The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-10
The Russian Stronghold Was Occupied
at 10 O'clock Today.
Thousands of Prisoners and Quantities
of Stores Captured.
RUSSIANS PANIC STRICKEN
japanese Have Fought for Days With
out Rest or Food.
Marshal Oyama Promised the City
Should Be Theirs Today.
Fushun Has Fallen Into the Hands of
the Victors.

fic. Both the railroad and telegraph
lines were several times damaged by
the Japanese whose shells reached the
The Red Cross both nurses and sur
geons distinguished themselves by
working under fire and regiment of
the imperial rifles fought with inde-
scribable valor. The double eagle on
top of the standard of this regiment
was carried away by a shell, and should,
it is claimed here, be replaced by
St. Georges cross which every survivor
earned.
The eommissariat arrangements were
working better than expected in the
face OF such a battle, the troops receiv-
ing hot Victuals-
An Incident of the Battle.
Mukden, Thursday, March 80 a.
m.-The japanese last night pushed
up from the south across the ADAM
dcned plain between the Shakhe and
Hun rivers and are, as this dispatch
is filed, about five miles south of the
latter and from the Hun, opposite
Machiapu, and northward japanese
batteries are pouring in a ceaSelesS
fire. The Japanese succeed in en-
placing siege guns and mortars at
D1uShantun about SIX miles west OF
this city, whence they opened fire be-
fore dawn. Diushantun was the Scene
yesterday OF the bloodiest and most
desperate fighting of all this terrible
battle It's possession was vital to tie
/ japanese who stormed it again and
again The Russians dislodged them
but the Japanese finally recaptured
the village after much hand to hand
| fighting
! Eye witnesses say the dead scat
/ tered in the streets, court yards and
/ houses have been unburied four days.
Rifles and other arms lie about
Wrenched and twisted. Hand gren-
AIDES were thrown by the Japanese
and the garrison was subjected to the
| concentrated fire of as many as q
! hundred guns Once Diushantun in
| their hands the Japanese can train
1 guns on Mukden railroad station and
/ it has been held at a frightful cost.
/ The japanese are also concentrating
| their efforts about seven miles north
of Mukden and about five miles west
of the railroad with the object OF
breaking through and cutting off the
troops below
A binding dust storm has been rag
/ ing since daylight and the day prom
ises to witness a most grewsorne en-
county, the result of which no one
here can fOresee.
Where Is Kawamura?
London, March 1O.-In the opinion
of English military critics General
/ KurOpatkin'S forces are doomed to
complete disaster. Careful study of
all the possible avenues of escape and
| the disposition of the victorious Jap
anese armies leads to the conclusion
| that the best KuroDatkin can do is to
save a mere remnant of his army
! after devOting whole devisions to
| slaughter. Much Importance is at
| tached to General Kawamura'S S nys-
| terlouS INDICATED army, which IS mo-
mentarily expected to complete the
/ closing of the net around the defeated
host by appearing somewhere in the
extreme east in the neighborhood of
| Kingrun, thus blocking the sole re-
/ naming route from Yingfan to Tie
pass through VankiakOu pass.
The Daily Telegraph, in an editorial
article well rejecting the general
opinion here, says.
The greatest battle in the worlds
history promise to end in the world 5
/ greatest military disaster. Even if
! kuropatki succeeds in snatching half
his host from the terrible ring of fire
how can Russia hope to send out an
4 other army to renlenish his ranks
The sword is being wrested from Rus
sia's fumbling hands. Kuropatkin' s
disastrous defeat ought to mean the
end of the war unless the cars blind
ness IS lncurable and he waits for
further sledge hammer blows to fall.
inevitable as those of fate"
The correspondent at Toxic of the
/ Daily Telegraph says an official au-
thority that fully 200, 900 Russians
are enveloped and he hears that Rus
sia s central army is almost an
initiated.
Beaten by a Wonderful Foe.
St Petersburg March 1O.=An ac-
counts agree that the battle yesterday
morning must have been fought un-
der dreadful conditions A dust storm
of hurricane violence was blowing
concealing friend and foe while
/ through the opaque yellow veil the
streams of wounded and camp fol-
lowers plodded northward
The war Office this morning had
little consolation to offer the pitiful
inquiries for news The papers are
filled with long lists OF those killed