The daily morning journal and courier. [volume] (New Haven, Conn.) 1894-1907, 1905-03-20


side by side. feed each other; there lie
seven little Japanese wounded, to
whom big Russians are kindly atten-
tive. In the soft sunshine, grave dig
gers are at work on all the roadways.
japanese officers who had been taken
prisoners are seen in the streets of
the settlement. Everywhere are evil
denees that the two great armies have
come closer to handgrips than ever be-
fore"
I In the concluding portion of dis
patch from Tie Pass, the first part of
which was published March II, the COR
respondent states that according to in
formation the Japanese strength in the
battle of 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 beginning of the battle was 100000
manning the greatest field works ever
constructed. Not only in duration and
the number of troops and guns engaged
did the battle exceed all former con-
tests, but also in expenditure Of ammu
milton. the accumulated stores of which
We're SO enormous that after a contin-
uous 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, increasing
their loads by spearing bread, veget-
abIes or fruit on their bayonets, at the
same time discarding heavy boots,
! Chinese garments, knapsacks and
blankets. After the initial excitement
| at Tava, where few wagoners plung-
| ed without reason over irnpassibile
! gulches, the entire body arrived at the
steep banks of the Pu river. where
heavy artillery FASTENED down upon the
water-coyered ice, which slowly gave
way, and tremendous exertion was re-
quired in getting the guns out and up
| the further bank, the men in the little
gorge getting into white heat of ex-
4 element The passage Of a division
through the retreating column en- route
| to the southwest to strengthen the
right flank gave condolences of short
\ duration, for Japanese cavalry break
| ing through above Tie pass, overlook us
at Santaitse The roads and fields are
a solid mass Of transports, and the
| dust is so formidable that 1t is inn
! possible to see a hundred yards. Jap
/ anese grenades gave the initial impress
sion of shrapnel, and with rife fire, set
4 the damned mass into confusion. Day
break disclosed the plain covered with
! riderless horses, horses. vehicles, frag-
/ ments of harness, heaps of stores and
4 furniture. Night found the army brave
" bivouaclsing on bare palms swept by
a cold searching wind with not a soli-
tary dugout to shelter them, but pre-
pairing a new position.
Under date of Kaiyuan, March 1S
the correspondent says:
THE Russian army east of the point
where the Japanese pierced the line at
I Flu pass was entirely unaffected by
confusion during March 10. Fully two
battalions of mixed troops escaped
north by rail, and were found at Cum
shu pass, f65 miles northward.
i "The Japanese In battle employed
phenomenal tactics, innovations I'M
| known to European military practice,
showing that they are not mere copy
lists, One Japanese detachment had the
Russians beaten near the northern
tombs, and could have entered Mukden
two days earlier. but reiterated, stimuli
| taneously opposing Russian regiments
when the army arrived at Tie pass
| everything was inadequate to the
wants OF the occasion. The city was
/ filed with troops, crowding every avail
able space and all superf1uous rolling
| stock, and even now there is nothing
! better to accommodate the army. NJ.