Show REPORT Kuropatkin Thought He Was Win Winning Winning Winning ning Up to March 7 General Headquarters In the Field Monday March 13 The Rus Rue Russians rians have no stores between Tie pass and Harbin Harbi In Tn the last stages of the battle General army be became beI became came completely separated from the I of the forces Captured prisoners report that Gen General General eral oral Kuropatkin believed that he was IUS I winning the battle baUe up to March fareh 7 when General Nogi Negi pressed pr Mukden so O strongly on the northwest rth west General Ku Kuropatkin Kuropatkin Kuropatkin ordered the troops on the Ole to fall back and defend Muk illuk Mukden den thus forfeiting an opportunity to utilize the Sans river which affords I II a stronger and more natural line of re resistance resistance resistance than the Ranges of I hills command the plain and nd the cross crossing croSSing ing ins of the wide river bed is 15 dangerous on n account of or the partly artlY melted incited ice lee leeThe I The hills are strengthened str by a series ies of earth forts connected by b deep trenches This was w wa lost on account of is rapid march Some of ot the foreign for eign military observers ers ens criticise General Gen ral gen severely Field Marshal original plan plait seems to have hae Lees LeeR to hold the Russians along the th working around WOund them with both wings but ut th the th Japanese right was wag va fought to a standstill Th The Rus RU Russian RUstan stan sian retreat from the rapidly pursued gave th Japanese an opening to t cut the Russian middle surround Mukden and isolate the Russian left One thousand prisoners are being marched to Liao Yang for foe shipment to ti tf Japan They are a mixed mix lot Jot ing Poles Mongols and Kin Kii glue Their clothing and equipment fe is much inferior to that of o the Japan Japanese ese The Siberians SI who in th earlier months of the war ar were the flu fin finest fi n nest est men that Russia Rua ia has had The Russians that are voluntarily surrendering make on abject l The Japanese Japa ar are treating tre them tIMM mot most kindly |