Deseret evening news. [volume] (Great Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1867-1920, 1905-03-04
He HAS been BADLY BEATEN.
lapanes. Hay rokeu Through RUS
sian Lett Wing, Cutting IL
Oh From Army.
RUSSIANS syACUATE GAorU PASS
Fighting on Right Left and Center,
Resulting 10 Steady Gains
For the laps

Berlin, March IA dispatch TO the
Tagblatt from st. Petersburg says;
Gen. Kuopatkn. IN a telegram which
arrived here at 7 o'clock last evening
said 100000 japanese had broken
through the Russian left wing, and that
it was cut of from the remainder OF
the army,
At 10 o'clock came another dispatch
from Gen. Kuropatkin, which read
1.-THE Japanese are marching on Muk-
den. My position is extremely dam
gerous,"
In government circles here today
there is a conviction that Gen. Kuro-
patkIn has been fully beaten, that part
Of his army has been dispersed, and
that the railroad north OF Mukden will
probably be cut
BATTLE OF ENORMOUS PRoPOR-
TIONS,
st. Petersburg, March T. s p. m.--
The battle raging at the front has as
sumed enormous proportions. Already
one of the Associated Press Russian
correspondents places the Russian
losses at 10000 men and those OF the
Japanese at 10000. II Is added that
the attempt 10 draw a net around Gen.
Kuropatkln has not yet succeeded, but
| Il is stated that the Japanese from Sin
| Min Tin are attempting by forced
marches to cut the Russian line Of
| communications
RUSSIANS QUIT GAoTU PASS.
st. Petersburg. March 4-Gen. Kuro-
patkin says that the Russians have
been compelled to evacuate their posi-
! tion at Gaotu pass.
Gen. l6urok according to the latest
reports, is stalled by the Russian LETT.
but the Russian center Is Yielding
| slowly before the Japanese onslaughts.
/ ON Thursday Field Marshal Oyamn
shifted the weight to his left, seeking
to enVelop the Russian hght eight
| miles southwest OF Mukden. In the
hand to hand fighting which followed
ana continued for four hours the loss
| on both sides was enormous. But the
most serN,us news Is the report that
Tho Japanese attacking column at sin
Min Tin, about 80 miles west OF Muk-
den. has devided part Of 1t moylns
straight east to roll IN the Russian
right wing, while the other Is making
forced marches north with the evident
nuruose OF cutting the Russian line
OF communications with Tie Pass ana
closing the line Of retreat Should the
operntions proyc successful the Russian
army might be surrounded
A HOT ENGAGEMENT.
Gen. Kurokrs Headquarters In the
Field. via Fusan Friday. March u
The hotly contested engagement waged
since midnight across the shakhe river
from WitOsan Is still proceeding late
this afternoon under conditions entail
ing great hardshlps upon the attack
ing force and favorng those defending
the entrenchments
large Japanese contingent which
crossed the plain directly west OF VITO
san I'm darkness succeeded IN gaining
the FIRST line Of the Russian trenches 10
the great establishment Of the Russians,
The Russians have since been making
n fierce resistance IN the second line OF
the trenches on The SUBMITS OF the
foothills and the Japanese are attack
ing them spiritedly The night was bit-
tery cold and today II is freezing and
"A thin film OF snow covers the earth.
The japanese are Obliged 10 wear the
heaviest clothing, which, with the cold
and continuing snow nlrries handicaps
STEADY JAPANESE GAIN
TOXIC. March 4 4 p NIT was an
nouucod today from the headquarters
Of the Jupauesc armies In Manchurln
that the nghting ON the right, center
ana left Us resulting in gtendy Jnpn
ucse gains The japanese Il is added
have defeated the huslsaus at slnmln-
;ln.
HEAVY ARTILLERY FIRE
Gen. Kurokrs Headquarters In the
Field, via Fuslu March 1.-THE Rus
alan artillery Kept up heavy FIRE on
the Japanese guns most Of the day and
also fred schr1puel az the attackins
forces The Japanese are gathered on
the slopes so cltso 10 tho Russian
trenches that IN some places their mr.
tlllery cannot give the best support
The Russians have largely abandoned
their method OF vollcy firing.
II Is believed that the Japanese At
tack viii succeed.
RUSSIANS HOLDING ON
Mukden, March 4, I o. m.-The Rus
slams are holding on desperately 10
their positions Although the hghtinG
has now been In progress six days the
officers here are mystned as to wheth.
4 err tho actions at the wings are not be-
Ing demonstrations 10 facilitate thg
chief object OF the Japanese to break
through the Russian center, or N Il Is
4 Field Marshal Oyama's intention &c
turn Mukden, on which side Is the rea
movement. and on which the fent.
ono ~ Gen. Kuropatkin's stan ON
GERS said 10 the Associated Press,
"Oyamas strategy is 10 break thu
center and then lnclose the wings anC
compel demoraliztd retreat, but until
. now the Japanese attacks against th'