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Show i - AWFDL SLAUGHTER ' IN FINAL EFFORT TO CAPTURE MUKDEN . BSSBSBBBBSSSSSSSJBISBSi MUKDEN, March 10, 10 a. nv The Japanese last night pushed up from the south across the abandoned plain between be-tween the Shakhe and Hun rivers and are, as this, dispatch Is filed, about five miles south of ths latter and frorn the Hun. opposite Machlapu. and northward north-ward Japanese batteries are pouring In a ceaseless fire. The Japanese succeeded in emplaclng siege guns and mortars at Dlushantun, about six miles west of this city, when they opened fire before dawiu Dlushantun was the scene yesterday of the bloodiest and - most desperate fighting of all this terrible battle. Its possession . wss vital to the Japanese, who stormed It again and again. The Russians dislodged them, but the Japanese Japa-nese finally recaptured the village after much hand-to-hand fighting. .Eye witnesses say the dead scsttered In the streets, court yards and houses have been unburled four days.. Rifles and other arms lie about wrenched and twisted. Hand grenades were thrown by the Japanese and the garrison was subjected sub-jected to the concentrated fire of as many as a bundled guns. Once Dlushantun Dlu-shantun In their hands the Japanese can train guns on Mukden railroad station sta-tion and it has been held at frightful cost: The Japanese are also concentrating their efforts about seven miles north of Mukden and about five miles west of the railroad, with the object of breaking break-ing through .and cutting off the surrounding sur-rounding troops below. A. blinding duststorm has been raging since daylight and the day promises to witness a gruesome encounter, the result re-sult of which no one here can foresee. , |