Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-16
LARGE FLEET AFTER ROJESTVENSKY

American Attaches Safe and We'll.
 Report of Little's Death False.
 Grand Duke Nicholaicvitch
 to Succeed kuropatkin.
 LONDON, March 16.-A Newchwang dispatch says that the Japanese occu- pied Tie pass Wednesday at midnight by wide fanking movement against the Russian position. The movement Is expected to develop further impor- tant results, entailing the probable withdrawal of the Russians northward to Harbin.
 The Japanese, with their usual thor oughness, did not hesitate to sacrifice 1000 men in order to gain the position.
 The strength of the attacking force presumably did not exceed division and half The defenders consisted of the whole of the Fourth Siberian army corps belonging to General Linevitch's command.
 There are indications that General Kuropatkin is sending his troops north ward toward Harbin as rapidly as pos sible The censor's office has been moved above Tie pass, provisions are scarce, and there is great activity in the train service.
 A dispatch from Santoupou, north of Tie pass. says that after the evacua- tion of Mukden by the Russians eighty foreigners were killed by Chinese, in cluded in the number being Richard H. Little, correspondent of the Chicago Daily News.
 Mir. Little, however, has cabled di- rect from Yinkow, saying that he had been captured by the Japanese and was being taken to Kobe. The cable gram contained references which dem onstrated that the message was from Mir. Little personally and that he was alive and we'll
 It is now definitely stated that Elm peror Nicholas has approved the deci sion of the council of war to send Grand Duke Nicholas Nicholaievitch to replace General Kuropatkin as the best means of putting stop to the in trigues and jealousies among the gen. erals of the army both at St. Peters burg and at the front. General Sou khomlinoff will be chief of staff.
 The fact that Kuropatkin was able to evacuate Mukden with 5O,QO0 men wounded and extricate his army from the meshes of the net set by Field Marshal Oyama, even with heavy cost in men and munitions. is looked upon as military feat of the first order.
 A steamer arriving at Singapore re- ports having passed a-'squadron of twenty-two Japanese warships about twenty miles east of the entrance to the strait of Malacca. Two Japanese cruisers and two auxiliary cruisers previously arrived at Singapore. Pre- sumably these vessels are on their way westward in search of the Russian sec ond Pacific squadron, last reported in Madagascar waters.
 Dispatches from General Kuropatkin to the czar report that the Japanese have attacked the central Russian po- sitions on the Fan river, which is ten miles south of Tie pass, and were re- pulsed, leaving 900 dead on the field.
 The magnificent brigade of Cau- casian Cossacks who bore the brunt of the fighting at Mnkden were prac- tically annihilated. Only two of the officers survive. All belonged to the St. Petersburg nobility. and hence many of the highest families in Russia are in mourning.
 Generals Bilderling. Linevitch and Kaulbars have reached Tieling with q large number of troops in good order.
 A Harbin report says that General Kuropatkin has only 100000 troops organized and able to take the field. He does not believe 1t will be possible to remain at Tieling and prefers to in- trench himself at Harbin. where he could keep in touch with vladivostok.
 Captain w. Y. Judson and Colonel V. Havard. United States army at- taches to the Russian forces in Man churia. who were captured by the Jap anese at Mukden. have reported that they were captured. but are safe and well within the Japanese lines. The wheree bouts of Major M. NJ. Macombe of the artillery corps. the third of the military attaches of the United States army with Kuropatkin. is not known. It is presumed that he was not in Muk- den at the time of the capture of the city.
 A dispatch from General Oku's head quarters says that up to the present time 10000 prisoners and fifty guns have been taken.
 Arrangements were concluded at final conference between representa- lives of tbe Russian government and of French banking houses by which a Russian losn of Sl2O.OC00OO will he ne gotiated at Paris.
 X Berlin report says that the man who was killed in the hotel Bristol ct St. Petersburg by the explosion of his own bomb was a Russian by the name of Naumann and that he was member of the t.rroris; organization.
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