The Montgomery advertiser., 1905-03-20

which had fallen off strew the roads. There is bursting shrapnel everywhere; six horses were killed a hundred feet away. A wagon train ahead had stop ped and two soldiers are quarreling planitively about horse feed. Dead and wounded are passing on the shoulders of soldiers or in mule filters, carts. wagons or Chinese vehicles Here one Russian and one Japanese wounded. side by side, feed each other: there lie seven little Japanese wounded, to whom big Russians are kindly attentive. In the soft sunshine grave diggers are at work on all the roadways. Japanese officers who had been taken prisoners are seen in the streets of the settlement Everywhere are evidences that the two great than ever before"
 In the concluding portion of a des- patch from Tie Pass, the first part of which was published March II, the correspondent states that according to information the Japanase strength in Mukden was eighty battalions less than that of the Russians. The Japanese also were inferior in guns at many places. The number of men at the be- ginning of the battle was TOO, 900, man. ming the greatest field works ever con- StTuCteO. NOL only m QuratlOn anu the number of troops and guns engaged did the battle exceed all of the former contests, but also in expenditure of ammunition, the accumulated stores of which were so enormous that after a continuous artillery fire of ten days both sides were still able to continue
 Describing the retreat the dispatch pictures debris strewn along the road, marching soldiers including their loads by spearing bread. vegetables or fruit on their bayonets at the same time dis carding heavy boots. Chinese garments, knapsacks and blankets. The corre- spondent then continues:
 After the initial excitement at Tava, where a few wagoners plunged with out reason, over impossible gulches. the entire body arrived at the steep banks of the Pu River, where heavy artillery hastened down upon che wa ter-cover ice, which slowly geVe way and tremendous exertion was required in getting the guns out and up the further bank. the men in the little gorge getting into a white heat of ex- citement.
 The passage of a division through the retreating column en route to the southwest to strengthen the right flank gave confidence of short duration, for Japanese cavalry. breaking trough above Tie Pass, overlook us at Sam taitse. The road and fields are solid mass of transports and the dust is so formidable that II Is impossible to see a hundred yards. Japanese grenades gave the initial impression of shrapnel and, with rife, set the mass into con- fusion. Daybreak disclosed the plain covered with riderless horses horseless vehicles, fragments of harness, heaps of stores and furniture. Night found the army bravely bivouacing in bare plains. swept by a cold, searching wind, with not a solitary dugout to shelter them. but preparing a new position"
 Under date of Kaiyuan, March Is, the correspondent says:
 The Russian army east of the point where the Japanese pierced the line at Flu Pass was entirely unaffected by con- fusion during March 10. Fully two battalfons of mixed troops escaped north by rail, and were found at Gun shu Pass, 165 miles northward. The Japanese in battle employed phenome- nal innovations unknown to European military practice, showing that they are not mere copyists. One Japanese de- tachment had the Russians beaten near the northern tombs and could have en- tered Mukden two days earlier, but re- treated.
 When the army arrived at Tie Pass everything was inadequate to the wants of the occasion. The city was filled with troops. crowding every available space. and even now there is nothing better to accommodate the army"