The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-03-09
KUR0PATKlN' ARMY
/ on ' VERGE OF Defeat
THE JAPs CUT OFF THE LEFT
WING AND MARCH ON
'eA~s-@sT1 YITKDEHT -sssse as-.
A CORRESPONDENT RE-
PORTS ENORMOUS LOSSES
Japanese Casualties Placed at 40, 600;
Russian at $4,000 Cars Men
Fight Desperately, But Enemy
Gains Steadily.
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Tageblatt from ST. Petersburg says:
Gen. Kuropatkin, in a telegram which
arrived here Friday evening, said 260, 900
Japanese had broken through the Rus
sian left wing and that it was cut off
from the remainder of the army. The
Japanese are marching on Mukden. Ny
position is extremely dangerous
In government circles here there is q
conviction that Gen. Kuropatkin has
been fully beaten, that part of his army
has been dispersed and that the railroad
north of Mukden will probably be cut.
Losses Enormous.
st. Petersburg, March - The battle
raging at the front has assumed enor-
nous proportions. Already one of the
Russian correspondents places the Rus
sian losses at 10000 men and those of
the japanese at 10000. 1t is added that
the attempt to draw a net around Gen.
Kuropatkin has not yet succeeded, but
it is said that the Japanese from Sinmin-
tin are attempting to force marches to
cut the Russian line of communications.
Gen. Kuroki. according to the latest re-
ports, is stalled by the Russian left, but
the Russian center is yielding slowly
before the Japanese onslaughts., Gen.
Kuropatkin reports that the Russians
have been compelled to evacuate their
position at Gaotu pass.
Japs Gaining Steadily.
TOXIC March 6. = 1t was announced
co4,,rdo,, f.o,,o tho hoo 4 o,,o ,,foro ~ tn,
japanese armies in Manchuria that the
fighting on the right, center and left is
resulting in steady Japanese gains. The
Japanese, it is added, have defeated the
Russians in Stnmintin.
Object Of Japs Unknown.
Mukden, March 6. The Russians are
holding on desperately to their posi-
lions. Although the fighting has now
been in progress six days the officers
here are mystified as to whether the
actions at the wings are not big demon
STATIONS to facilitate the chief object
of the Japanese, that of breaking
through the Russian center, or, if it is
Field Marshal Oyama's real intention to
turn Mukden; on which side is the real
movement and on which the feint.
One of Gen. Kuropatkin's staff officers
said: "Oyama's strategy is to break
the center and then inclose the wings
and compel a demoralized retreat, but
till now the Japanese attacks against
the center have been only measurably
successful. Sanlinpou. which is the
key to our position on the right flank,
was the scene of awful carnage Friday
night. The japanese concentrated on
it the fire Of over a hundred guns and
then attacked with the bayonet Accord
ing to the reports coming in they were
repulsed and in counter attack we
captured seven machine guns" Trains
are leaving Mukden ceaselessly for the
north with wounded men and stores.
More Troops Landed.
Vladivostok, March 6.-Two thousand
Japanese troops have been landed at
Shengudshin, northward of Korea, to
which place they were conveyed by
steamers from warships. A flotilla of
torpedo boats covered the landing.