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HomeMy WebLinkAboutThe Herald, 1904-10-28, Page 6T SING 6I? Great Gallantry of the Russians Who Penetrate Japanese Centre, Force the Enemy to Retire With Heavy Loss and Capture Guns and Provisions. Kouropatkin's BoastedAdvance is Now a Retreat, With Port Arthur Still Unrelieved, M kden cable: The Russian forces ed hospitals were isrholly inadequate for w 11 oc'loc.k,- this forenoon penetrated sub. furious fighting. Thousands • of the Japanese centre, unci it is reported wounded lay on the field for hours with- outoaptured 11 or 13 guns and 150 Tis- attention, or crawled in pititful P agony, seeking help and shelter. loners east of the railway. Thunder storms, increased the agonids ,At another point during the day the of the wounded, many of whom cried to Siberian regiments tool: 24 guns. passers-by to be put out of their misery, The Russian operations to -day have or to be taken out of the rain. Rivulets from the hillsides caused by the down - been quite successful. The Japanese, pour .were crimsoned with blood. Some after a terrific and stubborn resistance, of the heaviest Russian losses were were compeilled to retire along their among the Jewish, Finnish and Polish whole line, losing heavily. All the regiments. Bodies lay sometimes six deep after the hand-to-hand struggles. trenches carried by •the Russians were filled with the Japanese dead. In one x7,000 RUSSIAN DEA73, not very large trench there were count- _ -ed 600 corps -es of Japanese. In •site pf Tokio Silent Respecting the Monday's their losses, the Japanese were ti•iidaunt- ed. They have brought up the siege Fighting. guns, and have left no stone unturned A Tokio cable says: The result of the to retain the anastery of the situation. fighting yesterday on the Japanese Every step ,the Russians have pushed left, where Generals Oku and Nodzu forward to -day has been iii the face of are co-operating in worrying the Rus- e superb resistance that has cost the sian retreat and attempting to crush Russians dear. The Japanese seem to the enemy's rear guard, is not known be willing to fight until they are an- yet. It is unofficially reported, lrow- mhila• ever, that it is going favorably to Tomorrow will be the tenth day of the Japanese . Gen. Oku attacked the the battle. main force of the Russian right, aim- ing to prevent the enemy from using e NO QIIESTION OF A SEDAN. the railway. He occupied Wufukai- un at noon, dislodging four battalions 'm St. Petersburg., Reassured of Monday's of 'infantry and several batteries- of tl Despatches. artillery, and afterwards he repulsed A St. Petersburg cable despatch says: The news from. • ee rrent I,,,.iugni. .ls more reassuring from the Russian standpoint. The situation is still re- garded as being critical, but General Kouropatkin is evidently holding. Ja- panese firmly in his centre -and richt wing, even having crossed the Shakhe River, and, while there are renters u1 an extended Japanese flanking move- - rent, both on the east and on the west, there is no evidence that they are ac- itualiy occurring. General Iionropatkin's left wing has been heard from. The strong Rus- sian column which had been sent by him 0 the left'army, but time attacks were en- tirely repulsed and heavy losses were inflicted on the enemy. "At sunset five or six battalions of the enemy, with two or three batteries, again attacked the same column. The column is now repulsing them. "The enemy's dead left on the field in the direction of our left army, 'Oct. 15, increases the total to about four thou- sand. Many dead remain in front of the left army, but they are too numer- ous to count quickly. .A correspondent with Gen. Oku gives details of another Russian stand at Lisuhinpo station, and in the Chinese villages near by. Tho correspondent telegraphs : "Early. in the evening the Japanese advanced but Were unable to drive the Russians out. The Japanese then at- tempted to out through along the rail, road in order to prevent a Russian re- treat. "This determined Russian stand was largely unexpected, tee rest of the line having withdrawn. "At midnight the Russians attacked the Japanese line and after a hard fight, lasting four hours, were driven back with heavy losses. "The opposing forces spent the night within rifle range of each other, and kept up a continuous exchange of rifle fire. The guns banged away all night, throwing thousands of shells into both camps. "At dawn the Russians again at- tacked and were again repulsed with heavy losses. This morning the Japanese succeeded in advancing, slowly press- ing the Russians back. The fighting is still in progress, and the Japanese have captured the railroad station. "The Russians made a most deter- mined stand at Lamutie, a village just east of the railway, and fourteen utiles south of Mukden. Lamutie completes the lines aimed for by the Japanese, with great loss an artillery counter attack. Attacks and counter attacks alternated throughout the day. Many of the Russians engaged on the right were new, and apparently new troops. They did not show the stubbornness of the veterans. It is believed that the stand being made by the Russian right is to enable the main army to cross the Hun River, the noithe.rn bank of which is strongly entrenched. It is ex- pected that the Russians will make anpther stand there. There is little news concerning the Japanese right. Nothing has been re- ceived confirming the report that a to turn the Japanese right, had to fin- l large he ®Russian force has been isolated ally withdraav, though General Mitehen- The fighting yesterday greatly in- ko seems to 'have actually penetrated creased the casualties. The number a considerable distance• inside the Ja- panese line. The report of the opera- tions of the Russian left wing is still 'three days ,old, and since that time no news. has been received from this colrmtn. The situation at this date may be described es follows: ' Gen. Kouropatkin has slightly ad- vanced his centre; reoccupying Shakhe, south of the Shuklie River. Directly behind hili, at n, distance of nine miles, hes the Hun River, and across the bridges spanning this stream the Rus- , -signs - must retire in ease they retreat on Mukden,. Gen.'Kouropatkin must - continue to firmly hold his centre and right flank in ureter to prevent the Ja- panese getting possession of the Hun River bridges. '.thus he will cover the withdrawal of his apparently beaten . west wing. There is still uncertainty as to the disposition of this last column Certain- • ly it has not returned to Mukden; whe- ther it again is advancing after its first withdrawal is not known. It is no longer a question of a Rus- sian Sedan, though all thought of -reliev- ing Port Arthur must apparently be abandoned. Little • hope is expressed O that Kouropatkin Will be able. 'to .con- P tinue to adh'ance. di The four day+s' fight of the eastern Tis column was of the same desperate char- acter that merited the operations of the centre and rght wing. A heavy Rus- of Russians killed 'is now placed at 17,000, but this apparently is largely conjectural. The headquarters staff calculates that the Russian army at the outset numbered 200,000 infantry, 2,600 cavalry and 950 guns. • TO SAVE BAGGAGE TRAIN. The Object of the Russian Counter At- tack. A Dondon cable says: Nine days' fighting has not brought the battle of the Shakhe to an end. The latest news is contained in (,en. Sakh1 • despatch, which is dated Oct. 17, S a.nr. sic tai to roff' the ast night the Japanese took the illage to the left of Manutie, an•d this orating they took one to the right. "A deep and wide river connects the Tee villages. "With about forty guns to the north f Lamutie the Japanese made a direct attack. The village to the right was taken by two companies of infantry, weho advanced under cover of the, river bank. Amt advance was then made to the east along the north bank of the river. `Behind the Russian guns are lines of great baggage and ammunition trains, and the determined resistance was for the purpose of protecting these until the retreat should be accomplished. "Large numbers of infantry were seen retreating all day.• They were shelled by the Japanese heavy artillery. "The fighting along this line for the last 48 hours was the heaviest of the entire battle. "The Russians had a division and a half, and they were frequently exchang- ing the troops for fresher men. They had over fifty guns. The Japanese had about the sante force, including the heavy guns captured at the Battle of NanShan Bill (Port Arthur). "'The•losses during the six days' fight- ing have been very heavy. •In front of a portion of the left army 1,500 dead were found in the first four days, indi- cating that the casualties have been 'not less than 7,500. "The estimetos of Russian' losses -in e sig, days' lighting run from 10,000 2'e,000. CPChe eteee .ase casualties have not en estinnatc,:, but it is believed that .y will be mueh less than the Rus- ns. ' "It is believed that the Russian pro e to offer resistance along the Hun er outside of Mukden. 'The Japanese probably will push for - rd with a view to forcing an entrance Mukden as soon as possible. 'During the last four days' fighting left army captured. over 200 prie- rs. It is reported that the right army k many more than this number," THE FIGHT STILL ON. s be There is nothing from airy source jtestis. frim even an inference of what has happened since. All accounts agree in ] h statin; that the fighting to the west- ward on Sundry was of the fiercest we eharaeter. The Russians succeeded in to holding the Japanese along the Shakhe, which they are not yet reported to the have crossed.. The Standard's correspondent with one Gen. Kuroki's army, telegraphing under ; too date of Saturday, says that, despite the Russian resfrtance; it :-would l o hard for them to escaPe the net which is closing their in. Their ease was Les confidence in the immediate continua- tion of the Japanese advance, adding: "With reference to the peace, proba- bilities, I Can only say that the desire for peace is but a natural feeling of humanity and the result of the horror we all feel at the awful carnage now taking place. But it is late in the day to be terrified at what is happen:Rig. It should have been foreseen and pre- vented. It is not for Japan to' judge if the tin'ie has arrived to talk about peace,. This rests with the government of Ern- peror Nicholas," SAI{HAROFF REPORTS. That Russians Repulsed an Attack and Captured Village of Shalandtzy. St, Petersburg' despatch: The general staff has reeeived the following des- patch from Gen. Sakharoff, dated to- day: The Russians repulsed a Japanese at- tack on their eight wing during the night of Oct. 17, and seized the vil- lage of Shalandtzy, on the banks of Shakhe River and east 'of Shakhe. ,The enemy strbngly bonnbarded the cap- tured village, • but did not advance to the attack on Lone Tree Hill, now called Putiloff Hill. The work of burying the dead pro- ceeded.all night along.' Military honors were paid the Japanese dead. • A considerable concentration of the enemy's troops has been observed against our centre. There was no fight- ing yesterday on our left flank. NO TIME FOR PEACE. Any Advances of- President Roosevelt Would Meet With a Rebuff. A St. Petersburg cable despatch: An announcement from Washington saying that the administration believed that the time for :mediation in the eastern war is approaching, has created en unfavorable impression in government , circles here, where there is an inclination 'to as- sociate it with the interview of the Associated Press with a diplomat at Tokio, suggesting the propriety of re- newing the efforts in behalf of the res- toration of peace. The idea el peace, it is asserted here, could hardly come more inopportunely, with the Japan- ense in the full flush of victory. It has 'amused only resentment here, and there is no doubt that if President Roosevelt should actually• attempt to open the question at this time he would meet with a rebuff. A MASTERLY RETREAT. Kuroki.Has Bernet—he Blunt of the Fight and Suffered Heavily. London . cable: The greatest admir- ation is expressed by the London news- papers to -day for the 2ability displayed by Gen. Kouropatkin in protecting his retreat, but nowhere is any idea enter- tained that the Russians' first decided success on the Shaklee River can change the broad character of their defeat or have any effect beyond retarding slight- ly the eventual'Japauese advance' to Mukden and probably to I•Iarbin,siGncee the Japanese appear to be fully prepared for a winter campaign. The Standard's correspondent with Gen. Kuroki, tele- graphing under date of October 15, sayg: Iiuroki as -usual has borne the brunt of the struggle and sustained a majority of the casualties. We are now occupy- ing the line, of the . Sliakha with out- posts near Mukden.- The Russians lost the initiative on the second day of the battle when the Japanese repelled their infantry•'and assumed a -vigorous offen- sive. For a time the situation at Ben- zihu was extremely critical, the Japan- ese being practically surrounded. Event- ually, however, the Russians fled, leaving 1,800 dead on the field. We are now presing the enemy away . from the rail- way line into the mountains.' GIFT OF. A FARM. Alfred Beit's Donation to South Africa is Valued at £8o,000. Johannesbi}rg, Oct. 24.—Mr. Alfred Beit has presented to the Government for educational purposes the Franken- veld farm, twelve miles from here, which is valued at £80,000. The farm possesses *he features of advanced agri- cultural science. A reservoir has been built an the Willcocks principle, and across the Jokeskei River there is a moalie mill in =full working order and plant for the treatment of timer, pro- ducing poles, for which there is a great demand from the mines. Eight hundred acres are under plan- tations, and 200 are laid out in vine- yards, orchards and nurseries. Mr. Belt's original offer was condi- tional on the Government acquiring an adjoining estate costing £20,000, after which he undertook to spend £10,000 in increasing -the area of the farm, bringing the total up to 2,600 acres and enabling farming to be carried on in all its branches, including a da,'ry farm and a veterinary school. The Government• accepted the pro- posal with gratitude. OVER r7,000 IMMIGRANTS. i Figures at Toronto Port Greatly Exceed Previous Records. Toronto,' Oct. 24.—The Ontario immi- gration Ofice at the Union Station re- ports that 15,425 immigrants have been registered as arriving during this year up to the end of September. Besides these, about 2,000 have come in by way of American ports, of which the office has no Oficial record. The official fig- ures show an increase over last year of 4,562. Some 3,800 of these new -comers have been placed on Ontario farms by the immigration agency. Others have gone to various Provincial towns, and some have passed on to the Northwest. Farm labelers have come in fewer numbers than could ;be desired. During the last three months the immigrants have been almost all mechanics. now RUSSIANS STOIMI3D THE LONE TREE 11LLL For Valor and Slaughter It Will Take a Place by Itself in Military Annals. St. Petersburg cable despatch: The issue of the bloody drama below Mukden is still in the balance. There is no at- tempt to minimize the severe character of the reverse suffered by Gen. Kouro- - patkin last week, but as yet there has been nothing absolutely decisive. There certainly is no rout and no Sedan, and the war office has not yet given up all hope that Kouropatkin may be able to again resume a genuine offensive. It is asserted here that the tone which the diplomats and newspapers of 'T'okiosas sunned in referring to what they seem to look upon as the closing act of the tragedy of General Kouropatkin's army is certainly premature. Both armies are greatly exhausted and the final issue probably will depend on which can re - gather itself the quickest. The Russian legends are terribly battered and more or less demoralized, but the splendid - manner in which they went forward against Lone Tree Hill on Sunday is sufficient evidence that the temper and courage of the troops are not complete- ly shaken. The Emperor this morning received Kouropatkin's ancl Sakharoff's reports of the Russian' attack on and capture of the village of Shalandtzy, half way be- tween Lone Tree Hill and Shakhe, and simultaneously the stormingof the ,for - mar, thereby gaining two positions of, the. highest importance on the south bank of the Shakhe River. There was no fighting on the Russian left yesterday, -and the Japanese opera- tions on the eatrerne, right evidently intended to crit the railroad below the Hun River, have failed, the Japanese being unebio' to get•, beyond Sinchinpu, two utiles west of the Shelche railroad station. Field Marshal Oyama seems to be massing troops against the Rus- sian centre; and the War' Office here expects that he will make a desperate ef- fort to -night 'or ta-ntoi'row to retake e • • valua.'ble positions:' The gen- eral staff believes that the storming of Lone Tree Hill for valor and • slaughter will occupy a place by itself in military annals. Kouropatkin, under Whose eye the assault was imide, re-ehristeired it l'outiloff Hill; in hone* of the man who led the attack at: the head of the sec- ond Imrigade of the east. Siberian Rifle Division, and who' was subsequently de - rot e 1 on the field •with the ' St. extremely • desperate. How far the rally Sunday bettered this position is et present only conjectural. Other eor- I A ses on Both Sides Enormous --Serious sian column, under such leaders as Ivan- respondents mention that a huge hag- alt b ori', Rennekamp?i Oerngross and Kon- gage train was visible north of the pre dratovitch, repeatedly assaulted strong- Russian lines, and it is assumed that ent ly-entrenched Japanese positions on the counter attiueks largely aim at pre- he 1 heights commanding the passes. The venting its capture. on assaults were larges night work. The 1 this ti cannonade was so furious that it was ASSAIL GEN, OXU'S LEFT. ire In impossible to advance in the light of — figlr • day. Finally, on Oct. 13, when the pass- Six Attacks Were Repulsed in Success •mix o 'es had been actually occupied, came the T ` ' order to withdraw, probably owing to a mon Pas o -critical position at other parts of the A Tokio table!' The Russians fierce' der hi front. Here the story of the operations ly assailed (.?en. Oath's left column yes- imp h€ of the eastern wing of the Russian army ateer d £• rand made six counter attacks, all s ends. which wove suceossfully repulsed. at it At sunset waren tate last telegram seas ever Charges Against the Japs. Mukden cable despatch: Cannon nie is raging more fiercely than on vious days of the fight, Which is now ering on the second week, can be and here from tiie south. The losses both sides have been enormous, but is forgotten in the crowding of adful events upon each other. The ting •still continues without "inter - sloe. he wounded from the fight at 'humin s state that some positions were un - fire from both- sides and that it was osible to remove the wounded. .[t is aged that Japanese partici working iglrt, hailed the 'wounded, end When- replyewas made in Russian lrayo- y ie "A -small body not the manly at ho- iel A London cable: • Correspondents de- kuanchi retreated) before our • pursuit. w scribing cite easel -age in tlte.l,attie at tee fart at it halted at Hua Pass and part War a Shakhe record tate terrible results of tate of it at Iiitotai Pass. Oin pursuin lcol- t,; •hand-`eo-lrancl fighting. Whenever the turn ocnpicd Ouauelu-. S Japanese stormed a position -tile Res- "Tho enemy,• a, •brigade atron , is ester scans, atter delivering volley .after vol- now assembling in a village a thousand ley, would rush out of their trenches, -metre, to the northwest of p 5 ne elm ii meeting. the assailants with bayonets, .artillery T +tai 'eastern Penchi. Iof fight c nam, at the eristertt ctrl of '•:I. wester and chtbbed rifles , in ccdeaV, ih_e villa};e, A 'fovea' of- about two bat - ors to stop the advance. • Hundreds were 'terns of artillerythe s is visible on heights mare hacked to p'eees with bayonets and northwest 'of '1'a. Pass. l-nfves, . while others had 'their skulls - "Tare state' of the. elle: in pun •crusltect with rifle butts,. the centre ninny v front of pont - , 'lite surgeons on both sides found it until evening. 3. remains uriehanged, tont eseesessese. r'+ e^ne with the unceasing "On to p :atxeant of won td.. Oct,. l fl 'ab ane r ed, .care best oi•,�aniz. tr" : Hitacls o„*aa7ns+t one left. '+ ea inn of BODIES STY DEEP. sent from the field, :the, Russians were nett advanenlg for a seventh time. save Terrible Resu:t of the Hand -to -Hand The following report dealing with the Rusi • Fighting. attack reads : d the sufferers. Some, it ' is. said, d themselves by feigning death. The ins recovered 3.00, clee.d: TO FIGHT ALL WINTER. 64 to be Prosecuted Through the Cold Weether: London cable: The . Japanese Min - 1 e, Liam un- li.axY sx. , .,i .., , ,,,, •, - to -day on the result of last week's ing, said to the A.ssociatecl Press: he war will be continued through rimer, which, - in some respects, is suitable for operations : than the rater. The next point ;of rend im- ance to be taken is '.l re Pass, When is accomplished there is nothing revent the" Japanese advance to nmy nnacle;srx conn- Harbin; lee 11inistere'pearressed the utmost Gc:s •Cao „ ss, • The hill is a precipitous, rocky height and although the Japanese had occu- pied it only a short time they had thrown up very strong defences. The river running at its foot increased the difficulty of the task, but it was scaled and carried successfully against the un- precedented opposition of a Japanese division, 14,000' men, with many guns. The Russian losses were terrible. Thefighting on the crest of the hill was alto- gether with cold steel. The Russian officers with swords aloft leading the scaling column were literally lifted in the air, by the Japanese bayonets, and the Japanese then bayoneted the first of the Russian soldiers who piled in the. trenches. All the dead in the trenches, were bayoneted, their weapons bearing marks of the dreadful combat. The Russian line, according to the war of- fice, still extends eastward along the shakhe River ' to Uindiapu, where. it crosses the . Mukden-13entziaputze road.. Further east the roads leading north, from whence there is a direct road to Tie Pass, are also strongly held, it being feared that Oyaina might shift the weight to his right, thus reversing the situation at the opening of the opera- tions, with Rouropatkin pressing the - Japanese left, in other words, duplicat- ing the strategical disposition at Liao. Yang. While • the war office bolds out hope that Kouropatkin may resume the, general offensive, it is privately admit- ted that the chances are against him unless there fs' some fortunate develops ment, it being .explained: that his as- , stutiption of the aggressive at Shalrhe analong the railroad was vital; as the withdrawal of his.left must be made uns der the shelter of his right. ,The -de- spatch of the Associated' Press, from Multden, filed early 'this morning, and announcing that the artillery fire coli - tinned unceasingly throughout last night, indicates doubtless that there will be important developments to -day., Noindication was given, liosvever, of the object of the firing, or which side was tint aggressive. Some of the newspapers,' notably the Slush, boldly hail 'the,Rus• sian snceess `at' Done Tree Hill as com- plete evidence that Kouropatkinwild again make , a genuine advance along the whole ]ine, printing the announces merit in.. big headlines: : "The Russians resume the advance. IKouropatkin has erossecl the Shakhe. River. He has -`�i$Oss 000 men and '90tr etitir5i'!'