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Show ISTILL HAS ARMY IN THFAR EAST I Russia's Line Retreat I I Not Cut If llOyama's Trap Sprung Too PLate to Bag the Prey. jKuropatkin, "With - His Forces, Is c"N -1 Slowly Falling Back to , -M " Tie Pass. T 1 If I fBBT. PETERSBURG, March 12, 2 a, m. . aRUasla still liua an army In the far East pSa Its lino of rolroafr Is. not cut. Field rflSfifarshal Oynma's trap was again sprung '13Bo lato to bag- tho proy he desired, and jB?ou Punaca on tne rcai" aml both jjiflfanklji by artillery and losing heavily In wjjlt5, wounded and prisoners, Gen. Kuro-fcBetkln, Kuro-fcBetkln, with the main portion of his HBforcea Intact, Is falling slowly back to Tie-IpaHS, Tie-IpaHS, whither a conslderablo part of his Jhrmy baa already arrived and Joined Mnand8 with tho reserves In preparing a uTKosltlon behind which the beaten army INEiay find shelter. i Kuropatkin's Whereabouts. IsGen. Kuropatkln himself, with the rear jpjnrd, was reported Saturday ufternoon i In tho vicinity of Syanzla, twenty-tlvo milts below Tie pass, having accomplished J omo fifteen miles of his retreat and belli be-lli ins already beyond tho Jaws of the trap H as originally set. How many of his men Jjj ffo was obliged to leave behind, and y whether any of tho units of his army 'III Rrro cut off or captured before tho re-treat re-treat began. Is not stated. Relief in St. Petersburg, illi $Bolh Gen. Kuropntkln's official dispatch Jgt ind that of tho Associated Press from Tlo Sfess were lllcd Saturday afternoon. Tho fews contained In theso dispatches will Bl WU80 unbounded relict In St. Petersburg, I pljlch, In the absence of Information Si Ince Kuropatkln's laconic "retreat be- Irun." published Friday, had come to brieve br-ieve Toklo rumors that the entire army rpuld be driven to tho mountains and itJ forced to surrender. 15 J No Tactical Difficulties. JA long day's march, or even two, re-gain re-gain to be accomplished, but the retreat now presents no tactical difficulties, and fjj k believed to be largely a question of jj jhaklng off -tho pursuing Japanese from sjfj & Hanks and rear, and apparently no l longer a matter of cutting Its way iji through a formidable force. I Dispatches Are Held Back. fa jjTho Associated Press dispatch from Tic lass was Med with great dlfllculty by tho ifl respondent, who left Mukden with tho e! ar guard, spent Friday with Gen. Kuro-W Kuro-W jfitkln nnd took a long ride to Tie pass yt' laturday morning, after which ho again S returned to tho front. Tho dispatch indl- jatcs tho strategy of Field Marshal fljg )ynmaB double turning movement. it Regarded as a Feint. ytti attack on this aid Is regarded as WSt-reJnt, but as having been designed to &Bve tho Jaws or the trap closing east at the village of Tawan, on the Mnn-l?B?rln Mnn-l?B?rln road, where a mountain range polnt-gftfT polnt-gftfT like a glcantlc finger southwestward IsJJfgward Mukden begins to slope sharply 4way from tho road and tho railway. |