Salt Lake Tribune | 1904-07-13 | Page 1 | Ready for Death Grapple

IA1I HAffll Sppsisitij Amies low Face Ext liter. Soth Aro .on the Heights Across the Liank River. 'Burning Question Now Is Who Will Be Pirst to Cross the . Stream. HEADQUARTERS OF GEN. COUNT KELLER. NIUT-KIAY. 11 Miles West of Lian Dian Sian. July 12. The opposing oppos-ing armies are grimly facing each other on the heights across the Liank river, ready to engage in a death grapple. The Liank crosses the main Llao "Yang-Feng Hnng Wang Cheng. roa.d twenty-eight miles east of Llao Yang. It flows north Into the.Tai Tee river, which passe through Liao Yang - and empties into the Liao river. May Transport Trains. The correspondent of the Associated Press, who arrived here after a thirty-Hve thirty-Hve mile ride from Slao Llndji, saw long lines of Infantry and transport trains winding up the rough mountains. At Lian Dian Sian a lookout stationed in a tree top. pointed out the way to Gen. Keller's headquarters!, near Nlut Klay. There the Russian Eastern army was found, hidden in the hills. In a plain tent the correspondent saw Gen. Keller, living like a simple soldh-r, his staff being quartered in a native hut near by. The General looked cheerful and was bronzed . by exposure. He talked of the engagement at Hoi Yon. Pride of Russian Army. Around the General's tent' were many officers of the guard, the pride of St. Petersburg. To see them as weather-beaten weather-beaten as the Cossack officers one could scarcely believe them to be the dashing dash-ing guardsmen of the Russian capital. They have become hardened fighters, for hardly a day passes without collisions colli-sions between the advance posts of the Eastern army and the Japanese. Thc whole army is anxious to fight Gen. Kuroki, whose headquarters are at Vandlapudze, and whose men aro entrenched en-trenched on the other side of the river. The burhlng question is, Who will be tho first to cross the broad valley of the Liank river?