slow,
retrograde movement OF The land
forces. From st. Petersburg Kuropat-
kin was subjected to constant pressure
to take the offensive, and thus check
the steady advance of the japanese
columns.
Kuropatkin yielded finally to this
pressure, and on July II General Count
Kellar, one of the ablest commanders
IN the Russian army, was sent to at
tack Kuroki's position in the FenRshui
or Molten pass. Kellar had q $1,000 men
and t%wenty-four guns. He failed and
was driven back, losing 1000 men.
11e retreated to Yantze pass and forth
fed.
III the meantime Oku was advancing
steadily northward. On July % he at
tackled General Z~aronbaien's position
before T~ashichiao. turned his enemy's
flank. and compelled the Russians to
Forced out of these positions, the Rus
slams were compelled to evacuate New.
chang, and thus lose touch with the
sea. The loss OF Newchang was a Sc
rious blow, for 1t cut off Kuropatkin,s
last base On the Chinese coast and de-
receiving by the railroad to Picking.
The Japanese pressure was exerted
steadily northward. On July 81 Kur-
ok attacked the Russians at Yantze
pass: General Count Kellar met his
death in the engagement. His forces.
defeated, retired toward Liaoyang.
At the same time Oku and Nodzu
made q combined attack on the Rus
sian right. fifteen miles below Hail
cheng, and turned their enemy north
ward. The Russians abandoned Hal
cheng on August 2. Kuroki had lost
2.400 men. to say nothing Of the casual
ties in the armies of Nodzu and Oku.
but the three generals had cleared
the way for the great battle of Lao
yang.
Battle Of Liaoyana.
The battle of Liaoyang was up to the
time 1t was fought the greatest battle
OF modern history. It continued with
out interruption for ten daye-and the
ten days We're filed with the hercest
lighting that the world has seen since
the American civil war. For desperate
attacks, for strenuous defense, for
fEdogged determination on the part Of
both armies, and for personal bravery,
this battle with modern OF
precision was as remarkable az any OF
the old short distance conflicts Of mus
ket and bayonet. One looks back to
the battles round Metz. to Sadowa, to
Gettysburg, n to the Napoleonic CAM
paigns for a worthy precedent to this
gigantic struggle, in which half a mill
lion men were engaged and thirteen
hundred guns.
The Russian army held a line along
a front of twenty-five miles, between
Anshanshan on the railroad north ia
Haicheng and Anping, to the northeast
and almost directly east Of LiayanR,
The bulk OF kuropatkin's army ex-
tended along a semi-cIrcle OF hills
twelve miles from south and east Lao
yang. Back Of him Kuropatkin had the
railroad leading to the north and the
Tattze river. He had las, 600 to 10000
men, with 400 guns.
Kuroki held the japanese right,
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