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Show SpUTDS ARE Jtoppedbyrain Mads and Plains Are .1 Impassable, I Wilitary Operations About Mu den at a Standstill. Stand-still. k niltory Cannonading and Unim- portant Skirmishes Only Are rfe( Reported on Friday, e co, i Mb- J,dii S)NDONT. Oct 22. Military opera-Vi, opera-Vi, as Jn Manchuria are awaiting the -' 5ns of tho roads and plains rendered Jassablo for artillery, and even for !ntry, by the heavy rains. Meantime ! correspondents at the front have y, desultory cannonading and unlm-Tio unlm-Tio tant Eklrml9hes to record. i"Wki J Shahko Village Bombarded. at J dispatch from Mukden reports that t jRusslans yesterday confined them-3Sx them-3Sx vcs to a bombardment of Shakho soii ilon and the adjoining vlllago of matung, the Japanese feebly re-fndlng. re-fndlng. This news shows that Shakhe erj' tlon Is not held by the Russians. do2 Eeserves Sent to Front. lussian correspondents report that ne regiments of the Fifth Siberian J t-rfej fps have been engaged in slight aEtia rmishes on the advance line the past X tis f days. The fact that the First and lilris tin Siberian corps are the only corps . herto unmentloned In reports of tho tprs htlng on October 19 shows that Gen. Uftii iropatkln has sent the reserves to the npc: iiches, giving other much-tried corps Idtti thorough rest. Meanwhile the Cos-;! Cos-;! tc? Iks are 'raiding the Japanese lines. Efforts to Recover Guns. .develops that after the Lone Tree YI- rout the Japanese were unable to Tove a number of cannon in addition those left on die hill, and which re-I re-I ( Ined midway between the Russian M. 'the Japanese trenches. As they u y i frthese guns were .o exposed to fire ' h both sides that It was impossible (either side to get them during day-it, day-it, and repeated attempts have if made by both to secure the guns dark. Up to the present Cossacks 'e got three of the cannon. Tho iterity of Uie Cossacks in this sort of rk was repeatedly illustrated during V 'Russian army maneuvers. On one I 1 Rsion they abstracted the artillery II J ijess, disabling all the batteries of , IrrThol combatants, j, Eighth Corps at Harbin. 3H tie first detachment of the Eighth jS has readied Harbin, and the re- id ?df'r ,s expected to reach Harbin j. tila three weeka Meantime three ."JUh brigades are beginning to start Ellie front It is expected that this provide 20.000 troops. By tlx.- time force in started for the far East i 'Sixteenth corps, stationed at Yite- 0 .yor the s.oiul corps, at Grodno, scty": be rtady to start. 1 . Has Audience With Czar. 5 fa &n, Grlppc-nbfrg, who is to com-rettw com-rettw "j? lI,e second Manchurian army, was j efved in audience toduy by Emperor D, , :holas at Tsarskoe-Selo and had a .i p conference with lilm about the dls-rr? dls-rr? ch to the far East of the remaining ' ps of the second armv. . |