The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-20
JAPANEsE oUTNUNfBERED.
Had Eighty BattaIions Less Than
Russians at NIukden.


Russians at NIukden.
st. Petersburg. March 20.-A sheaf
of belated Associated Press dispatches
filed at Mukden, Tie Pass and Kai-
yuan reached St. Petersburg last even
ing. having been discovered among
other papers committed to the censer
at the front, where they had lain from
week to twelve days. Writing under
cate OF March 8, the correspondent
confident declaration of satisfaction
With the situation had steadied and
encouraged the army after eight Clavs'
pattIe until the wounded, exceeding in
number those of the battle Liaoyang,
We're croWding the stations and the
Russian settlement, and in the settle
ment cemetery chaplains were con-
Quoting funeral ceremonies A few
note book indicate the gruesomeness
of the scene:
Everywhere were pale faces of
corpses sleeping among dead horses
slaughtered animals and abandoned
quarters of beef Bloody bandages
which had fallen off strew the roads.
There is bursting shrapnel every
where A wagon train ahead had
stopped when two soldiers were quar-
reling about horse feed. Dead ard
wounded are passing on the shoulders
OF soldiers or in mule carts on Chinese
YehlcleS- Here one Russian and one
Japanese wounded side by side feed
each other; there lie seven Japanese
wounded to whom big Russians ara
attentive In the soft sunshine grave
dfggerss are at work on all the road
ways. Japanese officers who had been
taken prisoners are seen in the
streets. Everywhere are. evidences
that the two great armies have come
closer than ever before
In the concluding portion of dis
patch from Tie pass, the first part of
which was published March II, the
n ST ofo hot
to information the japanese siren 9Th |
i'll Mukden was so battalions less than |
that of the Russians. The japanese |
also were inferior in guns at MANY
beginning of the battle was 100000 |
manning the greatest field works ever |
constructed Not only in duration |
and number of troops and guns en- I
gagged did the battle exceed all former |
contests, but also in expenditure of /
Describing the retreat the dispatch
pictures debris streWn along the road
soldiers increasing their
loads by spearing bread, vegeta bles or
fruit on their bayonets, at the same
time discarding heavy boots. Chinese
garments, knapSackS and blankets
The correspondent then continues.
after the initial excitement at
Tava, where few wagoners plunged
without reason over impossible
guicheS, the entire body arrived at
<
heavy artillery hastened down upon
he ice, which slowly gave way, and
tremendous exertion was required in
getting the guns out and up the bank
1.-The passage of a division through |
the retreating column en- route to the
southwest to strengthen the right
flank gave confidence of short dura-
ion, for Japanese cavalry overlook us
1t Santitze. The road and fields are
| solid mass of transports. and the
lust is so formidable that it is i'm
possible to see 100 yards. Japanese
srenades gave the initial impression of
and with rif1ery set the
ammed mass into confusion. Day.
'iderleSs b0rses, horseleSs vehicles
fragments of harness and heaps of
stores and furniture. Night found the
army bravely bivouacking on bare
plains swept by a cold, searching wind
without a single dugout to shelter
hem, but preparing a new position
Under date of Kaiyuan, March 13,
he correspondent says:
1.-THE Russian army east of the
point where the Japanese pierced the
inc at Flu pass was entirely unaffect-
ID by confusion during March 10.
Fully two battalions of mixed troops
escaped north by rail and were found
Ut GunShu pass, 165 miles northWard.
The Japanese in battle employed phe-
lomenal innovations, unknown to
European military practices, showing
hat they are not mere copyists. One
japanese detachment had the Rus
ians beaten near the northern tonbs
md could have entered Mukden two
lays earlier, but retreated. siTnulta-
leOuSIy opposing Russian regiments =