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Show I' I Japs Attempt Surprise ; or RiissiaiiSo ij: ftlade Effort t Steal Upon J' Advance Guard of Czar's ' Men. ';; fk 3Latt8r Too Alert and Brown Men !t :j Compelled to Evacuato Town I; M , of Shakhepa. I I 1 ' ', I rUICDEN", Oct. 22. The Japanese ! f hurriedly evacuated Shakhcpu, three , i C miles east oC Shakho station, on Thur3- ' I day night In order to escape being sur- 1 , jj rounded. Under tho cover of Thurs- J j day's fog they had tried to Hurprise tho j ' advance fruord of one corps on the Rub- !l lan right flank. The latter repaid i 'i them In their own coin with Interest by jij i, taking Shakhcpu on both flanks and ri ,i not leaving the Japanese any alterna- jl , tlve except a hurried flight. They 'j l"' abandoned a quantity of arras and ara- ;: munition. Several Japanese camo Into ' '!- the Russian lines and voluntarily sur- . ,j rendered. j'jfl Total Losses 40,000. . The total losses during tho ten days' fighting (the correspondent does not 'il j mention whether they were Russian or j'J v' Japanese) were 40,000. According to Information from the ,!! : ndvanced posts the night of October 20 J : ! passed quietly. No big developments I;M L-xpccieQ ior several uays. ;"j I "Wan fun Pass Occupied. The Army .Messenger today nn- jjj nounces that the Russian column east- 'If ward advanced October IS and occu- Pled without resistance "Wanfun pass j!! :id tho valley of Huan pass, lying i eastward. j ' j1 Confirmed by Kuropatkln. 1,1 fl Gen. Kuropatkln. In a dispatch to I ! ij Kinperor Nicholas, under date of Octo- jl her 21, says: j "The Japanese retired from the vll- J j I ,nse of Shakhe at nightfall October 20. iJ ! Thursday night passed quietly alone j,l , the entire front." Hf' Llcut.-Gen. Sakharoff, In a dispatch j ,; to the general staff, says: , !' "The retreat of the enemy from Shakhe was precipitate. We found In Jjj! 1ho, village arms, munitions and pro- hliji visions which had been abandoned by Ilie Japanese who also left behind on i ,!');!, oul' old artillery position one cannon, four limbers and a wagon full of in-.trumentfi in-.trumentfi they had previously cap- I u, "'red fro;n us. Since tho battle of Oc- ..,U lober 1C we have captured altogether ,j'J'.: fourteen Japanese guns. Including nln ill' Pieces and five mountain guns and 'j have retaken one of our own lost guns i !!, 'There was no fighting October 21 on ' j 'I t'ic front of the Manchurlan army " |