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 reserves might have been able to turn the tide at Mukden. Good generalship and good fortune made history other wise. KuropatlSin had hurried his re- serves from Mukden east to Fushun as the Japanese had planned that he should, and then hurried them back to Mukden, but only too late. The Jap anese center army from Kurokis left was pushing past Mukden to the north and Kuroki's left division was march, ing still further north, protecting it's right flank. Having lost the Hunho the Russian central army left Mukden to its fate and continued in it's disor- derly retreat to Tieling. That all their dead were left where they fell showed what the retreat had become. On the morning of the 10th the left division again encountered the Russian rear guard in considerable force northeast of Mukden. and as the Russians at tempted to make a stand they were beaten in two engagements, and in the afternoon the division arrived at the town of San-a, ten miles beyond Muk- den, on the main road from Mukden to Tieling.
 CAPTURE OF TELLING.
 Until the 10th the army had been pushed forward day and night in the face of every difficulty. to draw the attention of the Russians from Muk- den. and the men were nearly ex- hausted from their forced march. The military roads from Fushun to Tieling wound along the plains, among sharp hills, and the division followed this to get to the north of Mukden, while Gen. eral Linevitch took most of his men directly north. through the mountains with the Japanese right army pursu- ing. Several times the Japanese had brushes with the r-guard, but no important action until the 14th, when they approached the range of high, steep hills seven miles southeast of Tieling, which was strategically the strongest defense of the city. There was a broad level plain in front of the hills and no avenue of approach for an attacking force except to cross this plain under such cover as could be found in the gullies and behind occa- sional ridges. Consequently 1t was de- cided to attempt the night attack with the bayonet once more, and thus the first line of trenches below the hills was gained. For the general advance on the morning of the 14th two battal- ions were assigned for a frontal at tack, one for a diversion on the right, and the largest force, of eight, on the left.
 A direct charge upon the main trenches was impossible, because the slope before them was almost too steep to be scaled even with no resistance. A lower hill to the west. and in front. was vulnerable on its west flank, and after an artillery engagement the main body occupied this. Night stopped the fighting, and before morning the Rus sians had retired in haste, leaving 200 dead, while the Japanese had 500 cas- ualties. The last stand of the Rus sians before Tieling was on a chain of hills 5000 metres southeast of the city, equipped elaborately with a long chain of trenches and well constructed gun positions, in which they held twenty four guns. While the general of divi- sion was reconnoitering the positions on the afternoon of the 18th another 1 Japanese brigade from the south began to engage one of the Russian batteries l This partly exposed the Russian flank | to the enemy, and thirty-six Japanese l guns were concentrated in a lombard ment of that position. Darkness again ! interrupted the work after an hours | bombardment, and again the Russians retreated. abandoning without serious resistance their most valuable depot | between Mukden and Harbin. which was their strongest military position as well. General Kuropatkin had beer there in his special train until the af- ternoon of the 18th, it was said. Wher | the first Japanese company entered the settlement, at l o'clock in the morn | ing. they captured the station master and two other officers who had beer left with orders to apply the torch al the last moment. but only a few build ings were burned. and there were valu- able stores of munitions undamaged.
 THE FINAL CHAPTER.
 No more dramatic encounter occurred during this eYentful week than the cap ture of the Fifth and Nineteenth regi
 ments of Russian Rifles by Kurokii left division on the morning of tn
 11th. In the panic which prevailed a
 Mukden, these two regiments left at
 o'clock in the morning with no genera commanding them, and a mixed crowt
 of soldiers from other organization
 and camp followers attaching them !, selves to the retreat. When the tw
 forces discovered one another the,
 quickly formed into fighting line, am the Russians came on with the officer
 in front of the ranks to cut their wa,
 through. The contact was so suddel
 that there was confusion at first, il
 which the Japanese general and hi
 staff with two foreign attaches. cam
 under the fire of the Japanese rifles an
 guns. The fight was short and decisive
 The Russians could not stand in tn
 open fields under the shrapnel, an