The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-20
AMID LIVING AND DEAD.
Delayed Dispatches Give Description
of Scenes During Retreat.

St Petersburg, March ~. 80 a. M
q shcaf of belated Associated Press
dispatches filed at Mukden. Tie Pass
and kaiyuan reached st. Petersburg
last evening, having been discovered
among other papers committed to the
censor at the front, where they had
lain from a week to twelve days.
Writing under date of March s, the
correspondent mentions that General
kuropatkiu's confident declaration Of
satisfaction with the situation had
Eteadied and cnCOuraE cd the army after
eight days battle. until the wounded.
exceeding i'm number those OF the battle
Of LiaONauC, were CrOWding the sta
ton and the Russian settlement. and
In the settlement cemetery ChaplainS
were conducting funeral ceremonies. \
Few quotations from the correspond
eR's notebook indicate the gTuesOme-
ncs~ of the scene.
Everywhere were pale faces of
CurpSeS sleeping among dead horses.
slaughtered animals and abandoned
quarters Of beef. Bloody bandages
which have fallen off strew the roads
There is bursting ShrdpDel eVeTyWhere
4 wagon train ahead has stopped and
two soldiers are quaTreling about horse
feed. Dead and wounded are passing
on the shoulders of soldiers or i'm mule
carts or in Chinese vehicles. Here one
Russian and one Japanese wounded.
side by side. feed each other. There
lie seven Japanese wounded. to whom
big Russians are attentive. In the soft
sunshine grave diSgers are at work on
al the TOadwayS. Japanese officers
who had been taken prisoners are seen
in the streets Everywhere are eVi-
dcuces that the two great armies have
come closer than ever before"
Relative Strength of Forces.
In the concluding portion of = dis
patch from Tie Pass. the first part of
which was published March IL the
correspondent states that according to
Information the japanese strength i'm
Mukden was eighty battalions less than
mat OF the Russians. The Japanese
were also inferior in guns at many
places. The number Ofimen at the be
ginning Of the battle was 100000. man
ming the greatest field works ever con-
Structed. Not only in duration and
humber Of troops and guns engaged did
the battle exceed all former contests.
but also in expenditure of ammunition
Describing the retreat, the dispatch
pictures debris strewn along the road
marching soldiers increasing their
loads by Spearing bread. vegetables or
FRUIT on their bayOnets. at the same
time discarding heavy boots, Chinese
garments, knapsacks and blankets.
The correspondent then continues:
After the initial excitement at Tava.
Nhere few wagoners plunged without
reason over impossible gulches. the en-
tire body arrived at the steep banks
q the PU river, where heavy artillery
hastened down upon the ice, which
slowly gave way, and tremendous exer-
ZION was required in getting the guns
nut and up the bank.
me passage of a division through
Inc letreating column Ell route TO the
southwest 10 strengthen the right flank
gave confidence of short duration for
japanese cavalry overlook us at San
fatitse- The road and fields are solid
fnass of transports and the dust is so
formidable that il is impossible to see
hundred yards. Japanese gTenades
gave the initial impression of shraDneI
and with rifle fire set the jammed mass
into confusion. DaybTeak disclosed the
plain covered with riderless horses
hOrseless vehicles, fragments of har-
ness and heaps of stores and furniture
Night found the army braveIy bi,--
ouscking on bare plains swept by n
cold. searching wind. with not a single
dugout to shelter them, but preparinp,
q new position"
Under date of Kaiyuan, March u
the correspondent says:
The Russian army east OF the point
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