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Show ' -' ' - , ' -- - ' - . " D EN: BEFORE RUSSIANS; :. BOPJING : " ; i : HEIR , STORES; BATTLERS RESUMED Japs Concentrating for Stand Before Sakharoffs Army; Russian Baltic Fleet Has Sailed for the North. ; '.-,'-""-.- : ' ; BTjXXiUTIN. f mJXDEJT, Oct 19, 5 a. .m. Yesterday passed off quietly. No firing yn heard at night.. Ths Japfanes appemr to be slowly falling' back. A g-Jare seen above their encampment may indicate that they are burning : their stores prior to withdrawal. This morning broke chilly but clear. As soon as the roads are drier a resumption of the battle is probable, as the C Rnsrians everywhere are in close touch with the Japanese. ' . . BUXXETUT. : ST PETERSBURG, Oct. 19. Gen. Sakharoff telegraphs at midday, today to-day tfrt the Japanese are concentrating at X4n-hinpu, west of the rail-, rail-, road. A detachment of Russian cavalry, reconnoitering last night in the vicinity of Shakhe, captured two Japanese guns with no losses to them-selves. them-selves. BTJTXEXLN. ; PAKKEBBJUJ," Denmark, Oct. 1 9. The remainder of the Baltic Russian Rus-sian fleet sailed this morning for the north. has been the most severe yet fought on the plains, where the Russian forces consisted of the-First army corps and the Fifth and Sixth Siberian corps. The only defenses were Infantry 'trenches, which were hastily made. OY AM A REPORTS 1 RUSSIANS ARE GRADUALLY ; DECREASING FORCES I l6,T)6n, Oct. 19.-5:30 p. m. A dispatch dis-patch to the Japanese legation from Toklo today says: "Field Marshal Oyaraa reports that on Tuesday the enemy seemed gradually decreasing his force In the direction of the Right army, only small detachments Continuing actKity. The enemy beaten at Bensihu Is retreating northeastwards. ' "In the direction of the Central army the enemy last night made assaults, but they were repulsed and today there have been only occasional exchanges of cannonades. can-nonades. "In front of the Left army the enemy is occasionally firing." ST. PETER S BURG, Oct . 19. The Emperor has received from Gen. Kuro- - T3.tYlr -tj: '?1 oCkK-- J "-the, '.'r Y'-: '- V ' rDur.'-iT 'he j. Vf Japanese at-' at-' Atked our ad vajWei- positions at Lone ' e hilj. but 4heyXwere repulsed. No r , orts have been received of any other i.gagements. Everything was quiet at all our portions up to 10 o'clock this morning. Rain fell all night and the roads have been greatly damaged." RUSSIA SOBERS UP AFTER FIRST FLUSH OF : . PARTIAL VICTORY ST. PETERSBURG, Oct. 19.-1:43 p. m. The flush of enthusiasm, yesterday evening over the capture of Lone Tree hill and Shakhe, the repulse of the at-. at-. tacks of the Japanese left and the hard drubbing given Gen. Tamada, with the capture of fourteen additional guns, has glv&q way this morning to a calmer and mot J sober appraisement of these partial par-tial Vuccesses. . . 1 There Is no official confirmation of the report that Gen. Kuropatkln has resumed re-sumed a genuine offensive. Rather the general Japanese offensive f has exhausted ex-hausted ltselfHd that the position of the armies is now a sort of deadlock, with the country rendered so sodden by the heavy rain as to compel a tempo-; tempo-; rary suspension of general operations. A complete veil hides the movements east but both Kuropatkln's and Sakha-roflTs Sakha-roflTs reports say there were no collisions colli-sions on that portion of the battleground Monday or Tuesday. Field Marshal Oyam evidently con-' con-' elders that Lone Tree hill, from which Kuropatkln could pivot a turning movement move-ment against his left, to be of vital importance im-portance as both Sunday and Monday nights, the latter during a terrific storm, made desperate efforts to recapture It accompanying the assaults with demonstrative demon-strative attacks against other points. But all the efforts failed. Neither Kuropatkln Ku-ropatkln nor Sakharoff, in - the dispatches dis-patches given out this morning, send details de-tails of the defeat of Tamada's column and the capture of the Japanese guns. Pitiful pictures are painted by the war correspondents of the shelterless bivouacking in the cold rain, the roads converted Into jquagmrres . and the streams flooded. The military critics are not yet satis-fled satis-fled that Oyama Is ready to relinquish the offensive, expressing the opinion .that he may still try to break through 'the Russian .center in order to compel Kuropatkln to retire from the line of the Hun river, unless, as they believe, he has become convinced ' that the superiority su-periority of the Russian numbers and reserves makes his withdrawal to the line of the Taltse river advisable. - JAPANESE REPORT1 BATTLE-WAS MOST SEVERE FOUGHT ON PLAINS WITH GEN. OKU'S LEFT ARMY AT THE FRONT, tct. 17, 3 p. m., via Fnsan, Oct 19. The Japanese advance ir Jen miles south of Mukden. The Russians hive , built heavy defenses' two miles south of the Hun river, where they are expected to make a stand. There are no natural defenses at that point ' w. r .. nrrt flt 1 ft hr"t ' |