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Show iUSSIMS ?u5PAE IS KAIE SIAiB AT IIS ?ASS; JAFABJSB KM! SOT u 1DKBEN; MY LITTLE ACTIVITY .Gen. Stoessel Reports Repulse Re-pulse of Attack at Port Arthur; Ar-thur; Japs Accused of Vio-: Vio-: lation of Red Cross Flag. bulletin. . T0K20, Sept. 14, 3 p. m. Field Marshal Oyama confirms the reports V that a considerable- force of Russians remain south of the Hun river, and ' ' says the Russians are fortifying the heights on both sides of the Llao ' river at Tie pass. ' . t . , , ' BULLETUT, ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 14. Gen. Kuropatkin, telegraphing yester-i yester-i day, says 3000 Japanese are bivouacking at Bentslputze, and that the bulk i of the Japanese forces is south of the Ten Tal branch railroad. The Japa-; Japa-; nese, he adds, are not advancing. BULLETIN. BERLIN, Sept 14, 5:39 p. m. Col. Oaedke, the war correspondent of the Tageblatt, telegraphing to his paper from Tie pass this (Wednesday) (Wednes-day) morning, says: "The Russian army is disposed south of this point The Japanese hare advanced only about six miles north of Llao Yang. tlons, near No. 1 fort and Udiai mountain. moun-tain. Their attack .was everywhere repulsed. re-pulsed. Our losses - were small-Lthree men killed and two officers and ninety-eight ninety-eight men wounded. The wounded were brought in and are being carefully care-fully tended.- "A number of Japanese corpses would have been picked up by us, but the enemy prevented us from so doing by opening fire on men who had been sent out under the- Red Cross flag." ' Another dispatch from Gen. Stoessel to the Emperor, dated . September 2, says: "On the night of September 1 the enemy ene-my attacked Visokaya and Dlinnaya mountains and the neighboring fortifications, fortifi-cations, opening simultaneously an artillery ar-tillery fire on the forts and mountains. The leading files of the enemy, with the Japanese columns leading them, were discovered in good time and our batteries bat-teries opened on them. The leading files finally encountered some automatic auto-matic mines, and many of the enemy were blown into the air. The attack was repulsed in an hour. Our losses were inconsiderable one officer and seven men wounded." : Russian Losses. ' ST. PETERSBURG. Sept. 14. Gen. Kuropatkin Ku-ropatkin estimates the Russian losses from August 28 to September 5 at 4000 killed and 12,000 wounded. Field Marshal Oyama reports to Toklo -that a considerable Russian force re-; mains south of he Hun river, while. Gen. Kuropatkin today telegraphed to St. Petersburg that the bulk of the . Japanese force Is still south of the Yen Tal branch railroad. Oyama also says that the Russians are fortifying the heights on both sides of the Llao river at Tie pass. Beyond this today's dis-, dis-, ,. . , pate bea .from. the eatf war relate to-detalls to-detalls of previous fighting and no light Is thrown upon the all absorbing ques- tlon of where the next engagement in force will occur. Gen. Kuropatkln's estimate of his ' losses in the fighting around Llao Tang are far under the first reports. He re. ' - ports from August 28 to September 6 he lost 4000 killed and 12,000 wounded. Marshal Mar-shal Oyama places the total of Japanese casualties at 17,600. making the total for both armies in round numbers 33,600. ' Accepting these figures as correct the battle of Liao Yang in hilled and wounded falls much lower in the scale of the world's great battles. CHEFOO. Sept 14, 4 p. m. A commu-' commu-' nication has been received by the Rue- j ) elan Consul here from Gen. Balashoff, t chief of the Red Cross at Port Arthur, requesting that the same be made public. pub-lic. ' ' I The General charges the Japanese with gross violation of the Red Cross-He Cross-He says on Japanese dead have been' ' found notes, written In Russian, requesting re-questing that their bodies be burled, but when Russian burial parties attempted to fulfill these requests they were fired on. Such instances. Gen. Balashoff xvddfli are numerous and the Russians fcre now afraid to trust to the Red Cross flag. He states that the Japanese , also protect movements of their troops by the unlawful use of the Red Cross flag. - . . ' . The Russians at Chefoo are endeavor-- endeavor-- lng to purchase a wireless telegraph 'outfit at Manila, presumably to replace the one here which has been useless for some time. ( |