Show TIE PASS IS NOW IN HANDS OF JAPS Dispatch Indicates Rus Bus Russian Russian Bussian sian Plight Flight worth North Norh Column Colun South of Tic Pass Fass Repulsed sed by GRAND DUKE TO HEAD HED ARMY KUROPATKIN TO BE DISPLACED BY Now New Chuang March 16 The Jap Japanese anese aiese occupied Tic pass Wednes Wednesday day at midnight R n ii II len n reports report have bave been received cd jy M I VI from a Russian Ru ian of a light fight fight eight ti ht miles south of Tie puss pass be bet t 1 II 1 t 1 force under General IH tl w l and a n Japanese column UK tui of which Identity is unknown The J 3 I wits WiS w repulsed it it is ig said sid with a aI I of 1000 10 killed kie The The rumor that aft c tin tw evaluation of Mukden eighty for forC C Ihn gi I r rs iM an an American n ws j 1 Correspondent had bai been bt en In l by Chinese hin e is discredited d by the Jut jut I ut that the in iii question j m ported to his Itis paper on 01 March It 1 that J it c had been captured by the Japanese was as being taken to Kobe A steam team c arriving at ut Singapore reports has hav having hu ing a squadron of tW Jl in HP K warships wa hips about twenty twentY miles c fl vt t of nf af the nc to the thc Straits of Two Japanese Jal anto cruisers and awl andt t o n auxiliary previously l ly ar Ul ji J nd l JIt A Singapore Presumably the e i Hs pl are on out their way westward in scat h 1 of if 1 the tue Second Pacific F r last reported in Madagascar RUSSIANS REPULSE JAPS Bloody Fight Eight Miles Mies South of Tic Pass an March L 15 1 5 noon noonA A an n combat occurred cm un March 14 CM Ci Ci the tho tl center advanced line lne of the tho itus F in army eight miles south of or Tie ne li pass Jh Russians repulsed tho th 1 and esen c n made a u advance adul through H I t thousand corpses corpel of Japanese ai I i ant aiRing ing a SL large force on out Oi the right Hank Vank t hare General wh win h has ta tak k kii n command of his bin detachment is f the Japanese in check The 1 1 troops have llave their the r nor 1101 11 il and fought cheerfully che It I is jl that kill Mv foreigners in after time the ian evacuation or if that 1 ce in iu including it is j said sud lp nt Rich RUh eid eil eil II I 1 Little LitE of the tho Chicago Daily OMi w The Ti fate of M 1 eu a H rench newspaper correspondent who lived with wih Mr Little Litte i is iK unknown A was vas sent to tu Field Marshal OY yauna Ia today toda asking for information as ast at asti t ti tIme the fate fate of the tho two cor respondents t iMadean Nadean is iK reported to have lavt hu n beam c by the Japanese Jap le at Tie Th pass pas J for cv in i almost impossible l t ally a 13 aU tle newspaper n ew ev correspondents Ji iii ti l left ft for fOl Harbin For several the Associated A Press PreM Pre correspond correspondent ent unit has hat slept sept without covering on III n the tho JYo frosty tv ground Jound and ad for fOt tw two o days lie he had hadi ha i 1 thins to eat esi eR OYAMA AGAIN FLANKING Japanese Swinging Around the Rus Russian Russian Russian sian Right ts St Petersburg March Mar hn 1 ji t 2 a m 1 3 l Linking tactics by ly the th Japanese ap are in progress again u the tine AS POP Press PreM who re ye j at Tie pass l S telegraphing that if c on March Mateli It 14 1 on n f Jl d a ti Japanese force foree on the tine Russian H sian right l ht It I i Is po possible Ibl that the attacking n o was a 8 Japanese column which h disappeared from observation during 1 the l battle of Mukden The Tine do rpm nl not riot appear apper to have renewed renewal renew the attack up 1 U to noon non yesterday ay ll demonstration on oat 01 Tuesday hawing having that the prepared to tJ make mm a determined resistance The rime office of the censor has already al 7 n a removed to a H point pint c ht 11 north of Tie pass pas and aind there there rf intimations that it may nitty ma soon be es est t t even farther north The Time As AI F I date fated Press Pres correspondent corre though hough Filing nothing regarding the cominis arrangements for the troops troop u d do that the thu newspaper r correspond ud c Fits ts have h ve practically been been starved out cf ef Cf Tw TIe T pass p This may perhaps be an au J l li ut of or the amount of tf f food avail chic hJ for the the th army immense quantities of which were destroyed d at Mukden h practically the entire entre reserve c had been accumulated V cording q to the time Chinese reports report the governor of Mukden gave prave ue a banquet In 5 honor of the Japanese generals af ufer ei their triumphal entry Into tine the the city and andri a ri Russian journalist wires that with th tin occupation of or Mukden by the Jap Jal n e prestige with the Chi hl 1 L Jr ri Sf e has ha been utterly destroyed Time The Thee he f e says that it is already 3 and that a triumphant vic vie vict t try ry would restore in iii the time esti t j Uon of the Chinese Chineo which she he held B ti 1 par ear par ago ag It I is iii i rumored that an order for or a aTal ag g Moral cral Tal mobilization ha has been prepared t md that a a new array army will wIl be forwards forwarded to to Manchuria MS Hd fast fust as b by railway and the tine summer steamer teamer 01 I i 5 P I WHY THE TH E RUSSIANS LOSE Correspondent Tells Reason of Re Reverses Reverses Reverses verses of Czars Men Ment if t Petersburg March 35 M Kiriloff r t of f the Associated Press PIe Russian Ru lan t i respondents who was wa wounded a at atI I il Yang Yan continuing today his de dc deE det t E ripton begun yesterday of the time causes of 0 the lIme Russian RuMan defeats has ha drawn a picture of or the complete crim J i lou hi il 1 lack la k of or knowledge on 01 the part o of lh th Russians of the time country and the time ther r mys lilys movements and ald of the th utterly gossip and amid babbling which P m the time Japanese Javanese with every movement and plan plain plan before it I is huang inaugurated mutated He compares the Russian army t to a powerful yokel yohel moving forward blindfolded folded wildly brandishing hIs hid I arms anus IS and shouting aloud what he Ime wIll wil wildo wi do ho o to the tIme enemy when he mci catches him himlIe He lIe 11 cannot see e his path nor his enemy lien Here he stumbles stumble tip nip a nt n mill hill hI There rh re he falls fals into unto a 1 valley Idle The rime en 1 5 omy easily culy avoids his waving arms aruns and mighty lists and pours hours JOUr in a succession of glows which send th the Russian yokel yoke yokes i JuS s backward to t t his Il bitter iter aston M 1 Kiriloff adds that the blame for forthe the tho Iw successive detests defeats deCet in is not Kuropat It I is simply duo due du to the th fact that tha that t the hI machine Is e out of order A good gooc workman was waK wa given bad helpers am an and miserable tools The Tho rTe elements element of mis misfortune riB fortune fort une were in the time army any itself Be hold ld the result The mishaps mishap were at attributed attributed to defensive position of Ku Kuropatkin and It I wa was wan said that when the fhe 1 hf Russians assumed aume the initiative tw al alv al all v be well wel This was not bruu f every r movement was wa proof on rae Face 2 4 T TIE PASS IS ISNOW NOW UN IN HANDS OF If JAP Continued Page 1 d to failure by the premature pub lit lii or dilatory execution of or tho the thoI I J 11 i i The merest t chatters chatter recklessly and in of dispositions and move mover TT p r which should be known only Mo the th few chiefs The disposition and andT T UPS of ot the battle of the th river for example E were Openly discussed dl cussed st Sf f r ral days das in advance In the tite railroad re r t taut ant at Mukden In the hearing o 01 miny Chinese civilians and camp folio followers xv ers Babbling the thc Sane Dane TI Tl general staff glair gives Information to asks It Babbling is the thet th 1 t ir 1 r of the bureaucracy says sa s the M 01 II t ff fr and the sooner it is correct E C 3 J th better While V thus opening the Japanese c f s th Russians close cIoe theirs Not NotI I lI and battalion comman com man but ven en colonels and at times Umes u 0 1 menders of divisions enter Into 1 i tl ignorant of the tile very maneuvers t i are expected to execute For in InS js S i 1 ft General Orloff Sept 2 was on en ont ent t u with the th movement on which f U tt t of or Liuo Lino Yang Yan hinged and an he heI i I I i Hy in men Into action ig Isri 11 i 11 3 nit t of ot whY wherefore or whither Is r Aurally there was Avas a disaster instead 0 o destruction of or General G f l CS s I nd a It victory victor The Tho general staff starr J to the duty C n JJ 1 ph Even Een 1 en now the Russians 1 I i f unsatisfactory maYs maps and units in int Int Int t i l hill lili country are aie unable to keep leep In Iii InI I St s r 11 i with wilh each ea h other Tile The Russian nUH ian II l 1 t department is defective It ItI 1 I ov 0 ens a 9 nothing of or the Japanese num t I C positions or movements not only i fl 1 Unsettled un mountainous regions 1 it fn J on the populated plains of j hurls hurla Instead In oC or easily securing t of oC the Chinese the Rus RUH Rusts ts a f i 1 alienated them and they now side v If i h Japanese The Russians drove It et 1 the tho Chinese bandits who are now 1 1 4 v S of oC the Japanese army and andi i 1 destroy letroy bridges and communicator I tor Lor 1 a well w Kuropatkin Is also ham hamff hamit ff it r I 1 by frantic reports from nervous g K rI riis particularly particular those of or k Id ii iff who wIto lio sends poems instead of ofT v r T 1 late Lieutenant General Gon ral Keller I v a d also aHo at fault Kuropatkin Kuro atkin was 1 to reprimand him sharply sh a sott ot tnie before b forc hl lii his death These Those If existed and audI still sUll exist The army h m born defeated and will be in the fu Lu ture unless they are remedied |