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Show FigUting tiegins Wednesday, and Result Is Yet in Doubt; Russian Anxiety Over Outcome Out-come of Encounter. ' ' . ' fcjIXETXN. . ".-' .. ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 20. A dispatch from liao. Yang, under date of August 25, aays the Japanese eastern forces began a forward movement . - August 24, eight companies going on the main Liao Tang road in the di- Erection of liandlansian. The Russian outposts held their position, the , light continuing yesterday. The result is not 'stated, but it is under- " stood the Second and Twelfth Japanese guards divisions are participating. gust 22, reporting' that the Japanese had at last been exhausted bar their attacks at-tacks and that the bombardment bad been suspended. Full details regarding the dispatch are not available, but it probably refers to the Chefoo dispatch of yesterday, announcing; the repulse of the Japanese with heavy losses In their attacks upon fort No. 1 and Fort Ets-shan. Ets-shan. . - -,l - . i . - i ST. PETERSBURG, Aug. 2. 2JS p. After four weeks' interval, the Jap-.Wse Jap-.Wse . have resumed their . advance laailnst Oen. Kuropatkln's ' positions. The opposing armies are in contact east :md south of Liao Tang and fighting has 'been in progress since Wednesday. The advices at band are too meager to en-' en-' able the Officials to form a correct opinion opin-ion as to whether it will result In a gen- era! engagement, but the extent and .character of the Japanese movement ' leads to that conclusion. 1 1 1 Japs Take Offensive. '. Since the rains ceased a week ago 'there have been continued intimationsl i that Gen. Kuropatkln was about to as-.' as-.' sums the offensive, but instead of that ' It was Jthe Japanese who attacked the j Russian . . commander's eastern ' and southern positions. '. , A Japanese column, 30,000 strong, was ' reported on Wednesday, to be marching 'up the right bank of the Lien-He-river, ! which would teem to indicate that three Japanese armies are co-operating in en-' en-' veloplng three sides of Liao' Tang. Attempt to Drive Wedge. j From the meager accounts received it appears that Gen. Kurokl selected Tant-1 Tant-1 lapudsy as he point for his attempt to drive the' wedge into Kuropatkln's outer ( defenses at Anplng and Llan-Dian-Slan, f which are . situated respectively ten j miles northwest and southwest of Tant-! Tant-! siapudzy. the latter being on the Lian- He river, eight miles above the - con-' con-' fluence of the Tait-tse river whence a .' mountain ridge runs weward. The fact that the Japanese are pre- paring pontoons at the Talt-tse river noted in these dispatches several days sgo. The capture of this bridge will be the first obstacle of the Japanese and doubtless will entail severe fighting, in ; which the Japanese probably- are count- lng on the superiority of their mountain ! guns.. If they are successful the Rus-; Rus-; sian position at Anplng and Lian-Dian- Elan will become precarious. '... Japanese Movements. I Their operations in Anplng are sup-j sup-j ported from Gutzlatzy, three miles higher high-er up the Llan-He. river and along the , Talt-tse river, as shown In the dispatch reporting that the Russian front south of the Tait-tse river was engaged and that Gen. Kurokl was ' -simultaneously moving on Llan-Dian-Slan, along -the high road, as reported from Liao Tang last night, and by the fact that another Japanese column is moving on Llan-Dlan-Slan along the south road' from Slallndzy, ten miles northeast of Hal-Cheng. Hal-Cheng. That Gen. Kuropatkln had foreseen these various moves' is shown by the manner in which the attack on Taneapu was met and by the repulse of the Japanese Jap-anese at Siaollndzy. The Baltle fleet, which sailed from Cronstadt last night on a trial cruise consisted of twenty warships. The Emperor leaves here tomorrow for i the Don to bid farewell to departing troops. . - . - ' ' I RUSSIANS HAVE NO DEFINITE NEWS OF THE i FIGHT AT THE FRONT 5 ' ' - j . ST PETERSBURG, Aug. 26, 4:35 p. m. The advices of the War office from I the front are very' meager. Ip fact, they are confined to a report dated Au- gust 24, giving an account of the ad-j ad-j vanes of the Japanese column of 80,000 men along the main road .toward Liao Tang which began at daybreak August ! 24. The Japanese drove in the Russian i outposts, and when the column reached I a point two miles west of Ltan-Dian- Sian the Japanese attempted to install batteries, but they met such a hot fire ! that they only succeeded in placing one I battery which was soon compelled to change Its position. At the moment of SfcMing the dispatch the Japanese had appended operations.. ' The War office has no news of the re-' re-' ported attack on Anshansban and the ' general staff is by no means satisfied Vthat the eastern movement of the Japanese is more than a feint. ; Gen. Ivanoff is In command of the late en. .Count Keller's corps .at Lian-Diaa-l .ian. - . ' The War office was much elated today at the reoeipt of a dispatch from Lieut-. Lieut-. Gen. StoesseL dated Port Arthur, Au- - ' - |