Weekly Arizona journal-miner., 1905-03-22
TeIegraphiC Briefs


 March 18th ordered to evacuate their
 positions and during the night retired
 in good order, covering their rear.
 There has been fighting throughout
 the day. Before the withdrawal of the
 Russian forces the military settlement
 and such of the stores of fuel and for
 age as could not be removed were set
 on fire and destroyed. The Fighting
 on March l4th and 18th fell to the
 second Siberian corps.
 General Kuropatkin and remnants
 of his army, which were defeated by
 the Japanese on the Shakhe and Hun
 rivers, and again around Mukden and
 Tie Pass are TOW in the mountains a
 few miles north of the southern en-
 trance of the Pass trying to shake off
 their pursuers. who apparently are not
 going to repeat the mistake of Liao
 Yang and allow the Russian army to
 escape. Kuropatkin has been rein
 forced by the garrisons at Tie Ling
 and other northern towns and few
 new troops who were on the way from
 Russia when the battle of Mukden be- gan, but even with these there is little
 hope for him.
 He has some thirty or forty miles of
 hilly country, which might enable
 him to hold of the enemy for time
 but once out of the hills he has before
 him nearly 300 miles of fiat open country with innumerable rivers and streams to cross.
 Lairin on the east of the railway and Harbin, the most northerly point of the railway where 1t branches off to Vladivostock eastward and to Siberia westward are the centers of this won- derfully rich country resembling in many respects the northwest territory of Canada. From Tie Pass to Kaiyana twenty miles, the railroad runs over hills, known as ''the divide" and then strikes into the valley, on either side of which rise high hills, and emerges into the plain just north east of the important Chinese city Finghusien. From there to Harbin hardly hill can be seen from the railway train, the line running almost straight.
 ST. PETERSBURG, March IT, With the evacuation of Tie Pass on Wednesday night the Russian army abandoned the last stronghold in l southern Manchuria and definitely | turned over that section to the Japan i ese for the campaign of 1905, at least. No other strategy is possible for Kuro patkin in view of his scanty supplies and ammunition, and his stores shat tered and the condition of his armies and the wide enveloping movements which the Japanese have continued almost without stop since the Russian defeat at Mukden.
 Nothing has been heard of the part that Gen. Kawamuras army is taking in these operations but Generals Nogi and Oku are operating in the low hills of the Tie Pass gorge where sufficient turn has shattered the Russian army put of the Qualifications which had been prepared with view of being held by the army after it was with lrswn from Mukden.
 The Japanese are evidently doing heir utmost to accomplish the envel, oping of the Russian army which it Ill but succeeded in doing at Muk- len, but Kuropatkin having the rail 'oad for retreat will probably be able .o keep ahead of his pursuers.
 Military men here have but the bar ,st idea where the next stand will be , made. The evacuation of Tie Pass in- ,olves the loss of the coal mines of hat vicinity, which with the loss of he Fusan and Venta mines Is a severe !: blow. The railway shops and more upplies at Tie Pass were sacrificed. {
 Further mobilization has been de ermined upon and the preparatory , Iders are already being issued but [ he extent of the mobilization is un- f ,nown. ,
 Gen. Oku's Headquarters, Saturday, ( larch 1Ith, via Yinkow, March 16.- ( rom information received from Rus ian prisoners and residents of Muk- J en it Is estimated that Kuropatkin's t orces with the beginning of the bat a le of Mukden consisted of over 4S0, O0 men. His losses in killed and [ before March 10th is estimat- V d at 10000. Nearly all his wounded c ere removed north before the railway [ 'as cut. Reports as to the number of V risoners taken are yet incomplete r ut it is thought they will reach into d be thousands. The Japanese saved ast quantities of supplies from the a ames set by Russians. The work of Q fearing the battlefield west of the e ailway began in earnest today. The T odies of Russians are being buried |, n'l the Japanese dead cremated. Full e 7 2000 bodies are still scattered about f,