Show RUSSIAN I t tb REAR REARGUARD b GUARD L CUT T r General Men Almost Annihilated in Iti the Race Haec For Mukden FEARFUL SLAUGHTER OF MEN St Petersburg Gives GIn Out the Ih Information tion laps Appear to have ort flyer thing In lii Sight i I St rn et t li Ii reported nt at 11 a l late ate hour that list Q n rear mear hat lid been en almost mid and that the Ibe main army IH lit II litIn ed In 1 imminent of ot being belll surround surrounded The Tha naPes 10 during durIn U 11 the fight ills nt at ft Lino Lillo Yang ore are at 1 15 tt t 0 There lucre II it no lie 11 doubt cOUI here that thiat A number of guna Uld especial siege nr or have been ben abandoned A St received from Ion Gen Ku Iu n forwarded 1810 hul elItes nl hat UiRt Den Oen t 1 army arm G II army are Ie tIdal racing tarin f ii i n Mini that tho result i ti II l lit In doubt n ten n says tayi ay that the he re rl retreat treat IN II being In trUe The repeatedly ut I locked the Ih ie tear r on un Sunday unda but il In iii every lver case ca they tl were Duin Sept 11 i 1 t th the J Japanese P n their foren op o the tho left lef ItC flank extending ln lines lilies from froin the Yen Tu Til Tuti mine north norh northwind wind Hid J utica also all on lp 4 4 roared old the this Lino LIao And amid n J H It lii I l 11 II Vt i ouis J Field s whole army am amII IN Is II the tho Ih T river riter anti Is Ii I pur purden stung den leti I forces forcel St Sl Pt S 5 J 81 0 a m rn mIt 1 It IK hi 1 impossible at It this hour to tl ob oh obtain tain any nn stal statement ment from tram the author 1111 ties the reported Pf prepare P leH louis lions for fat the hs abandonment of or Thin Is tile the first ri Intimation that list such uc a Ihl 1 oat courie U Is l contemplated If I It Il turns turn to he be true It I means me n the Ih abandonment of or the lie whole of southern r Manchuila and tho ha winding up u of ot the present campaign In fact should Mukden be bs evacuated titers would b tie no point pint for or the army arm of H II quarter of ot a million with Hi 11 Il many man wounded short of ot Harbin On Oi the other hand the evacuation of ot Mukden would give Field Marshal commodious winter whiter quart r rand 1 and the practical control of n two title lines of or railway The he line tapping rich Chinese territory In short abort of Mukden with stops little o wih which h It Il II Is connected by b a good god wagon road rORd The he report of or the prospective of or Mukden If well wel founded r I lid el would Indicate that Ihal the crippling l effect of the Ih Mao Ilao al lighting fighting on Oil 01 Id 1 MH 11 army 11 IH lul more serious bali lusi hii as asyet al asyet yet t been 11 A of the Ihl war situation to 10 date shows how the whole Russian army a 11 or at It least tho iii portion of It II Is abote RUO VAI nn Tan TAl station ami suid all Is II pushing on toward Mukden Field Marshal ORI I entire army liu hI hits crossed tile the river pert part of ot It U UIs ItI itIs Is I onto hank A silent column nn on the Ihl east Is 1 rapidly north In Itu II nn an effort fort to heed off the this column lout Clou 01 kin kimi hal Imi sent out a cavalry di dl division lt vision Isol to 10 the It Is iii Is III Already A In lii position to 10 check the Iho Japanese I 1 1111 Hankers while to the Ihl Is III moving a It di dl division vision toward 30 miles wont weRt of Mukden to moot moet any An Interference ence NHO that lint I may bo be attempted a from noun the lie I direction of nf or advance Is IR reported r to lo bo ho en engagIng the rear hill butt It II IH is not expected to 10 develop anything moro more se serious serious rious rlou than a 1 series of ot rearguard so Rr lion ions tending lo to harass retreat The Japanese have thrown a strong flankIng column across arMIS time the rivet river at III 30 miles northeast of Lino Llito This column Is I hurrying to 10 the northeast and en to get In lii between thus the stat and nil Muk Mukden MukI lIen den It II is lit i this movement that hiss dispatched with a strong division which It Is III believed already la is I blockIng the eastern cadent highroad hiss three OVet nyu which he lie N Is toward Mukden besides baleR the Ihl The littler IH is h occupied In lii Ito of puns guns and amiul A of equip trull equipment ment 1111 of ot which there are lint great ulhan Iuan titles The rue fh soldiers ruts nie marching In Itt light order and smith of ot the wounded brett been nl ready dispatched north by rail roll Con iou In a II telegram n to the Ih general staff tiled At nt 1 I p II in nt Hept B G north of Yen Ven nays the this on In engaged hits his rear guard Yon Von rat Tal lie Ibe fight tight continuing until Monday The rho fh telegram details this the precautions taken to 10 checkmate the JA 1 his hili losses houses up UI lo to Including nil Sept I I at Al TItle Thin Is III to be n uc very tr conservative HUI The Tho loss to In the thA Japanese Will he be double this thin number owing to In their position 1811 Ion ax sa attackers says BIOS III nothing regarding lie tho loss of or Bime gUta but bilL It Is hi probable pro nomo utopia of nf the hue heavier guns gluts at 81 Ilao YAng lund had lo to be he b tl Them ThemIs Is no truth either r In the report luau linn been hel wounded or that list n Is I to MR hut support len Jen Is II still at al Vladivostok |