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Show AS HISTORY RECORDS IT. iLast .Week's Battle in Manchuria a Russian Defeat. ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. L'O.-Tho enforced en-forced cessation of operations by the bad weather. If the Japanese offensive haa really exhausted Itself, gives both armies an opportunity to pull themselves together to-gether and would seem to Insure as much benefit to cue tldo as to tho othor, for practical purposes- When operations re-commonco re-commonco they will assume an entirely now phase, with new dispositions and objectives. ob-jectives. Practically last week's battlo has onded, and It goes into history as a Russian defeat When operations are ro-sumcd ro-sumcd a new battle will begin. Alexieff at Mukden. Tho reappearance of Viceroy AlexIefC at I .Mukden today for a conference Is not LcVla.riy 1'caf3"r,nEr, as such conferences confer-ences in the past have not yet been fruitful fruit-ful of success. Horrors of I, ono Tree Hill. Thc correspondents aro Bonding voluminous volum-inous details of the horrors of tho cap-turo cap-turo of Lono Tree hill. Tho slopes Tnd mnW covered with mffl h'k a' ,Ilturns out that In the TtvgT- hichHmnrtty:flrS,t regiments, w men made the defenso of tho crost ovcry Japanese officer killed had a compass com-pass on his poison. No Fighting Wednesday. There was practically no tlhtlnfc yesterday yes-terday and nono whatever ast nlchl ofhCtrhJ?VldenCCv.ofv.n n,w dlUs flon of the forces on both sides C,n iri, ropatkin I oxtondliw his rtght. whe&w with a view to a turning movement tlr the safety of Lone Troo hill, tn ImVor-tancc. ImVor-tancc. of which point is fully realized by L ?,P'Tncf e' w httvo attempted to tZ take It in two nljsht attacks, or whether to meet and thwart a Japanese turning movement trom the west haa not yet do? ye oped. Tho Japanese also appear to be shifting welcht to tho westward. Recover Prom Blow. Veiled hints continue to arrlvo that th fe .have recovered frorn tho blow Inflicted last week by Field Marahni nayH?Qand that Gen-Kuropatkln la 55S liK'M KothderJ?trUBE, 300n No Light on Jap Moves oJSS? "to PrepiVtac u rati S5?ktaf, i7!r h"."10' ,?.,ln," SIS?: MlJhlBK Son,otl,lnVit"t"h, lff, 0 U"")m:. |