Cameron County press. [volume] (Emporium, Cameron County, Pa.) 1866-1922, 1905-03-16
The Greatest Defeat in the History
of the War Is Announced
by Gen. Kuropatkin
CAPTURED MANY PRISONERS
Enormous Quantities of Supplies and
Guns Fell Into the Hands of the
Victorious Japanese When
They Entered Muk~

The fate of the Russian army of up
wards of a quarter of a million men
and 1000 pieces of artillery, with
which it was expected Gen. Kuropat-
kin and his lieutenants could prevent
the advance of the Japanese beyond
the Shakhe and Hun river positions,
still is in the balance. They have been
driven from those positions and now
are rushing nOrthward towards Tie
Pass, around which are high hills
which were prepared for defense after
the battle of Liao Yang in September,
there being no hope at that time that
the Japanese would allow the defeat
ed army to rest south of Tie Pass.
That the Russians have lost many
guns and large quantities of ammuni-
tion and supplies is certain, for with
but single track railway to the north
it would be impossible to remove the
large stores which had been gathered
together at Mukden. These 1t seems
certain have been destroyed. The
Japanese have not yet reported the
capture of guns, which they generally
do almost Immediately, but it seems
hardly likely that Kuropatkin could
On the first of January, according to
correspondents who have just return
ed from Mukden, the Russians had in
position along the Shakhe and Hun
rivers 1,5C0 guns, including a number
of six and eight-inch guns in cement
foundations straddling the railway
just north of Shakhe station. In ad-
dition, many guns arrived in Mukden
during January and February, so that
the Russian artillery when the big
battle started must have numbered
nearly 1000 pieces. 1t is likely that
Kuropatkin has sacrificed some of
these and is bending all his energies
to eXtricate his army. That his task is
a difficult one, all the dispatches indi-
cate, but Russian sympathizers point
to his retreat from Liao Yang, where
conditions were opposed to him. The
retreat from Lao Yang was accom-
plished during a terrific rain storm
over roads hub deep in mud, while at
the present time the Manchurian
roads are frozen hard as stone and
have been worn as smooth as asphalt
by the continual passage of big wide
tired commissariat wagons.
Even should Kuropatkin extricate
his army, it is believed in European
capitals that peace soon will follow
this last Japanese victory. The call
ing to St Petersburg of NJ. Iswolsky,
Russian minister to Denmark, who
formerly was in Toxic, is most sig
nificant No time will be lost in start
ing the negotiations as soon as Russia
intimates her wish to close the war.
Yinkow, March 11.-Mukden fell at
10 o'clock Friday morning. The Rus
slams are panic-stricken. Thousands
of prisoners and enormous quantities
of stores and guns have been cap
tured
The casualties on both sides have
been enormous. The Russian Six
teenth army corps was practically an
initiated at Tatchekiao. Eight thou
sand Russians fell at Leukuanpao
st. Petersburg, March 1l.-'Last
night all or armies commenced to re-
treat"
The greatest defeat in the history
of the Russian-Japanese war was
made known in st. Petersburg last
night but only in the paltry eight
words from Gen. Kuropatkin to En-
peror Nicholas, which were flung
about the streets in newspaper extras
and passed from mouth to mouth