Show RUSSIAN FORCES AR ARE TO Cause Is an Unexpected Order to Fall Back to tu Positions Nearer Liao Yang Vang ang JAPS ARE NOT 1101 FOLLOWING THEM THEMi i roff Gives GIva Account or of To Toward Toward ward Fortified of or w Liao Yang Aug AuA forces Sorce have been beon disappointed by h Iy hn flu In other unexpected withdrawn Th Ti whole division and the troops troop on the th position po have hn h In ordered to fall back to positions p lIlon Liao LIno Yang Just as hA n the soldiers r were ex exp p another r advance The fhe Japanese are aro not flat th the The advance froin the south Bouth In Ii I being pushed home homp Sound ot of from that direction an plainer platner than they the were wee yesterday The Th Chinese ot nt Lino Vans Yon nrc are bring bringIng Ing out woolen women anti and children bin they thy usually II U II do fl whon fl a II nest nese advance The sl ne had sustained sll n a hot hoi fight all alt of ot Aug 2 21 5 on the ho eastern front hut but held hell nit nil their pout poAt The understanding was that hut the nu would concentrate heavily In the thc morning rot for to I an Un of Jr the Japanese In that hilt t direction nud lb th surprise wm WI grenter greater therefore nl nt t tilt the order oilIer to tn retire 11 tI rl Tho The explanation Is III given the thu tenth corps corpe especially Hen Un Her ch l marins division on the thu extreme left lert wan lII confronted by IY h a n greatly superior force torce of Japanese I Although the Hus ItIl Bann fought bravely and held all IIII their positions they th y had lost mM an Immense Imm nM number r of Probably the retirement tutu the An n position po arose from the same une reason that hut the whole mountain divi division Ion sion as ite IS welt well eit as au tho the eastern troops troop re ru retired tired Ioni apparently not because of ot the tim pressure presure of ot the lime but hut fur for Men stra strategic i canons The mine had limul made n II thick and and bind bindIng Ing mild mud which almost paralyzed wagon transportation and made tho the movement of RUMS gUlls even oven morn moro Although tho thu Japanese witnessed th retirement of ot the eastern division they made no attempt to follow the being apparently exhausted by hY the tho duel of ot AUB Aug All 21 25 and nn the desperate and unsuccessful all alt day clay III at nt attack turk tack of Aus Aug AU 26 6 Today the thc found of at cannonading Is i heard plainer In III Liao Lino Ilia Yang It Is III more mors to the tho south than to the southeast The Japanese seem elm to he be advancing along the entire front particularly moving with a large force fUlce up III U the valley IlIe nf ot tho the Liao river Arrangements for a battle had been completed by hy II night nl ht time when the tho order to retire won wan given on all account ot or the situation to the east The order was WM received with disappointment by the t e troops Tho The retire retirement retirement retirement ment was vae made madl Inan iu atm orderly manner The Tho plain between antI and was covered COVel ed with Japanese troops who burned the time bridge and an shelled the railway station after the nu retirement ment The nu losses 10 e amount to The Japanese C are nrc advancing with great rapidity TO St Bt Petersburg Aug 28 The general staff hue has received tho the following tele telegram telegram gram from dated I Aug 27 Our advance guard guari nut advanced I troops on tha the southern front yesterday retired slowly toward the tha fortified peel position position tion Ion of at Rifle Nine lire was Wall general along llong the whole front The Japanese artillery cannonaded our positions at different points pointe Our guns gune poured a heavy lire re Into the columns of ot the Japanese as they advanced and Into their works and en entrenchments entrenchments entrenchments and eventually compelled them to U move their vast aRt camp from corn to the village of At 6 In the tle evening there therewa was Wae a l lull in the thc firing The hottest t fighting occurred on our left flank on the south front of ot which our losses losell amounted to During the night our advance guards guarde retired to the principal position Five divisions of ot the enemy took look the offensive against our lur south front Our troops repelled rep toward the southeast nit all attacks of the Japanese Re directed Against their front while our troops on the right Hank flunk taking the offensive toward evening 01 the th Japanese hack to Our loss boo lossen en eR on the southeast front were about Our detachment on time the east flaat yester yesterday day had a desperate dl fight against mon lon forrell forcen of ot the enemy On Orm the tho right flank our Infantry al od although although though unsupported by hy artillery ant although the Japanese were at nib all points superior numerically firmly and courageously ly tine tile attacks attack be JP began me megan gan Iran during the night by b the engagement engage engagement ment of the tho advanced pOll lions of or Foe gow ITOW and This affair culminated In sharp shar bayonet Minting fighting and some conic of our regimental received sword bayonet and and revolver wounds After Aftel desperate fighting on the nd nil of feKO and our troops retired on nn the mom main position supported by b artillery The Tha regiment on the left flank at defended an advanced position from I 1 In tn the until 4 In the afternoon repell repelling ing all alt the attacks at the tho point of the bayonet There Thero were four counter attack The rhe commander of ot the regiment Col Cob k wan sao wounded A turning by hy tire the en on engagement engagement against the left lank flank of the and the enfilading tire fire nf of If their batteries on l I heights forced the tile regiment to retire the retreat Itt ef In good Rood order guns were abandoned but they were vere broken and rendered use Ieee The Th like ilkI fan ann atice and their losses must have been Ileen very great groat greatA I IA A wounded wound Japanese e who ho was wu ai taken prisoner Irlon r escaped observation oh after his hbo wound mad had been dressed ant and killed himself by hy dashing his hili head bend against the otone Our troops captured a considerable number of ot rube rifle caps cape and and other othor ar or articles tides of equipment from fremin them the Japanese Our looses on this thie front ha nut been heln definitely ascertained but thy th exceed 1600 GOO killed bibbed or wounded Notwithstanding the long and and des desperate de lighting fighting and time the conferment fa fatigue tigue the tho spirit of mr our nor troops wax was AS ai a ani alert ni rt as no ever por anti and In tho the darkness of mf night with rain rota falling failing heavily and transforming time tho ground Into liquid mud mue They executed tine till movements headed by hy their bands bando In rOller coder On Aug 26 tIme the enemy enem had not nol as ao assumed any an definite fin lie offensive measures at any point along the Ihl whole hole front nd 1 our troops gradually moved mOed to 10 new positions olton At about 2 o 0 cloi dOl k it in the tha afternoon i I 1 It was wall discovered that the Japanese O were ire moving on oem by h WilY way of m IrI Lino Iao Yung Yang sling Aug IIA 29 2 Tho 11 army bus immia effected Its ito retirement Wab transport t lort find a artillery rt ii le I on Oil Liao 1110 in g Is III now In mm s Ulim awaiting ann tho ho advancing Japanese The rho progress pro re s of ut time the latter batter has bean been rapid nail and deter deler determined mined of or iro nm sacrifice In III the attak on the position tion t one Japanese ic t tab ion lost lo t all nil Its lii It The retirement n of ot the trails port lIrt of ot four Our corps Yesterday evening tho time plain while the artillery and troops in mm the It held off the Japanese afforded a I spectacle All along the trie extended lines there was wac an no Incessant roar of at batteries tho the HUB blue stuns working their thell guris with great and not retiring until tho the transport was WM In safety Oen Ho was among the killed bibbed |