Show FLANKING TACTICS Japanese Plan to Force to Pail Fall Back Backst BackSt st Petersburg Sept z 5 p in 01 The Cu cause e or of the extreme in the Japan Japanese advance e on was ras explained by a dispatch patch received from General Kuropatkin this after afternoon afternoon noon which indicates that Field Mar IRr Marshal Oyama has not yet f his forces Frt Frest troops are constant constantly 1 ly arriving at hll others which recently na reached hed Lla Yang are marching marchins up the river Vtol to Sian Chan Thene reinforcement presumably come from Japan As soon soona a as the fourth Japanese arm army at Suit Chan is sufficiently stron strong it is ha now evIdent the Japanese intend to resort to their favorite flanking ta mo moa mova a formidable array against K Kuropat l kins left and compel the evacuation if r Thy They art are evidently the ground over which th the Sian Chan army will march marth U up and cross the river Meanwhile General Kuroki is ig trying to seize and croon the Hun river far east of oC Mukden Thence he will move down don the river and with witt the fourth from Sian Chan Chao while Gen Genera era cram s Oku and engage Kuropat t kins attention south of Mukden The Th attacks on na pass and kl Sept 20 were the first symptoms 0 oZ this vast cast flanking movement now reports that Japa 1 i t tese ese scouts b hive ve been encountered near the Hun rivet river halt half way to Mukden trying to seize pass ten miles milf s northeast of in order to clear cleer the way to Fustian and 1 that ha t Okus anti and r zus outposts ha have Vf engaged In skirmishing with near between Bea an anthe anI the railroad A t rD the troops at Odessa the will go to Ki bra bid u to divi ion sion famous for tor If 11 paS passage Ale ot of l tb b Danube General Tte Jat latter probably will ill at attend the ceremony General D is greAtly II bled In health which whicK may r render Impossible ible lila going to the far east as aschi chi chief of staff to the Grand Duke Dake Nich ih |