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Show JAPS LOSE 1500 MEN Alleged Repulse of Flank-. Flank-. ing Force by Rcnnen-kampfs Rcnnen-kampfs Army. MUKDEN, Dec. . There Is a persistent per-sistent rumor that the force of Japanese Japan-ese sent to turn Gen. Rennenkampff'9 flank has been repulwd with great loss. The story Is not yet officially confirmed, but details are given with great circumstantiality. circum-stantiality. It is said that Gen. Ren-nenkampff, Ren-nenkampff, who -knew the movement was maturing- awaited the Japanese at the mouth of one of the captured passes, and that the Japanese turning force threw themselves1 unsuspecting into the ambuscade, where, after the fight, the Russians collected 500 Japanese corpses. It is" added that there are 1000 more Japanese corpses which It has been impossible im-possible to collect, owing to the fire of the Japanese. This does not include the Japanese loss 1ft wounded. The Russian Rus-sian loss, according to this account, was only thirty or forty men. |