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Show IffipiieH MB 0&A NOP WATCniKG IS TENSE AND BIG BAIILE IS EXPECTED araSHtJ ASS.4 Manchuria, May 24. The situation f. very tense and Jhe. rfval ' commanders .Vara watching, each other like hawks, Field Marshal Oyama has made no decisive move ; Gen Rennenkamptt j however, made , a bold reconnaissance ; at the cost of several hundred casualties, but the correspond ent of the Associated Frees was not aP lowed to 'telegraph the results obtained. It is possible that it was Bennen-kampfTa Bennen-kampfTa : cavalry which. . penetrated southwest of Fakoman. A. dispatch from Toklo, May 22 said: "A body of ' the enemy's cavalry, dismounted, dis-mounted, attacked - Tangshed, on the right bank of the IJao river., thirty miles southwest, of . Fakoman. on the, morning- of May 20. After an engage-meat engage-meat lasting two hours the "enemy retreated re-treated In disorder toward. the southwest. south-west. -j abandoning 800 . ,: killed , or wounded"itj : V: r-:.V ' BUSSXAsV lKrAHTBT.' - '-i 7 '-'.'';, - 2PT7XS$3? BY 7APAXESS; -n ; I v V Dr. BXTBXAT. j '. - i-y-s.m. n j a'rtny iAffltiMrm .thw.fallnwS ing announcement todays $ . '. . . . . ' "On the' afternoon of May 21. a battalion bat-talion of '-Russian Infantry and six squadrona of- cavalry-attacked the northern height at 'Chinyangpao. ten miles north,: of 'Wesyuanpaomen. but were repulsed. - ;J 1 '" On the morning of May 22, a battalion battal-ion of Russian -Infantry1 and three troops of cavalry.' advanced along' the Ktrln-Taclu roads' toward Chlenchen-txu, Chlenchen-txu, and ;one company -of; infantry gained the western height near the village, vil-lage, but we repulsed them.' ' x "The Russian cavalry on the right bank of the Llao river commenced a retreat re-treat on the morning of May 22 and at o'clock- In the afternoon the enemy had reached ' a point south of Talun, which Ilea seventeen miles - west of Fakumen. - ' ' , 'With - the exception of small collisions, col-lisions, there 4 otherwise no change In the situation? ', , v - . . .. i |