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About The Nebraska advertiser. (Nemaha City, Neb.) 18??-1909 | View Entire Issue (March 24, 1905)
DEAD S1REW THE FIELD NO TIME TO RESTi EVENTS COMING SEE END OF WAR NOT OUT OF WOODS SWS8IA1I LOSSES IM BATTLK BOH man in thousands. ThoBinnd KbiiIiii Taka Prisoner, Along "With Innnm HrbI Trophies Stnbaara rarault o Ob. Marshal Oyama, BAJtLY JBATTLK AT Til PASfl B- SAKDBD I'ltOIlABLK. POSITION NOT TOO STRONG TOKIO. Fiold MfortilDK Bays: 'Prisoners, spoils and the enemy's estimated casualltles aealnst our forces i the Shakbe direction follow, eat the prisoners, suns and spoils ate Increasing momentarily. The aytsonera number ovorforty thous and, including General Naobraoss. .The killed andwounded are estl n'atcd at 00,000. The enemy's dead lafb oa the field number 20,600. The polls Inoludo two flags, about sixty suns. 80.000 rifles. 160 ammunition waeons. 1.000 carts. 200,000 sbolls, K. 000.000 rounds of small arms am munition, 25,000 bushois coreal, 27,600 bushels of fodder, forty five miles or Mght railway outllt, 2,000 horses, twenty three car lots ot maps, 1,000 oart loads of alotbing and accoutre- soents, 1,000,000 rations of bread, 70, SOO tons of fuel and 60 tons of hay, besides tools, tents, bullocks, telo iraph, wlro and poles, timber, beds, stoves and numerous other property. "No roport from the Singking direction has been received." Tho battle has been offlolally named tbo battle of Mukden. A dispatch from Japanese military headquartors announces the oatlmate mi. the number ot prisoners captured ap to and including Friday at 20,000. Hince tbat time too number bus been ruiBkly increasing and the total will 7iceed 30,000. The dispatch con tinues: "Reports from the chiefs of the medical corps of all the armies have been received from February 26 to March 12. Oar total casualltles at Itbat time wore 41,222." Field Marshal Oyama, reporting vmder ddte of Saturday night, says: "All our forces advanced to the iioVir. nf t-.hn Hun river and vlaorouilv pursuod the enemy in all directions. !We reached a lino thirteen miles) north of the Hun river the afternoon1 f March 10. On March 11 we con tinued a vigorous pursuit. Our force advanced north from tbo vicinity of the Fa rivet, and immediately after! lis departure engagd with a large eolumn of the enemy retreating orth. After a hand-to-band battle wa surrounded and captured the column. In tbo vicinity of Mukden a remnant of the enemy continues a hopeless resistance or is surrendering. Clearing operations are progressing. The enemy's dead are massed every where and we havo beon unable to (Inter them as yet. At this minute Investigation of the losses Inflicted at several plaoes has not been fin Ished. but the enemy's killed, wounded, prisoners and spoils are enormous. The spoils of clothing and provisions are in great plles,re sembllng bills. Wo' nave beenunablo to Investigate yet." Tho .TnnnnnsA rm ran It of tho Rus sian armies continues, and a resump tion of heavy righting in the vicnity of. Tie Pass is anticipated. The Pass, which Is naturally strong, has been extensively fortified, and it is thought tbe.Russlans will rally there in an endears to check the Japan ese. The rapldiy advancing Japanese already are lu both touch at Tie Pass. Tho Russians evidently are oonfused and exhausted and possibly are short of food and ammunition, and it is believed here that they will be unable- to resist a strong attaok. Succeeding field reports Incroaao the extent of the Russian disaster. It will take five months toresupply and reorganize the Russian armies. Reports of casulaties given by captives reach 40 per cent. The artillery losses woro especially heavy. The captured guns have not yet been counted, but tbo numerous captured stores and munitions are valued at millions of dollars. This loss mater ially adds to the crippling of the Russian armies. Tho Japaneso people are receiving details ot tbo victory with calmness. Tokio and othor cities are exceedingly quiet and tho recent admonition to. tho people to refrain from spending money in celebrations and devote ithoir earnings to war charities Is being universally obeyed. Tbo Japanese press editorials, In J I ...... n n I ... . 1-. wnrfkl,v fV 4- mcaco on victory, doclaro Japan will continue tho vigorous prosecution ot the war and has no suiurestlon to make to Russia, directly or In directly. Ml TIMR HJCIN. rsMUe Of 8arsinr X.Ua VadUr 0aiMnitUn- Peace Tk All rTT4llt)g- KwbjMt St.Pteranr RANK AMD JTUU XM JTOS91A MX BMC.T hopm rem nr. alQMiriCAMT BWPATOU U ISOH BXAT Of TTAJR flUKDEN'S FALL FINAL jaitambmb iiANaxva k t TIWE PUT AT TWO WEEKS at ml Blatar Vakaowa Br at St. rmtrtn'knrg, a Saarlj . HgtlaMaj Iimi tat BsactaMaa. vmm iTttK er rnovMiems rwn- V!atMS Kkowr Stotaff I fluft Mmlui anil Jimmm Baaarta at TwtI Staaa at m Wmr, a 8T. PETERSBURG. Russia's "grand army," with the exception of the thousands killed or taken priso ners on tho Dlains and mountains around Mukden, Is gathering slowlv behind the fortifications of Tie Pass, which were built aa a rof uge boforo the battle of Llao Yang, and Is feverishly engaged In tbo work of reorganising and further strengthening Its linos. According to tho general Btaff ihe main boay niraadv has com Dieted Its retreat and tho rear guard southward is falling back slowly, keeping in tuuoh with the pursuing columns of Japanese. In the complete absence of further Information it is difficult to say whether the pursuit is slook- onod or is being conducted by only a portion of the Japanese, and military officials hero hope that, as after tbo battlo of Llao Yang, Field Marshal has paused to give his weary troops a momentary breathing spell, whl'e extending his railroad and otner lines of supplyy to his new position and preparing for the next blow. To tho Russian army every minute is now valuable, and tha footsore and disheartened detachments have been given scarcely an hour's rest before being set to work with spade and pick Improving the defenses of Tie pass. It may toe, However, mat even nnw fchav are bain? turned out ot these position. Itamors are current thai a wlda eastward flanking move ment, which was begun before the battle, Is still moving and on the other side it is feared that columns are moving north of Fakoaman ti take a position in the Russian rear. Geperal Kuropatkln still holds command. An officer of the general staff said that he probably will not retlra until some semblance of order1 has bton restored. Tde question of his successor is still undetermined. There are indications that the food. Bupply at Tie pass is none too large, Immense quantities having been burned at Mukden and Russian cor respondents telegrapn that they have had nothing to oat for two days. Tho troops, however probably are faring better. The commissariat arrangement worked admirably dur ing the battle and even at the height or the fight the soldiers received warm food. Tolegrams trom the Russian side, though Inadequate as a basis for any detailed estimate of the Russian losses, show tbat they havs been ex tremely heavy, enough to cripple offensivo I operations for many months. General Kuropatkln admits tbat 50,000 wounded were carried off, but says nothing aB to how many killed, wounded and prisoners wer left behind, and from his picture of a little handful of two officers and 150 men of the imperial rifles march ing off, led by their gallant colonel, ollnglng to their standard, can bo derived somo Idea of the losses sus tained br tho regiments that bore tho brunt of the righting. Tho ex ploit of tho ix hundred at Balakava pales besides this. JOvon the losses in the "bloody angle" of the Wild erness and in the battle of Antletam are scarcely comparable. Another traglo picture of the re treat Is pictured in connection with the retirement of General Rennen- kampH'6 detachment from Ouenpusa, with barely one-third ot its original strength tho brave soldiers break ing down and sobbing and kissing tbo blood stained ground which they had been ordered to relinquish. The losses ot officers is said to have1 been especially heavy and many of the higher and mare capable officers were killed. Tho Associated press has received from a correspondent with General Ronnonkampff's headquarters de scriptions to tho Tslnkhetohon oper ations, tho difficult retreat on Oubenepus and tho stubborn defonso of tho positions there by this hardly vanguard or cue ursc army. ST. PETERSBURG. General Kuropatkln has senl the following dlspatoh to Emperor Nicholas. "Last night began tho retreat of all our armies. During tho night there was no lighting but a heavy cannon ado." ST. PETERSBD RG. "Last ulght all our armies commencod to re treat." Tho greatest defeat in the history of tbo Russian-Japanese was mado known in St. Potorbsurp. bnt only In the paltry eight words from General Kuropatkln to Emporor Nicholas which were flung about the streets In nowapapor extras and passed from mouth to mouth. Two thoughts formed Instantly In tbo minds of evoryone, and two words wore on every Hp surrender peace the form 3r dreaded, the latter hoped for. General Kuropatkln Is no maker of phrases; Ills words never are quoted like tho famous "all is lost save honor," but his laconic messages hide more than probably anv othor two sentences in the liter ature of war. St. Petersburg knows nothlnp of tho extent of tho dlsater, not even the lines of Kuropatkln's retreat; whether the routo to Tie Pasb is still open, whether he is endeavorirg to cut his way through to safety or whether, as many of the pesslmlstlo believe, he has taken to the moan tains. If It be the latter he will Inevitably begemmed In and starved into surrender, as Marshal Baxalna was nt Meti. The dlspatoh has been studied as closely in was ever the most abstruse text of scripture over which dogmat Inns have worried, and from the word "all our armies" the optimistic draw the deduction tbat the bulk of the Russian forces got away clear, the commander-in--hlef sacrificing, however, the devoted roar guard, who duns themselves as sacrificed also, it Is conceded oc either band, the greater part of his heavy artillery and specially the selge gunc and normous quantities of supplies and mnnlMnnn. Of the nresent situation of the army whether it is utterly routed or merely beaten, of the proportion of Russians left In Japanese hand, or o" the prospect of the escape of the remainder. St. Petersburg at this moment knows leas than the smallest hamlet In America. Slnca the Associated press Mukden dispatch was filed at 5 o'clock Friday mornlug no dispatch save the brief official an nouncement of the retreat has come from the Russian army, General Kuropatkin's preceedlng dispatch, giving the last details as to the positions of the army having been written at 9 o'clook Thursday even Inc. The members of the general staff, when asked for Information, said: "Wo know nothing. We hope ho will bring the army off safely, bat wo do not know how bo will do it. We onlv know be has commenced to retreat, that Is all." Everyone now Is dlscusdlng peace, which manv of the stauncneso aa vocates of the war bureaucrats and offlclers. now declare to bo Inveti able. It openly Is bruited tnat Rojestvonsky's fleet has been recal'cd arid is now on the way nomewara. Outwardlv St. Petersburg takes tho defeat unconcernedly. A stranger in tbo streets would never know that armies defending the honor and prestige of Russia had Just sustained a crushing reverse Tnere wero no crowds, no demonstrations, no changes from tho ordinary Btreet life. Newsboys were hawking extras nn tho streets mere dodgers with three lines of General Knropatkin'a dispatch surrounded by wide margins of blank oarer but there was notn- Inc to indicato tbat tho extra wero more Important than those in wolch for a year General Kuropaikin'a dis patches havo been lssuca. JA7AKM3I TJRY1MA KUS8IAN KKTMHAX en oral RenaeahamsK SaM Clnaa QaarUta-OPaafftMa 'Vaaaa Mava la Varata- JHaak t Kaaataa Vlcot. ST. FJBTttRSBURG. -la a long dlBpatcb tiomM General Kuropatkln, the cummandeMn-chtof of the army In Manohuila gives details of various utacKB by tho Japanese the last few days, and the Associated press cor respondent at Mukden Indicates a continuation ot tho artlllory duel, but neither roport throws any light unon tho rumored Intention of Gon- eral Kuropatkln to withdraw north ward, which has been the gossip of St. Petersburg for tho last two days. A private dlspatoh received con oludes with this signlcflant sentence: Tho Siberian railroad, which Is bolnir worked to its full capacity by purely military trafic, is about to have a further burden Imposed upon It. namely, that of feeding the iesl dent non-combatant population. The BtockB of" pro visions la Irkutsk and other towns In Siberia were not as large aa usual at tbe beginning of Ihe winter, and are now running low. The government has bean In formed tbat provision must be im ported by railroad or tbat tbe town will be faoe to face with famine within a fortnight. This will acuessltate some delay In tbe for warding of military supplies, which are sorely needed at the present moment. According to semi-official note the manager of tbe Chinese western rail way denies tbat the bridge between Tie pass and Kaiyuan baa been dfc stroyed. The manager declares that traffic is not interrupted. General titoesael, wbo was given an audience of tha emperor, was re selved by his majesty with a cool re ceotlon which he was given by sav eral of the newspapers and military factions. General Stoessel is being feted by society. A large dinner was given In his honor after his return from Tsarskoe Selo. No steps havo been taken yat to wards an Investigation of tbe sur render of Port Arthur, nut the whole matter will soon be placed in the hands of a commission of in quiry in order to clear up the clr cumstances In dispute. The position of General Kuropat kin's army is regarded as being more of less critical. Tho real turning movement which General Kuroki Is oncratins in the mountains forty a - ww miles eastward of Mukden scorns to be making prorgess, and at. the same time Field Marshal Oyama is also rolllnu back tho Russian left while pounding away at tho Russian center with heavy high power guns. Pout lloff and Novord bills have been sub jeeted to a continuous three days' bombardment, followed by an in fantry attack, tbo main Russian lines being forced to retlro two miles to their shelter trenches. Some of the Rnssiun newspaper correspond ents anticipate an attempt to take tho hills by storm. General Kuropatkln is making des peratye efforts to chock Kuroki, one or wnuse columns nas succeeuea in worklnu around tho extreme Russian loft, and reinforcements havo been dispatched in a northeasterly dlrec tion. General RennenkamptI is slowly retiring fighting, taking ad- vuntana of the broken hilly country and contesting every inob of grouud. While tbe Japanese are evidently making progress there is nothing yet to indicate that mold jyiarsnai Oyama will succeed in lnfictlng a de cisive blow even if he forces Kuro patkln to abandon Mukden. Accord ing to tho reports current which are not. however, confirmed by tho war office, tho withdrawal of stores aud supplies from Muken is already well under way. Tbe war office insists that no matter whet tho result ot tho remainder of the action tho Jap aneso havo again beon too slow and that Kuropatkln has made suro of bis line of retreat. General Xayoyatkln la Wia ground before the asaslea af Jfcftu und he abandoned posltioaa aawtsi and southwest af Makdea, amwlM such of his supplies as ha ceaJel aat carry with him. Tbe JSJiaatSj artillery Isltfcundorlnt- Ihe very Mtaa' of Mukden, which aosltton the slans still hold, but which they i admittedly prepared ta evacnat, changing their base to Tie aafJ which Is forty miles north af Jfeav den. So far as the retreat bsAjpsa-. greased It has been orderly. WlUs tho Japaneso may have In store Jatj tbo dofeated army on Its retlroNesa. northward romalns to ho disclosed.) There aro reports that General Aftavi nenicampn:, cue luroniunw wTawjri crcnoral of tho Russian army In Maa-I churla, has beon cnt off on the eafiti from tho main forco and Japaateaa troona In considerable numbers aiei said to bo already In tho vleinlty ot Tlo Pass Tho rotircment unaaaa! tinnithvaoafc the Russians dear In the matter of supplies and hoavy gem'j Neither commanders nor correa, pondents have yet ventured to eetK mate the number killed or womndeij in Ihe eleven days of fighting. 3fea, Russian casualties In the fab tec Tuesday on the left flank are said ! have been fully 7,000. MUKDEN. The RasslaDe are re tiring from the lines of the Shake r 1 ver. Japanese are north of Makdem and advanolng against the valbeaeH at Dnguntun. A fight is raging tic miles west of tbe railroad aneyese- lectllas reach the railroad. A large number of Japaneae aa, Chinese spies have been caatsurai, during the last three daya wltfcM tat Russian lines. Tho former we especially bold. A Japanese oafee In fall uniform was oaptarea Inalia the position of tUe-Ruaafaa bat teries. . i For several daya the Jaaajaeae stave, bocn throwing prcolamations Inalia the Buaslaaa lines and eircsuawae; them In Mukden warn lag Ik la habitants of tbe approaching DOsa bardment of Mukden and predicting . a m mi m a aak' tne capture or tne city ny naren xst. PARIS.-A dlspatoh to the Temp from Tananarlvo, tapltal of the, Island of Madagascar, says the entft Russian fleot has left the waters'! Madagascar on its return Id JltmlU, French Somallland. t HAMBURG. Shipping eJroleaare. not swrnrised at the retufe of Um Russian fleet to the Red Sea, sMiee recent events here Indicate tbat the Russian government Is andeelded with roforenoe to further atteaipts to send tbe fleet to eastern Astasia waters. The ohartered steamer 8. Nlnlan, which was enroate se Data via, with coal for the secoa Faolflo sauadion. returned here the other day upon orders from tbe Baa, slan government. The recent oa addle about the buying of Hambarg- Amerioan Steamship company vessels further emphazises Ruaaia's !neeol tion. LONDON. No confirmation baa reached London of the report tbat Vice Admiral Kolestvensky'e squadron is returning from Madagas car to Jlbutll, nor aro thero any dis patches printed In 'the morning newspapers throwing further light on tho position of affairs in Man churla. Should tho report concern ing YIco Admiral Rojestvonsky .bi confirmed It will be regarded here as a Btrong indication of Russia's desire to arrange terms of poaot with Japan. The Times St. Petersburg corres pondent says tbat Genoral Kuropat- It In received considerable roinioroe ments a few days ago und that It k hoped these fresh troops will stave off a crushing defeat and enabio his retreating army to remove stores and nans. a . . tcjkiu. ine great oatcio in Muncnuria raged along tho entire enormous front. The Japanese wore generally victorious and tlioy drove the Russians from a series of import ant positions. By nightfall It seemed Imperative that General Kuropatkln would havo to withdraw hlB shattered legions to a complete disaster. Indeed it appeared Impos sible for him to effect a retreat with out hoavy losses of prisonors, guna and stores, ,