The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1905-03-04
KurOpatkin's Left Wing Separ-
ates From Main Army.
japanese Break Through and
Are Marching on Mukden.
RAILROAD IN DANGER.
Battle at the Front Has Assum-
ed Enormous Proportions.
Russian Losses 10000 and jap
anese 10000.

Berlin, March A dispatch to the
Tageblatt from St. Petersburg says:
General Kuropatkin, in a telegram
which arrived here at o'clack last
evening, said 100000 japanese had
broken through the Russian left wing
and that it was cut off from the re-
mainder of the army"
AT 10 o'clock came another dis
patch from General Kuropatkin
which read:
1.-THE japanese are marching on
Mukden. My position is extremely
dangerous"
In government circles today there is
a conviction that General Kuropatlxin
has been fully beaten; that part of his
army has been dispersed and that the
railroad north OF Mukden will prob
ably be cut.
Losses Are Enormous.
St. Petersburg, March 4-5 p. NJ
The battle raging at the front has as
sumed enormous proportions. AL
ready one of the Associated Press
Russian correspondents places the
Russian losses at 10000 men and those
of the Japanese at 100000 1t is added
that the attempt to draw a. net around
General KurOpatkin has not yet sue
ceeded, but it is said the japanese
from Sinkintin are attempting by
of communication
General Kurolxi. according to the lat
est reports, is stalled by the Russian
left, but the Russian center is Welding
slowly before the japanese onslaughts
On Thursday Field Marshal Oyama
shifted the weight to his left seeking
to enVelop the Russian right eight
miles southwest of Mukden In the
bloody hand to hand fighting which fol-
lowed and continued for hours, the losses
on both sides were enormous. But the
most serious news is the report that the
japanese thanking column at Sfnmintin
about 30 miles west of Mukden has di-
vided, part of it moving straight east to
roll up the Russian right wing while
the other is making forced marches
north with the evident purpose of cut
ting the Russian line of communications
with Tie pass and closing the line of
retreat Should the operation prove
successful the Russian army might be
surrounded.
Russians Fighting Desperately.
Mukden, March al a. n.-The Rus
slams are holding on desperately to their
positions.
Although the fighting has now been in
progress six days, the officers here are
mystified as to whether the actions at
the wings are not big demOnstra tions to !
facilitate the chief object of the jap
anese, that of breaking through the !
Oyama's real intention to turn Mukden; |
on which side is the real movement |
and on which the feint
One of General Kuropatlxin's staff
officers said to the Associated Press:
"Oyama's strategy is to break the
center and then inclose the wings and |
compel demoralized retreat but till |
now the japanese attacks against the
center have been only measureably /
''Sanlinpou, which is the key to our |
position on the right flank was the /
scene of awful carnage last night /
The Japanese concentrated ON it the |
fire of over a hundred guns and then /
with the bayonet. Accord |
ing to the reports coming in they
were repulsed and in a counter at
tack we captured seven machine
guns"
Trains are leaving Mukden cease
essly for the north with wounded men
and stores.