Show RETREAT OF KUROPATKIN Russians Went Through a Rain of Shot and Shell TI Ft 1 1 cp mAi 7 1 Oc oi k q teft ex slon sion which lew up the 1 ripe bridge bri lc and an an immense n cloud p p of o smoke from the burning settlement t gave in indisputable indi Indisputable disputable di testimony t of General Kuro decision to relinquish also the second of his grat groat positions t deci decision decision sion slim which was known on Thursday The my was withdrawing all Ike latter half of ot the night while the houses of the settlement had been va vacated Vacated earlier and their lights left burning Morning showed through the great smoke clouds low lying for miles about the settlement armies three and four miles deep deen in all the main roads ro ds moving north along the cast east side of the railway rail wa way The battle still centered north of the Imperial tombs v with ith occasional shots along the Hun Bun river where later an opening permitted the Japanese to tomake tomake tomake make a quick advance and dash to toward ward wad ard their main operation with w th the purpose of f concentrating and cutting off the Russians Shelled From Three Sides At 1130 O tho Japanese had bad partly suc sue succeeded succeeded for at the Tawan with shrapnel nel nd they the shelled three sides Of ot a rectangle rectangle angle where the main army a my was moving movIng ing lug with great lt exertion over made Inadequate quate thoroughfares thoro The Japanese however h accomplished ac l at this place nothing more than a momentary stam stampede stampede pede and though a soldier crazed by b his efforts threatened to Shoot a cor in order to take his bag baggage bagga baggage gage ga c cart for tor himself the correspond correspondent ent cut observed everywhere the admirable coolness which has has distinguished the Russian army throughout Its trying re retreats retreats retreats treats of the past year This retreat must be reckoned as a wonderful spectacle For miles mUes In Infantrymen Infantrymen infantrymen and baggage wagons today toda strew the line of march For rapidity the Japanese movements for tor the first time were wre outstripped by the Russians withdrawing The Russians perhaps had bad more mor morat at nt stake than in any previous pre i ious ous battle with the Japanese Crucial Point at Dark The crucial point of the retreat oc occurred occurred i at dusk when the rear guard troops and the transport which has reached ten miles mUes north of ot Mukden suddenly received a riffle stampede The success of the Japan Japanese ese in closing against the armies try trying trying tryIng ing to get away avay from the extended Hun river idge position was evident In ordering a n retreat General Kuro Kuropatkin Kuropatkin Is said to have declared it was done in order to satisfy protesting opinion and that whatever the blame he would take it which In the light of events seems to show that he best knew the th capacity of ot the soldiers Getting Out of the Trap The battle on the right flank and around Mukden appears to be the greatest of the war except at Port Ar Arthur Arthur Arthur thur During the terrible dust storm of or Thursday the Japanese with ma machine machine machine chine guns occupied several empty houses In a village held by b the Rus Russians R s and otherwise bettered b their po position position west of ot the railroad so that when the retreat came with Japanese shells on all sides bides it suggested another Cronje incident For ten hours not a aman aman aman man nor nor horse rested while the wound wounded ed were being gathered up on the two sides in the rear and often orten In the cen center center center ter and every ever energy was bent toward getting out of the trap the jaws of which were almost al ost upon the Russians At the th Associated Press correspondent with others lost all baggage in the retreat Losses L 1 Many bodies of troops were encountered encountered encountered some of ot them in advance and some on n the rear l r which were constant constanty constantly ly y mistaken ml taken for tor Japanese Forty miles mUes retreat was accomplished in seventeen hours It was virtually through plowed fields with enormous dust clouds which made it impossible to see any an distance A great amount of the equip page ammunition suns guns uns and stores or of orthe orth the th Russians were lost The losses on both sides are reckoned reckon d dat at for the entire c fight |