Show DEFEATED RUSSIANS ARRIVING AT TIE PASS PASSI I Kuropatkin Miles Away in Command Comm nd of Rear Guard I Enormous Losses of the Russians in Men Guns and MUi Murii of War Rumor that Prisoners Pris ners Were Taken St Petersburg March 11 llA A dispatch from General Kuropatkin t timed 6 p m March 10 says x The retreat of the army was very ery dangerous especially trying for X those corps which were some distance from the Mandarin road The Japanese penetrated far into the mountains in the direction of or Tawan lawan They threatened our troops but thanks to o extraordinary ef forts torts our armies annles are out of danger The enemy cannonaded the route of our retreat from the east and 1 wet west The eastern Mandarin road was bombarded at two points 1 near i Tawan and the Pu river Our troops are very brave 10 The reason the th Japanese advanced so easily easil from the south is that i the Hun river which is covered by b our position at Mukden was fro frozen frozen frozen zen over General Is wounded but remains at the front St Petersburg March 11 p m mIt It is reported in the military o clubs dubs this afternoon that General Kuropatkin has lost guns and i about td prisoners besides about the same number of killed and i wounded London March 11 llA A dispatch to the Japanese J legation le from Tokio says saysA A Japanese detachment has lIas reached the Pu river thirteen miles 1 north of ot Mukden and is inflicting considerable damage on the retreat i lug ing enemy i e Tokio March arch 11 UThe The general staff starr estimates the number of or Rus flus Russians Russians engaged in the present battle at infantry cavalry 4 X and 1368 guns The infantry calculation allows for tor 3 6 battalions with 3 an average avera e of men each 5 t information from the Rus Russian Russian Russian OFFICIAL O sian headquarters in the Held field supplemented by dispatches from the Associated Press correspondents W with ith the army of the Russian empire f w that General Kuropatkin after alter suffering from the most severe defeat oC of I tho the war has succeeded as he did after I the battle of Liao Llao Yang in extricating the remnants of his army onny from froni a poi position position tion which military experts twenty lour four hours before believed would re Fult in Its annihilation or surrender The retreat from Liao Lino Yang Tung has been considered the most masterly event but It is far overshadowed by this lat latest est cst feat of the Russian general who has lias 11 15 taken personal command of the troops After fighting for nearly three I weeks p ks losing in killed wounded and missing probably a third of his army arm I or nearly men and a fourth of his artillery Kuropatkin gathered what j i was as left together north of Mukden and andis andis andi is i taking them toward Tie pasa pass through a rain of oC shrapnel which Is ising bring ing thrown on them from both right find Ind left Same Tactics as at Liao Yang This he seems to have haye been able to by resorting to the same tui tics which saved sayed his army aImy at Line Liao Tang Yang As recently as Thursday last lie In 11 commenced sending his artillery orth by rail TaU and road That night he destroyed by b fire what he realized could not be removed Even the hospi containing the more seriously t wounded were left behind so as not to in any way wa the movement of the army arm This move moe nt commenced on Friday Frida morning and as the Japan Japanese ese t CS forces on the east which were to join hands with the western army and cut ut off the retreat did not cross the road until Saturday morning the Russians had a full days das start of their pursuers and having no guns nuns or baggage to delay them seem to fc ave ive made good their escape j There is still however a chance clu nce of v army taking a 1 ind in the battle and should they strike the Russians at Tie rie pass or cut their communications to the northward l the disaster to once fine will be complete The shrapnel jr re under which the Russians are again i 3 treating was found not to have very i rIous effect as ng the army arm was scat tf red and straggling which undoubted undoubtedly ly holds good in the present case So SoH ir if Kawamura falls fails Oyama and Kuro rear guard can hold back the pursuers the losses suffered in the bat tk tIC will not be greatly added to In the Linevitch Cut Off What part of his army the Russian f has saved apparently is not known at the Russian headquarters AH dispatches indicate that part oC or his f 3 free force has been cut off general Kaul Kaull V l rs seems to l Have Lve extricated his corps likewise but not so with Li ii evitch The Associated Press correspondent Bi s the Japanese surrounded the First Firsta a artl nj d a Fourth Russian corps and adds that help could not be sent to them Their fate is not recorded and the In Inference ference Is that they the have ha ye suffered either defeat df ft at or capture The censor no doubt took out of the dispatch what leally zeally happened to these corps The First is old corps which Jas borne the brunt of every ever battle sine Bime and the Fourth under General has also been in inthe inthe Inthe the thick of all the battles fate is still sUll in the balance dance b The Japanese report the cap cup capture ture turl of some rolling stock of the light military railway built along the position pm and the road which runs from the 11 main ma line along alonS the south bank of the Hun river toward the Fushun mines The confidence of the Japanese is shown in the statement published b by Field Marshal Oyama O to his army early t rl In the week that they would be bein beh Jn in Mukden Friday Frida morning He was true tru to his word ord for early that morn mornIng morning Ing fog the old Chinese capital was In their hands bands The Russian government and people are as determined as ever eer to continue the war The family famil through rand Orand Duke Vladimir has spoken and Vill be backed by the official and mill mili military tary fury classes while the feeling of 0 the people eople even the advanced liberals is expressed by the Russ the organ of the liberal party While many were op opposed opposed opposed posed to the war ar the Russian people would resent a surrender to Japan Still SUII in Europe outside of Russia there is a feeling that peace will vill fol follow fOllow low this latest disaster to Russian arms SITUATION AT TIE PASS Many Russians Arriving at Haven of Refuge Tie Pass March 11 2 p m For lanI aJ all the approaches to Tie Tic r 4 Pass are arc covered with troops artil artillery artillery lery and baggage transports pressing northward and miles away awa the strong rear guard of troops which is commanded by General Kuropatkin it retiring slowly doggedly disputing with the pursuing enemy enem every foot of ground in order to cover coyer the retreat to the rear of the army The losses in this his defeat which is the most moat bitter yet et experienced by b the Russian army by a moderate compu computation computation computation tation are not less than men on both sides Enormous Sacrifices The Russians in addition sacrificed enormous quantities of munitions and stores the greater reater g part of which were set on fire before leaving Mukden It is impossible to say whether the Russians will be able to put up a fight and hold this position or whether it will wUl be necessary to continue to re retreat retreat treat to Harbin but the rank and file whose military qualities never shone so brightly as in retreat r or defeat d foot are aro far from rom being panie n n under capable leadership and if given givena a brief b time to strengthen positions may be able to check chck their pursuing enemy at this point The Order to Retreat The order to abandon Mukden and retreat to the Tie Pass position was given at 9 tin n the evening of March 9 At dawn of that day the Russians held a line on the Hun river from a point ten miles east cast of Fu Fe Fushun Fushun shun ta the west front ex ox extending extending tending to a point six miles north of Mukden station the continuous line of battle generally genera II paralleling the rail railway railway railway way four or five miles distant A terrible t dust storm raged and ten tension tensIon sion aba had reached Its extreme limit It was realized that if any a 1 point of the Russian line gave way wa all ail would woul be lost Commanded in Person The position In the most extreme danger appeared to be north of Muk Mukden Mukden den station where it seemed for a time that the Japanese might break through and entirely cut the lines of retreat General Kuropatkin concentrated heavy columns there took command himself and succeeded during Thursday morn morning morning morning ing in forcing the Japanese back from the railroad and also alBO in driving out bodies of Japanese east of the rail railroad railroad railroad road The maneuver appeared to point to success when news arrived that the Japanese had broken through between the slender First and Fourth army arm corps taking advantage of the hurri hurricane hurrIcane hurricane cane that was blowing clouds of dust into the faces of the Russians to de deliver deliver deliver liver an attack which the Russians were not prepared to meet Support Was Impossible It was impossible im to support the re retiring retiring retiring tiring corps as the reserves to the last lastman lastman lastman man had been sent ent to the line of bat battle battle battie tle tie at other points and as the danger of communications being severed by this attack from the east was imminent imminent nent neat retreat was determined upon and immediately immediate I began The four tour principal roads leading northward toward Tie Pass were com completely completely occupied by a continuous file of artillery and transports and the re retreating retreating retreating treating army blackened the country countr between l The Torch Applied Before beginning the retreat all the depots stores and military m ill tar buildings and everything that would be of service service service ice to the Japanese was set on fire A large amount of baggage and many manyguns guns n were abandoned All rolling stock belonging to the railroad was brought away and not a single car or locomotive was left leet at Mukden About 1500 severely wounded Rus Rua Russians Russian sian and several hundred Japanese were left at Mukden hospitals The remainder of the wounded wound d in hospitals were sent northward and a railroad train remained behind almost with the rear guard find and nd brought off a trainload of those wounded in the retreat many man manof of whom reached Tie pass without their Injuries being bandaged Dreary Retreat Mukden station was abandoned at 7 Friday Frida morning The retreat was disagreeable to an ex ox extreme extreme A dust hurricane blowing di directly direct directly southward filled the eyes and an faces of the troops but at the same same time tended to blind the enemy and de do delay dela dolay lay la pursuit from the The retreating columns were bom bombarded bombarded bombarded barded on both flanks by batteries which It was impossible to silence the shells reaching the mandarin road from the east with especial frequency from the village of or Tawan eight miles north of Mukden and Pu five miles further north Under these circumstances the retreat was conducted with astound astounding astounding astounding ing precision islon which was largely due to the personal efforts of General Kuro Euro Kuropatkin r at who with ith haggard face an Continued on Paso Page Pa o 2 j DEfEATED RUSSIANS I ARRIVING AT TIE PASS I Continued on an Page Pace pa o 2 i uniform yellow with dust was every everywhere everywhere 11 where when needed Fought With Valor The troops composing the rear guard fought with extraordinary bravery braer un under under Under der the very eyes of the chief and the morale of or the entire army arm under the circumstances was ex excellent excellent The cause of the Mukden defeat is attributed to many man reasons one of the most important of or which Is insufficient information concerning the Japanese and their strength which was vas far in excess of Russian fl calculations The censorship bureau at first recommended recommended mended work wo k at Tie pass but is return returning returning returning ing to the rear guard communication with which is still sun open |