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Show ran THOUSAND LOST AT YENTAI Terrible Slaughter in Ten Days. Present Calm Enforced by the Exhaustion of Both Armies. Every Indication That Battle Will Soon Be Resumed and Decisive Result Achieved. MUKDEJN, Oct. 22. Feld Marshal Oyama's counter offensive was definitely definite-ly checked with the loss of men, guns and munitions. Kuropatkin's Long line. Gen. Kuropatkin's array extends along a line running over twelve and a half miles south of Mukden and is supported sup-ported by strong fortifications on tho Hun river. Awful Loss of Ilten. The present calm is enforced by the exhaustion of the armies on both sides, which lost in killed and wounded S0,-000 S0,-000 men during tho ten days' fighting. Great Battle ITear. There is every indication that the battlo will bo resumed soon and that a decisive result will be achieved. Russian Loss 45,000 Hen. A rough estimate of the Russian losses during the recent battle places them at 45,000, of which 10,000 were billed. |