Camas Prairie chronicle. [volume] (Cottonwood, Idaho) 1901-1917, 1905-03-24
CZAR'S MEN FLEEING
OYAMA TRYING TO SURROUND
RUSSIAN RETREATING ARMY.
In Another Week II Is Expected Line
witch and HE Army viii Have 10
surrender Russians Making Mast
erly Get Away-Rrltish Experts
Think Cars Forces viii Escape.

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Think Cars Forces viii Escape.
Toxic, March 21.Despite the opti-
mistic advices that have been received
from Russian sources during the last
few days to the effect that the Russian
army in northern Manchuria will sue
coed in escaping the forces of Oyama,
it can bel stated upon exceptional au-
thority that the Japanese forces
operating against the Russians have
succeeded in carrying all points oe-
cided as necessary by the commander
in chief and that within a week news
Of a momentous character will be re-
ported in the front. A dispatch from
Marshal Oyama, received early this
morning, states that the Japanese have
occupied Kaiyuen, after stubborn
resistance in which both sides lost
heavily.
Linevltch Reports to Gear.
st. Petersburg. Commander in
Chief Linevitch, in a telegram dated
Sunday. says:
ION March II Japanese batteries
bombarded our divisions in the valleys
of Tayanpun and Yanpu. The enemy
appeared near Kaotaitse (on the rail-
road, about 20 miles north of Tie pass)
and their cavalry had occupied Kako-
man. Our armies continue their con
centration.
General Lineviteh Has a Chance.
London. The military experts Of
the British empire, despite their pro
Japanese leanings, admit that there is
stin a chance that General Linevitch
will succeed in extricating his army
from it's present perilous position,
They base their opinions on the re-
ports that have come from the front
by both Japanese and Russian soldiers
to the effect that the Japanese were
so badly pressed at the battle of Muk
den that for "a hours the fate Of the
Japanese army hung in the balance.
But for the fact that General Oku
despite the knowledge that his last
reserves were engaged, detached di
vision to the aid Of Nogi's veterans
Kuropatl1in might have secured a com
plete victory. Had the Russian com
mander possessed sufficient initiative
he would have drawn his last reserves
into the battle, and must surely have
checked the desperate Japanese ad
vance.
1t is believed here that the japanese
and Russians are now engaged in /;
race for Hardin, and that neither hav.
any decided advantage. There is rea
son to believe that the Japanese re
ports to the erect that a Japanes,
army had succeeded in getting to tn,
northwestward of the retreating Rus
slams is not true and that the mos
that has been done is to, send scout
ing party in so far as the railroad
without any supports or supplies anC
absolutely unable to hold their line
intact against any large force of Rus
SLAMS.
The reason for this belief is tina
numerous press dispatches, filed a
the stations Immediately north of Muk
den, were delivered in st. Petersburg
on Sunday. While they covered most
~ accounts of the fighting from Marcl
to is, the mere fact that they hav'
reached the Russian capital would in
dictate that the Manehurian railwa!
lines of retreat are stiil open.
That the Japanese will try to tak'
Hardin is sure, but the result of th'
Russian resistance must remain prob
lematic until such time as it is learned
just how large quantity of supplies
General Kuropat1in lost.