Show OUT OF THE TH E TRAP Kuropatkin Falling Back Slowly to Tie Pass St Petersburg March 12 2 a 3 t tRussia m Russia still has bas an Army in the far east rost rostand and its line Un of or retreat Is not cut FJeld Marshal trap was vas again sprung too late to bag the prey he lie de desired desired desired sired and though pounded on the rear and both flanks and artillery and los losing losing ing lag heavily In killed wounded and pris prisoners prisoners prisoners General Kuropatkin with the main portion of his forces intact is faR fall falling faRing ing slowly back to Tie pass whither a considerable part of his army array has al 01 already already ready arrived and joined hands with the reserves in preparing a position behind which the beaten army may find shelter Beyond the Jaws of the Trap General Kuropatkin himself with ith the rear guard was reported Saturday aft afternoon afternoon afternoon In the vicinity of or miles mUes below Tie pass having ac accomplished accomplished accomplished some fifteen miles mUes of his re retreat retreat retreat treat and being already beyond the jaws of the trap as originally set How many of his men he was obliged to leave behind and ana whether any of the units of oC his array army ann p were cut off or cap captured captured before the retreat began is not stated Unbounded Relief Both General atkins official dispatch and that of the Associated Press from Tie Pass were filed Satur Saturday Saturday day da afternoon The news contained in these dispatches will win cause unbounded relief in St Petersburg which in the absence of any information since Ku laconic retreat begun pub published published published Friday had come to believe belie e To Tokio kio klo kb rumors that the th entire army would be driven to the mountains mounta ns and forced to surrender Long Days March Ahead A long days s march or oven two re remain remain remain main to be accomplished but the re retreat retreat retreat treat now no presents no tactical difficulties difficulties ties and is believed to t be e largely a R question of or shaking off oft the pursuing Japanese from its flanks and pd rear and apparently r no longer a matter of cut cutting cutting cutting ting its way through a formidable lable force Hard to Get News Through The Associated Press dispatch from Tie ie pass was filed with great difficulty by b who left Mukden with the rear rear guard spent Friday with General Kuropatkin and took a long ride to Tie pass Saturday morning after which he again returned to the front The dispatch Indicates the strat strategy strater strategy egy er r of Field Marshal double turning movement The attack on the west side is regard regarded ed as a feint but as having been de designed designed designed signed to have the Jaws of the trap closing east meet m et at af the village mage of Ta Tawan Tawan wan an on the Mandarin road where a mountain range pointing like a gigantic finger southwestward toward Mukden begins to slope sharply away from the road and the railway General share in the scheme has las already alread been bell sufficiently chroni chronicled chronicled cled clod General Kuroki was to spring the other jaw which closing In lii be between between between tween the and positions and aid striking the river at Fu pass bit deeply Into the Russian flank was all but sprung shut Still a Chance Whether General Gen ral en corps or even General army was cut oft off to the eastward by b his stroke or whether they had already turned on the central army it is im urn impossible impossible possible to learn but even if these j forces are cut oft off they might have a aI I chance of conducting a retreat I According to the Associated Press i dispatch from Tie Pass General Kuro KUropatkin Kuropatkin seems before th the battle to have i yielded in his decision to retire to Tie Tiet 1 t Pass In deference to the united opinion cf his principal generals ge who were in favor of standing at the river and offering a battle and later on in ordering a retreat at to have hae gone counter to the opinion o of ot the same council Not a Moment M ment Too Soon Events show the decision was taken not a moment too soon The credit of bringing off oft the army therefore Is largely largel as he took per personal personal personal charge of the rear and ex ax exi i I posed himself ds s fearlessly and reck recklessly j lessly lessl as the merest m rest private on the I fighting lighting line Whatever may be the verdict of history with regard to the generalship in the battle nothing but the highest praise can be extended the Russian rank ranI and file Too Soon to Decide WhetHer er the retreat will pause at atTie atTI atTic I Tie Tic TI Pass or whether the army will make its next stand further along on the road to Harbin will depend on the extent to which Kuropatkin has im improved improved I proved the naturally strong advant advantages ages of this position and the condition of his army especially the extent of ot the supply of munitions and artillery and largely to the condition of the pur pursuing purI pursuing suing Japanese whose exhaustion may maybe ma mabe maybe I be too great to enable them to push home a determined attack at Tie Pass 1 St Petersburg Rumors I Among the rumors current in St Petersburg yesterday one was that General Kaulbars and his staff were among the captured It is impossible to obtain confirmation of this or any cf cC the other rumors assigning various specific portions of ot the Russian army to the fate of their Port Arthur brethren It appears best to await au an authentic authentic information before jumping at conclusions In the Russians Russian dark hour of o defeat the influential newspapers raise ralso no voice voKe A number of them attribute the major portion of the blame to a long FeriE s of or reverses rev not to military causes c but to the faulty internal or dr organization Organization of the country Bureaucracy Blamed The Th No oe in a burst burat of bit bitterness lays Jays all alt to the door of the bur bureaucracy b bureaucracy r as was the case ease In the Cri Crl Crimean mean war The government in sharp denial of peace rumors shows that at present at least there is no intention I of suing for peace and intimates that at ati i i the first overtures th must eman emanate em emanate an anI I ate not from Russia RusSa but from Japan |