The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1905-03-13
JAPANESE CAPTURED
FORTY THOUSAND MEN
Kuropatkin Believed to Have Lost Nearly Half
His Army
Oyama Report at Hand But the Time Was Too Short to Give
An Accurate Estimate of the Fruits
of Victory.

EAA EIILE General Kuropatkin has APP
Wv parently succeeded in saving
more of his artillery than seemed
possible. his losses in men, ammunition
and cOmmisSaTiat supplies in the battle
of Mukden are far greater than earlier
reports indicated, and even that pOr-
ton of his army which he succeeded
I'm eXtricating from the positions around
Mukden is still in serious danger The
japanese generals. realizing that with
"a little more speed they could have in
1liCted a crushing defeat on the Rus
sian army after the battle Of Lao
Yang. determined not to allow again an
opportunity to pass and are following
after the defeated and SOrely-tried Rus
sian forces While a small portion OF
Turopatkin's army has reached Tie
pass. the greater part of those who eS-
caued from the battle of Mukden are
still struggling onward, being at last
accounts between twelve and sixteen
miles from their goal. with the Japan
csc. flushed with victory and reinforced
by fresh men, harasSing them from all
sides.
Must Retreat Further.
Even should the remnant of the army
reach Tie pass, it is hardly possible for
il to make d stand there against the
overwhelming force opposing II, ana
especially as the Russians must be
men guns and ammunition
1t is more likely that KurOpatkin Will
fall right back to Hardin with what
he can save, and wait there for the re-
Endorsements that st. Petersburg has
already promised him. y possible OBJ
stacle to the plan is General Kawamu-
1a's army. which has not yet been 10
Gated. and which may also be heading
for the northern capital
Russian Losses.
General Kuropatkin admits that 1,190
officers and 46. 931 men are not respond
ing to roIIcaIls. This is rather vague.
IT may or may not include the thou
sands of wounded who have been sent
north. and again ii may not include the
losses suffered by the Third army, with
which the COmmander-in-chief was not
In communication for some time The
figures given by the Japanese war Office
appear more reasonable, namely, 10000
prisoners. $500 dead left on the field
and 90. OCO killed or wounded, the latter
figure of course. including the dead
found by the Japanese. The Russian
losses therefore, total more than 1OO,-
600 men. or more than One-third of the
whole army. The fact that the Japan
csc report the capture OF only sixty
guns indicates that kurODatkdn at the
last moment succeeded in sending a
considerable portion of his artillery
northward on the railway. The Japan
csc losses I'D to this morning were re-
7,Orted as Il. 222. not including the army
which pushed north between MUkden
and Fushun.
War to Go on.
Official Russia is determined to carry
on the war and St. Petersburg reports
that orders have been issued Tor the
mobilization of more troops This may
7,rove a difficult task with the temper
Of the Russian people in its present con-
dition. There is still hope in St. Peters
burg that Russia can exhaust Japan
financially, and for months there has
been talk of the mobilization Oh an
army ON the Siberian border which
would compel Japan to keep her vast
army in Manchuria.