Waterbury evening Democrat., 1905-03-06
HIS ARMY CUT IN TWO
Kuropatkin Defeated on Hun
 With Great Slaughter.
SEvENTYTHOUSAND HORS DE COMBAT
Japanese Corps, Numbering 100000 Men, Broke Through Russian Left Wing and Are March.
 ing on Mukdeu

Men, Broke Through Russian
 Left Wing and Are March,
 ing on Mukden.
 LONDON, March GA dispatch from General Kuroki's headquarters in the field says that the Japanese have gain ed a signal victory beyond the Hun river, defeating in detail two divisions of the Russian Sixteenth corps, recent ly arrived from Europe, with great slaughter. and capturing huge quanti. ties of ammunition.
 It is estimated that the total loss is 10000 men.
 According to reports at St. Peters burg, Field Marshal Oyama has cut General Kuropatkin's army in two, and the situation for General Kuropat. kin is perilous.
 Late reports say that the Russians have been driven to their main posi- tiOns in the neighborhood of Mukden, and the Japanese Hanks are bending in east and west of the city. The heaviest engagements of the war, according to dispatch from Tokyo, are about to be fought.
 General Oku's troops defeated large Russian force near Changtu and advanced to point about five miles southwest of Mukden. The Rus sian center holds firm. General Ku- roki continues attacks south and south east of Fuchau. Part of General Nogi's troops swung eastward and are fierce ly assaulting the Russian lines west and northwest of Mukden.
 In the fighting at Sanlinpou the Rus sians were facing only division and a half of the four Japanese divisions in the Liao river valley and with the ut most difficulty repulsed these.
 The general staff decline to say whether General Kuropatkin is stand ing his ground or if he is already retir ing. An important council of war is being held.
 A special from St Petersburg says that General Kuropatkin has reported that 260,O0O Japanese have broken through the Russian left wing and that it was cut off from the remainder of the army, that the Japanese are march ing on Mukden and that his position Is extremely dangerous.
 In government circles there is con- viction that General Kuropatkin has been fully beaten. that part of his army has been dispersed and that the rail road north of Mukden will probably be cut.
 Dispatches from General Oku's head quarters say that inc Japanese have occupied three more villages in the Russian second line of defenses, carry ing the captured lines twelve miles east of Changtu. The Russians are falling back on their heavy defenses south of Mnkden.
 A Fuchau report says that the Japa- nese have occupied the second line of the Russian right defenses. Their line was taken early in the morning. The Japanese also hold positions on the west bank of the Hun river, four miles north of Ghangtan, thus con- pletely turning the Russian right flank. The Japanese fire badly demoralized the Russians, who retreated in disor- der. The Russians are still retiring, and Oku's army is advancing rapidly in pursuit.
 , A Mukden report says that the rum. ble of carts in the streets of Mukden is drowned by the roar of battle, which is raging northwest, west and southwest of the city. few miles away, between General Nogi.s Port Arthur veterans and the hastily assem. bled army interposed by General Ku- ropatkin to defend the city and rail. roads. The Japanese attack came like lightning out of clear sky.
 The carnage at the center and on both Hanks has been enormous. The Japanese at many places simply threw away their lives, beating against the Russians powerful. Notifications in at tacks which, in the center, apparently were intended chiefly as a demonstra- ton to cover the driving home of Gen. eral Nogi's blow.
 X feature of all accounts of the fighting reaching St. Petersburg is the emph N's laid on the awful carnage. There is reference after reference to dead piled high on the ground. over which an attack was delivered. strew- ing breastworks. almost hiding abatis from sight, and even being used by the Japanese to construct nasty in trenchments. The Russian losses on both Hanks are conceded to he enor.