Show JAPANESE ARE f HIGHLY ElAT b Victory at L o Yang Achieved I Against Odds 4 c NO lONGER DESPISE THE 4 1 5 v 1 FOUGHT VELL BUT BUTI mR WERE nEATEN BEATEN 5 5 j ji i General I ur OkiS Headquarters in inthe the Field Near Lino LIao Yang Tang Sept S de delaYed delayed in battle of i Liao Yang Tang ws V a nt victory ot of which the Japanese have great rca rea j sons to be proud although they were 1 unable to re their hopes of bf another I Sed Sedan n I rhe he execution or of a campaign b by the Japanese upon such t a vast scale against an army rob their sU I perI perlor r In numbers arid and possessing more modern guns of greater caliber and range than theirs established behind fortu of great ss and ext extent nt and directed by skillful commAnders excites the high highest est admiration ot of the military critics Upset Plans It Is that at Llao Liao Yang General expected to turn the tide Of f war against the Japanese i It would now appear that the fighting of the past few the tall I ure ot the Russian movement to the I not expected to be decisive but was n a aerIe serIe of prelImInary opera operations conducted for the purpOse or of liar I assing the Japanese and gaining time for the crucial struggle The foreign I military observers with the Japanese army find convincing evidences s that 1 General d the armies arthies itt In tet ih rInd nd then to dispatch a powerful column olum 1 to the thi south for the eIle of Port Arthur and they are Of th opinion that with the thirteen divisions it at his command Gen General General eral could have pUshed this had the Quality ot of his Of and soldIers equaled that of the th J Japanese Danese Not until the 3 a tet live five days das of continuous battle did thO RussIans take the first steps of re le retreat treat With an a le anc an wi te rIver at hia Ok and aid a force of Japanese oP opposing him In the theler ler rear and on the flank General KUro was able to withdraw his armY Without losIng a single tle guiL one result of has bas been to the Japanese opinIon Jon Ion Of t the abilities of their antagonists than the exhibitions at the Yalu rivet find and elsewhere compelled them to en tt Today the army IS and it has indulged In n nd nc d demonstrations ot of rejoicing The work done b by the Russians in preparIng the neighborhood of Liag Lia Yang to be a theatre of battle is o Incredible magnitude In addition tO the extensive fortifications on the south southside side of th the river there were practically three lines ot of defenses for forthe o othe the protection of the eastern ap apProaChes of the railroad Which in themselves constituted a 0 formidable battle area The Thc fighting W was S carrie tight rIght Ul p to the railroad line but note not notwithstanding withstanding tIle the tact fact that the Ja datan nn ese shelled the last trains which lert Lao Lino Yang on the way waS to MUkden lt was as for them to Int hep any riny of the Russia rear gua guaras Terrible Picture Presented The ar area a north of tile the which war waz ought fought over ver bythe by the contendIng terrible Je pIcture of the re suIts of war The fields ar are dug with hundreds o lines of trenches marking the successive stages of r retreat and crematory fires are yet burning searching parties are bringing in Jap Japanese Japanese anese bo bodies les Graves ot Russian sol so can b s en nt at e e Y turn sonic some dug by comrades and others by Japan Japanese ese On one hillside is of two I or three hundred graves mark marked d by roUgh ticks sticks Many ny bodIes romaine remained I undiscovered ill iii the high grain and th thodor thodor odor of fills the thc air of cro crows hover about and hun bun dreis of Chinese dogs roam the fields Railroad Raid Intact S The portion of the In the possession of the Japanese remains practically intact The wood work ot of the railroad bridge was burned and and small section of the frame work was destroyed b bitt t non none ot of the piers an and the bridge COUld be bc made fit for tem tein temporary I use in a few days daS The station building remains standing Only a few houses in the Russian nt out outside outside side of the city wall whIch forms forma a a considerable village was burned The Chinese have hung Japanese over their houses Most or of the Chinese shops and all of 01 the Russian buildings building ere thoroughly looted on the departure of the arm army Both Rus ians and Chinese participated In the loot lug Ing |