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Show VEIL HIDES I MOVES IN EAST I No Collision Monday I or Tuesday. I Japanese Offensive Has Ex- B hausted Itself, Armies HI Deadlocked. II No Official Confirmation Report That H Kuropatkin Has Resumed M Genuine Offensive. H ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 19. The M flush of enthusiasm yesterday even- ing over the capture of Lone Tree Tj hill and Shakhe, the repulse of the at- T tacks of the Japanese left ana the hard I drubbing given Gen. Yamada, with the If capture of fourteen additional guns, has I given way this morning to a calmer and gj more sober appraisement of these par- 1 I tial successes. ft Both Armies Exhausted- jp There Is no official confirmation of the , jg report that Gen. Kuropatkln has re- sumed a genuine offensive. Rather the f general Japanese offensive has ex- m hau9ted Itself and that the position of ' f the armies Is now a sort of deadlock. Jc with the country rendered so sodden by jl the heavy rain as to compel a tempo- a rary suspension of general operations a A complete veil hides the' movements east, but both Kuropatkln's and Sakha- jl roff's reports say there were no colli- sions on that portion of the battleground if Monday or Tuesday. jjj Attempt to Retake Hill. Field Marshal Oyama evidently con- Ji slders that Lone Tree hill, from which is Kuropatkin could pivot a turning move- I ment against his left, to be of vital im- if portance as both Sunday and Monday J nights, the latter during a terrific storm. jl made desperate efforts to recapture It. j accompanying the assaults with demon- jjg alratlve attacks against other point?. Ill But all the efforts, failed. Neither Ku- j If WpiftKfi'i ' nor"' Saklmroff," in "the- die- jjj patches given out this morning, send de- j tails of the defeat of Yamada's column I and the capture of the Japanese guns, j Pitiful Pictures Painted. Pitiful pictures are painted by the war if correspondents of the shelterless 1 11 ( bivouacking In the cold rain, the roads jM converted Into quagmires and the m streams flooded. u The military critics are not yet satis- jg1 fled that Oyama Is ready to relinquish i the offensive, expressing the opinion that he may still try to break through fj the Russian center In order to compel js Kuropatkln to retire from the line of the Hun river, unless, as they believe. rjjj he has become convinced that the su- If perlorlty of the Russian numbers and jl reserves -makes his withdrawal to the m line of the Taltse river advisable. I Reserves Not Brought Tip. jjj Gen. Gelsman asserts positively that ffi up to yesterday Kuropatkln had not fj brought anything like all the regiments Jj of his reserves Into action, and the number of fresh units behind which his im battered troops could re-form accounts for Kuropatkln's ability to resume the w offensive. The line of battle thus far w engaged, counting westward from the east, Gen, Geisman eays, comprised 1 Gen. Bllderlngs Seventeenth European in corps, parts of Gen. SobolefTs Sixth tj East Siberian corps, portions of Gen. j Slouchevsky's Tenth corps, Gen. Mey- 1 a endorff's First European corps, and 0 Gen. Jiasalltch's Second Siberian corps Tho extreme Russian left, which ea- jjj sayetl a turning movement and was H meeting with success, according to Rus- K elan accounts, until the situation at the a right center compelled its withdrawal. 1 consisted of Gen. IvanofT's Third corps and Gen. Zaroubaloff's Fourth East Si- berlan corps, the Third corps bearing S the brunt of the assaults on the group 1 of passes of the Tumln range. There- B fore, two compiete corps, Gen. Stakel- fi berg's First corps and Gen. Dembow- I S ski's Fifth Siberian corps, and part of n five other corps are still unused. m No Fighting Tuesday. 1 A dispatch fr3m a correspondent of H the Associated Press at Mukden, filed nj.il 1 this morning, saying that there was no j j fighting yesterday and no firing during j 4f tho night, Indicates that tho Japanese II 3n are retiring, as the light of fires was jjijj seen against tho Jieavens, positively H m showing that they were burning their If yU stores. i Hi Tho correspondent also reports that & UW resumption of the battle Is probable as If!1 soon as the roads permit, the Russians HU' being everywhere in close touch with jflj the Japaneso. I jjijj! Czar Not Despondent. JijSj The Associated Press learns that the JjI reports representing Emperor Nicholas Ijlfli as being despondent and depressed arc Ijlfij far from tho truth. Gen. Velltchko, who saw him Monday night, declares KflKi' that whllo the Emperor Is greatly flM grieved at the terrible sacrifice of life. HhI he Is as firmly resolved as ever that the llrllf war must be prosecuted to a successful conclusion, and that he Is by no means filSf satisfied that Kuropatkln. in whom he expressed the fullest confidence, would lllnl not be able to turn the tables on Oyama HIS before the present engagement is end- Ufa'' d. By Gen. Velltchko, who returns at m once to the front, the Emperor sent a llfjf i personal message to Kuropatkln, re- IliwI newlng Ills expressions of faith and con- fjfffl fldence and announcing his readiness to MIj send such reinforcements of men and nfHa guns as Kuropatkln might ask for. jtj |