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Show KUSSIAIAW-MMGMESllIKJ)EN:IN mmmm troops : ire stationed : :BUTSiE CITY; CRITICAL STAGE OVER Only Small Rear Guard Is Left at Yen Tai; Little Information In-formation Given Out From Japanese Sources. ' ' BirixETiir. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 7, B J35 p. m. The bulk of the Russian Man-churlan Man-churlan army la near Mukden, where, It now appears, Gen. Kuropatkln has been since Monday. Hi troops, it la understood, are not entering the city, but are taking up prepared positions around Mukden. While there J , is no specific Information on this point, the general staff believe that only. V-J small rear guard is in the neighborhood of Yen Tai. No further fighting 'of importance is expected south of Mukden. The. critical stage is regarded aa having passed, and the announcement was made this afternoon that the War office will no longer giro out two bulletins each day. movement against Kurokl w'as also measurably successful. While not underestimating the difficulties diffi-culties attending the task of the retirement retire-ment of the army northward and the continued threat from Oyama's right, the Novoe Vremya evidently considers that It . already has practically been successfully accomplished. - The Inalid Rubs, the army organ, also, continued to maintain that Oyama met a strategical defeat, but It expresses ex-presses the opinion that Oyama has not yet given up hope of flanking Kuropat-kln, Kuropat-kln, for which he is strengthening Ku-roki Ku-roki and diminishing the pressure against the Russian rear. The Novoe Vremya, reviewing the situation, sit-uation, declares emphatically that neither nei-ther mediation nor peace are now even thought ofr-"" DETAILS OF BATTLE i OF LI AO YANG NOT MADE ! PUBLIC II! JAPAN t TOKIO, Sept. 7.-8 p. m. The general staff has not yet made public any details de-tails of the battle of Liao Tang. The people are still celebrating the victory, but there is considerable speculation spec-ulation over the official silence regarding regard-ing Gen. Kuroki's movements since Sunday. It is reported that the Japanese, notwithstanding not-withstanding the ravages of fire, captured cap-tured vast accumulations of Russian stores and ammunition at Liao Yang. ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 7.-1:45 p. - m. From the latest advices received by the War office the authorities' now , believe that the danger of Field Mar-" Mar-" . ibal Oyama cutting off Gen. Kuropat-kln Kuropat-kln has practically passed. According , to the calculation the whole Russian fcrmy will reach Mukden tomorrow Oight. Kens. Kurokl and Kuropatkln ! have been marching northward along parallel lines, both armies being great- ly hampered' by heavy roads, the Japanese Jap-anese in a rough region and the Rus ilans along, a flat country, but embar- ; rassed by the high Chinese corn which ' prevented marching on the side of the siain roads. No difficulty is being ex-, ex-, ,- serienced at the Hun ftrer, r-few -miles , uth of Mukden, where bridges had been provided for crossing the stream, rhere has been constant fighting at the Russian rear and along the eastern ! wing, but so far as known by the War Office nothing- of Importance has oc- i curred since the retreat began. I - VL&j Not Stop at Mukden. The general staff naturally is retl-tent retl-tent about Kuropatkin'a plans, especially especial-ly whether he intends to stop at Muk-Sen. Muk-Sen. His decision probably will depend de-pend on. the Intentions of the Japanese. Contingent preparations will be made to evacuate Mukden and there Is con-tiderable con-tiderable evidence that Kuropatkln, if compelled to go north, will make a stand at Tiding, where the Russians wintered last year. Tiding is forty miles north of Mukden. At this point there Is a narrow defile, with the Liao river on one sfde and the mountains running almost down to the railroad on the other. Steps are being taken to guard against a possible attempt to cut the line there. Movements of Baltic Squadron. . The report that the tailing of the f;lc squadron had been postponed 1 November is officially denied as Is the report that several of the ships posing It developed defects. The squadron will sail for Llbau Sunday. , Exactly when it will sail thence is not known. . Although the report that Rear Admiral Ad-miral Ouktomsky. .In command of the Russian fleet at Port Arthur, is to be court-martialed Is untrue, the Admlr-ilty Admlr-ilty has decided to recall him, probably placing Capt. Wiren of the armored cruiser Bayan in command. It has been reaMxed all along that Ouktomsky lacked the requisites of a commander f a fleet under such difficulties, but swing to the Impossibility of sending a Bag officer to Port Arthur, he was al-' al-' lowed to remain in command. The Admiralty Ad-miralty Is greatly dissatisfied with his ictlon In returning to Port Arthur August Au-gust 10. in the face of the order of the ate Admiral Wlthoeft not to do so, and this led to the decision to supplant him. RUSSIA BELIEVES KUROPATKIN HAS UPSET FLAWS OF EHEMY ST. PETERSBURG, Sept. 7, 1 p. m. As the Russian newspapers begin to realize more fully the catastrophe which Sen. Kuropatkln avoided at Liao Tang tnd the skillful manner in which he upset up-set Field Marshal Oyama's plan to surround sur-round ihe Russian army, they take a more cheerful view of the result, and r , ire beginning to bestow great praise opon . Kuropatkln. It Is now apparent that Oyama's pur-i pur-i pose by pressing the Russian positions In front of Liao Tang was to hold Ku-i Ku-i ropatkrn's attention while the Japanese' right wing was thrust around the Rus-ttan Rus-ttan rear to block the Russian line of -f'treat. But Kuropatkln, at Its very " Jrreptlon, had his eyes upon this flank-movement flank-movement and countered by early ! withdrawing his main army to the right ! ' Dank of the Taltse river, changing his front to meet and hold Gen. Kurokl In check while Gen. Zaroubaleff's corps at J : Liao Tang crossed the bridges behind him, placing the river between him and I Ben. Oku. , ' Both the Russian ana Japanese ac-l ac-l counts seem to agree In saying that until un-til the withdrawal of the main Russian army from Liao Yang began, Kuropatkln Kuropat-kln had beaten voff the Japanese assaults as-saults In front of Liao Tang, and that the Russian commander-in-chiefs first : " V r: ' |