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Show BATTLE IN PROSPECT. Armies of Oyama and Kuropatkin Likely to Clash in Great Fight. GEN. OKU'S HEADQUARTERS, Jan. 27, noon, via Tientsin, Fob, 1, (Delayed In trunamlsalon.) After three months' Inaction there Is now a prospect, pros-pect, that t,he armle3 of Gen. Kuropatkin Kuropat-kin and Flold Marshal Oyama will soon Join In what likely will prove the greatest great-est battle of the war. For some days past the Russians have boon quietly massing troops on Gen, Oku'H left, evidently evi-dently preparatory to an attempt at a turning movement. For three days past a heavy artillery Are has been kept up by the Russians on Gen. Oku's left, running toduy toward to-ward Uie centor. The Japanese have not replied to tho cannonade, awaiting nn attack by tlio Russians, who have been heavily reinforced. It is believed now that they have numerous divisions along the Shakho river. Tho Japanese foroe has also been increased, and everything now seems ready for the greatest conflict yet recorded in tho history his-tory of tho present war. The move on the part of the Russians seems to Indicate a desire to strike sobn, In a desperato attempt to avenge the fa) of Port Arthur, Probably tho revolutionary rev-olutionary outbreak In Russia has determined de-termined Con. Kuropatkin to mako a desperate effort to gain a victory before be-fore the outbreak In Russia becomes known to the aruiy. Thc utter failure of tho recent cavalry cav-alry raid by the Russians on the railroad rail-road shows the futility of further attempts at-tempts of the kind. "With the ground so solidly frozen troops pn. the advance Ypiiid have great dHYlcujty in Intrenching: Intrench-ing: to secure the slightest chver. Tho advantage of thc situation would be entirely pn the pde qf the army on tho defensive. With the thermometer at zero, and the ground cqvered with snow, a battle When fought- would he qver a gren-t plain where the south sun can be of no advantage to either side. |