Columbia courier. [volume] (Kennewick, Wash.) 1902-1905, 1905-03-24
CARS men FLEEING
0YAMA TRYING To SURROUND
RUSSIAN RETREATING ARMY.
In Another Week It Is Expected Line
witch and His Army Will Have to
OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES Making Mast
erIy Get Away-British Experts
Think Cars Forces Will Escape.

1OhlO, March ll.-DeSplte 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 be stated upon exceptional au-
thority that the Japanese forces
operating against the Russians have
succeeded in carrying all points de-
cided as necessary by the commander
in chief and that within week news
of 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 a stubborn
resistance in which both sides lost
heavily.
Linevitch Reports to Gar.
st. Petersburg Commander in
Chief Linevitch, in telegram dated
Sunday, says:
"On March II japanese batteries
of Tavanpun and ianpu. The enemy
appeared near Kaotaitse Ton the rail-
road, about % miles north of Tie pass
and their cavalry had occupied Kako-
man. Our armies continue their con-
centration."
London.-The military experts of
the British empire, despite their pro-
Japanese leanings, admit that there is
still a chance that General Linevitch
will succeed in extricating his army
from its 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 a di-
vision to the aid of Nogi's veterans,
Kuropatkin might have secured COM
plete victory. Had the Russian COM
mander possessed sufficient initiative
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 a
race for Hardin, and that neither have
any decided advantage. There is rea-
son to believe that the Japanese re-
ports to the erect that Japanese
army had succeeded in getting to the
northwestward of the retreating Rus
SLAMS is not true and that the most
that has been done is to send a scout
ing party in so far as the railroad
without any supports or supplies and
absolutely unable to hold their lines
intact against any large force of Rus
SLAMS.
The reason for this belief is that
numerous press dispatches, filed at
the stations Immediately north of Muk-
den, were delivered in st. Petersburg
on Sunday. While they covered most
ly accounts of the fighting from March
6 to IS, the mere fact that they have
reached the Russian capital would in
dictate that the Manchurian railway
lines of retreat are still open.
That the japanese will try to take
Hardin is sure, but the result of the
Russian resistance must remain prob
lematic until such time as it is learned
just how large quantity of supplies
General Kuropatkin lost.