The Cooperstown courier. (Cooperstown, Griggs Co., N.D.) 1902-1913, 1905-03-16
|THE JAPANESE WIN
A Great VICTORY
RUSSIAN ARMY SUFFERS coM.
PLETE RoUT AND CITY OF
MUKDEN FALLS.
Kuropatkin in Full Retreat with Tie
Pass as His Goal-Battle One Of the
Greatest of Modern Times-Peace
Talk Follows Russian Defeat.

Toxic. March 11.--Mukden fell at ten.
O'Clock Friday morning. The Russians
are panic-stricken. Thousands of pris-s
oners and enormous quantities OF stores
and guns have been captured.
Fushun was occupied by the Japanese
Thursday night. The fighting continues
on the heights north.of Fushun.
oyama Tells Of Capture.
Field Marshal Oyama telegraphs as
follows under Fridays date: I'VE oc-
cupied Mukden at ten o'clock this morn
ing. Our surrounding movement, In
which we have been engaged for some
days past, has now completely succeed
ed. The fiercest fighting continues at
several places in the vicinity of Mukden.
We captured great number OF prison.
ers, enormous quantities Of arms, am
munition, provisions and other war sup
plies. There is at present no time to
investigate the number of these"
Theta Captured.
Toxic, March II. = The following
telegram has been received from the
Manchurian army headquarters in the
field: I'm the direction of Singching.
for some days our force has been attack,
ing the enemy, who is making an obstln-
ate resistance in strong positions. F1nal-
ly in the neighborhood of Theta our force
at three o'clock Thursday morning COM
pletely dislodged the enemy, whom they
are now pursuing. In the direction OF the
Shakhe and east and south of Mukden
We entirely pressed the enemy to the.
basin of the Hun river" y
Streets Filled with Dead.
Diushantun was the scene Wednes-
day of the bloodiest and most desperate
fighting of all this terrible battle. It's
possession was vital to the japanese.
who stormed it again and again. The
Russians dislodged them. but the jap
anese finally recapturede the village
after much hand-to-hand fighting. Eye
witnesses say the dead, scattered In the
streets, courtyards and houses, have
been unburied four days. Rifles and
other arms lie about wrenched and
twisted. Hand grenades were thrown by
the Japanese and the garrison was sub
iected to the concentrated fire of as many
as hundred guns.
st. Petersburg Knows Little.
st. Petersburg, March 11.-"Last night
all our armies commenced to retreat"
The greatest defeat in the history Of
the Russian-Japanese war was made
known in st. Petersburg last night, but
only in these paltry words from Gen.
Kuropatkin to Emperor Nicholas, which
were flung about the streets in newspa-
per extras and passed from mouth to
mouth. Two thoughts formed instantly
in the minds of everyone, and two words
were on every lip-surrender-peace-
the former dreaded, the latter hoped for.
Gen. Kuropatkin is no maker Of
phrases. His words never are quoted
like the famous "all is lost save honor"
but his laconic messages hide more than
probably any other two sentences in the
literature of war. st. Petersburg knows
nothing of the extent of the disaster, not
even the lines of Kuropatkin's retreat:
whether the route to Tie pass is still
open, whether he is endeavoring to cut
his way through to safety, or whether
as many of the pessimistic believe, he
has taken to the mountains. If 1t be the
latter, he will inevitably be hemmed in
and starved into surrender, as Marshal
Bazaine was at Metz.
Much Peace Talk.
Everyone is now discussing peace,
which many of the stanchest advocates
of the war, bureaucrats and officers, now
declare to he inevitable. 1t openly is
bruited that Rojestvensky's feet has
been recalled, and is now on the way
homeward. The admiralty, when asked
II the report were true, said: I'VE don't
know; call again Tomorrow" and de-
clined to comment on the significance of
the cancellation of the purchase Of col
Tiers, or the direction of Rojestvensky's
voyage from Madagascar waters. 1t can
be stated, however, that no oyertures for
peace yet have been made, and none are
likely to be made for a few days, before
the extent Of the disaster has developed.
Bloodiest Of the War.
Toxic, March 9-rhe great battle in
Manchuria ragged all day yesterday along
the entire enormous front. The Japan
ese we're generally victorious, and they
drove the Russians from series of i'm
portant positions. BY nightfall it
seemed imperative that Gen. Kuropat-
kin would have to withdraw his shat
tered legions to avoid a complete disas-
ter. Indeed, it appeared impossible for
him to effect retreat without heavy
losses of prisoners, guns and stores. The
continuous battle is already the blood
lest of the war. Upon the ground that
Gen. Oku alone gained lies 5000 Russian
dead. The reports from the other arm
les are expected to triple this figure. It
is estimated that the Japanese have lost
$4,000, making the joint slaughter far
exceed loo, 600 men. ,
Tragedy in Indiana
Fort Wayne, Ind, March M.-Joseph
Jobst, "A years old, driver Of q brew
cry wagon, shot his wife Friday and
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