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Show TOKIO IS STILL IN ilil DARK full Extent o! Oyama's Victory Not Known. Prisoners Will Number in Neighborhood of Sixty Thousand. Casualties and Losses, in Guns- and Munitions of -War- Are i Enormous. , . TOICIO, March 11. Tho . full ex-, tont of tho Russian disaster Is still un- , known here. It Is known, however, that tho casualties and losseu in guns nnd munitions mu-nitions of war arc unormouB Even ap- ' proximate figures aro 'Unobtainable as yet. It 1b expected that tho prisoners will numbor many thousands. Local cstlmatco of tho number taken vary from 20,000' to CO.000. Planned to Hold Line. It 13 not clear yot whether Gen. Kuro-patkln Kuro-patkln planned to stand and hold his lino north of the Hun river or retire, until ho found It was too late to accomplish his plan with tho forces at his command, owing ow-ing to his confidence In tho ability of tho Russian army to withstand assault. Ills action In heavily reinforcing Ins right hi tho neighborhood of Mukden Incllno innny to tho belief that ho planned to hold tho lino on tho Hun river and attempted to check flank attacks Giant Cordon of Japs. By a desperate onslaught tho Japaneso drovo a wedgo through tho lino of tho Hun Vlver nnd then pressing northward practically created a giant cordon about Mukden, bagging a tremendous force of the Russians by the operations completed yesterday. - Desperate fighting continued during yen-tcrday. yen-tcrday. tho Russians striving to brenk tho encircling barrier-Obstructing- Retreat It is now Known tliat as a result of tho operations yesterday, If the Japanese army succeeds In obstructing tho line of retreat between Fushun and Tie pass, but a small fraction of Kuropatkln's army will emerge from the disaster. |