Show KUROPATKIN IS BADLY WHIPPED Are A Ar Before Carrying Cag Them Everything MARCHING ON MUKDEN LOSSES ON BOTH SIDES RUN INTO THOUSANDS March 4 7 p m in mia via ia T n Tsin According to the latest reports reps received here lere the Russians are e burning buning Mukden Mude sta eta station stat tion t n and their stores store preparatory to a retreat There are ae persist persistent ent reports that the Russian left rr te has ba been successful but that their tei right is One hundred hunde Japanese cavalry cavar arrived arved from the north nort this Uris after afternoon ater afternoon noon They exchanged So hot with t Russian Rusia scouts In the te outskirts of or orthe the town Two hundred Cossacks are three miles east eat moving north The Te Japanese are are scouring the countryside General Generl I Headquarters in the te Field March 4 via ia Fusan The Japanese have gained a sig signal signal signal nal victory victor beyond the Hun lIun river defeating in n detail two divisions of ot the Russian Rusian Sixteenth corps cois re recent recently cent arrived arive from Europe with wit great geat slaughter and capturing huge quantities of or ammunition The Russians still sUJ hold their main line lne of defenses The Russians fighting stubborn stubbornly ly y between midnight and day dat daybreak break brak made four attacks in heavy heay force fore against the te contingent of Japanese which gained gine their first frt 1 line ne In front of Waita mountain Thursday night The he Japanese maintained their foothold and re repulsed r repulsed pulsed pulse the Russian attacks in inflicting inflicting heavy losses on the te Rus Rims Russians The Te Japanese held the 1 ground grund two to nights and ad andone one day da In weather weter below freezing The Te mo morale I rale of oS the Japanese troops is splendid x a aST OT PETERSBURG March Ia h 4 5 ST p m The battle batte raging at the front has hag assumed enormous Already one of the Associated Press Pres Russian RusIa corres correspondents cores places paces the Russian losses at men enad and those of ot the te Japanese at It is added I that tat the te attempt to draw drw a a net around General Generl Kuro Kuropatkin hits has hns not yet succeeded but it Is stated that tat the Japanese from Sin Min Minin Mm Tin in are attempting by forced marches to cut the te Russian Rusian line lne of communications tons General Genera Kuroki according to the te lat latest latest latest est reports report is stalled staled by the Russian RusIan left left but the Russian center is yield yieldIng Ing ig slowly before the he Japanese on onslaughts onslaughts onslaughts Whole Army in Danger On Thursday Field Fjeld Marshal Oyama shifted the to to life left seeking to t envelop the Russian right eight ight miles southwest of ot Mukden In I the hand had to hand had fighting which followed and ad con continued continued for four hours the loss on both bot sides was enormous But the most serious news Is I the report that tat the Jap Japanese Japanese anese attacking column colu at Sin Min lIi Tin about thirty miles mes west yest of Mukden has Ims divided part art of or it moving straight east to roll rl up the Russian Russi n right wing while the other is making forced marches north with the te evident pur purpose purpose purpose pose of cutting the Russia Russian line lne of communications with wih Tie TIc Pass Pas and closing cosing the retreat Should the operations prove successful the th Rus itus Russian RussIa sian sIa army ary might be surrounded NEWS OF DISASTER Berlin Newspaper Has Alarming Re Report Report Report port From St Petersburg Berlin BerUn March arch 4 A dispatch to the from St Petersburg says General G Kuropatkin In in a n telegram which arrived ar ved here her at 7 last lat evening said sai Japanese had bro broken broken broken ken through trough the Russian Rusian left lef wing and that It i yas cut off of from the remainder of the army ay ayAt At 10 came ce another dispatch horn flom General Kuropatkin which read The Japanese are marching on Muk Mukden Mukden den My position is extremely dan dangerous dangerous dangerous I In government circles here today there is a a conviction that General Ku Kuropatkin Kurop Kuropatkin rop has ha been fully beaten that part of his army has ben been be n dispersed and the railroad north of Mukden will probably be cut RUSSIANS R MYSTIFIED FI ED Were Unable to Grasp the Objective of Oyama Mukden March 4 1 1 a m The Rus This Russians are holding on desperately to their positions Although the fighting hs bs now been in progress six days the officers here are mystified as a to whether er the actions at the wings are not be being beIng being ing demonstrations to facilitate the chief object of the Japanese to break breakthrough breakthrough breakthrough through the Russian center or If It it Is IsField IsFIeld isField Field Marshal Mar al intention to turn Mukden on which side Is the real realm movement m ement and on which the feint feint One of General staff officers said sid to the Associated Press strategy Is to break the center and then the te wings and compel a demoralized retreat retreat but un until until til ti now the Japanese attacks the center have been only measurably suc sue successful successful which Is i the key tp to our position on the right flank fank was wa the scene of awful carnage last lat night The Japanese concentrated concentrated on it the fire fre of over guns and then attacked with wih the th bayonet According to t the reports coming In they were ere repulsed d dand and in a a counter attack our men cap captured cp captured seven machine guns Trains are re leaving Mukden ceaseless ceaselessly ly for the north with wounded men a nd d stores o REPORT Japanese Successful Under Adverse Conditions General Gener G Headquarters in the te Field via Fusan Friday March 3 The Th hotly hot contested engagement waged since across the river riverfront front from is still sti proceeding proc late this afternoon under un er conditions Ing great hardships upon the attacking force and favoring those defending the entrenchments A large Japanese contingent which crossed the plain plan directly west of Wito san sail sn in darkness dak s succeeded In gaining gig the first ft line lne of the Russian trenches to the great astonishment of the Rus Bus Russians Russan san The Tho Russians have have since been mak making a fleece fe ce resistance re In the second line t of or the th trenches on the he summits on Pat 2 21 KUROPATKIN IS I BADLY WHIPPED WH Continued from Page 1 of or the foothills and the Japanese are attacking tacking them spiritedly The night t was bitterly bit cold and day It i Is freezing and a thin film fm of snow covers the earth The rhe Japanese are obliged to wear the heaviest cloth clothIng clothIng Ing lag which with the cold and continuing ing snOw flurries handicaps them |