| Show BATTLE R RAGED ALL LL U y LO LONG G Russians Confident That Gen Kuropatkin Will Come Off OtT Victorious JAPANESE CHARGES REPULSED Conflict Has flits 1111 Not ot Been lJ en Decided When n nIt U It Is Is It H Will br be b Very cry Decisive lied sive St ft burg Aug u 31 55 a II m iii The Th great battle of o Mao Lian Yang early curly Tuesday Tue duy morning raged throughout tho day In III ten l but up to tn this th hour heul no 1113 official tho the two hlo tw o brief telegrams given out In tho the afternoon have hen been received by the tIc Will war I confidence JM 19 s expressed In n Oen ability to te meet tho Japa Jupa neo nwe ne e on fl ground of hid own on tho the city IH IK hungrily nt Ing InK further of at tim tho progress of ef the Iho fight The rho forces engaged In btttle can cnn only ho bo estimated here hore hut they are arc lo to number about n men man Oen IH Is known to IC have MX Ix army n my corps cor hr H of cavalry In which great gr confidence Is I rl o I up the Ihl thenus nus u lan total to Ii about the tho name num number ber br as nM the Japanese How tho armies compare with to IB I not 1101 known though throughout the hip lIr ar tho th have great ice for or thin arm and alid Ilent greut in Its itA use lIe 15 from r the th front credIt Iho tho t 1 aptt fl with VI t hi having ha tI ug about t tI i 00 gun ninny many mountain batter Ir and It Is IH known 1 fl that they recently hipped 2 24 21 heavy guns to Kour of these Ihl th uns have been leen men mentioned In thieve theo aH UK being In III Inart art Ion lien Uen In 10 addition to hll lit litfield Held field has hIlA a I number of very ll heavy at nt Important po positions at Mao Lien Yang Vang where the th Rill Hug plans have havo been beon fortifying for forham home ham I time The Tho ho claim chum to trl have two Held batteries dur during ing lag Ing the two Iwo days dayt accounts admit tho the loss logs of ot only six lx gulls It Is 18 stated that n a Japanese battery was captured south of nf during the preliminary lighting and lind that several F Japanese guns have been haon destroyed since then of oC the tho situation hall ban developed d so far nr Official news neWN from toni the front that theta theio wan desper desperate ate lighting fighting on en tho tIm southern center r while wh I I from Information from Crom other It that tho the e are endeavoring to tn turn th Russian right from tho thin neighborhood of nr tho the junction of the tho anti and rh I err erf rF Tho The fighting on the th link appears to have hava approached within three miles of Mao Lint Yang The news new from Crom Port Part Arthur up to Aup Aug Au 26 2 was lis The rho account of the th battleship Sevastopol having hoIng gone gene out on Aug AU 23 3 to 10 th I Japanese In bay boy does lIoan not men mn mention tion tien that vessel I al striking a 1 mIne mIneA A dispatch from Vladivostok men mn mentions tho the presence there of ot den OEn lien Ken who recently loft the hoi hail hospital pital at Lino Yang on nn Nick Hick leave IN SAP JAr ATTACK London Aug Au 31 A dispatch from toni Lla Lillo Yang lang to a MOWS agency dated Aug 30 says The Japanese artillery Ire fire only at ut 8 this thIn evening Tho The casualties havo have not net yet al boon bean ascer ascertained Tho The Third repulsed a Japanese o assault R the Iho Japanese being hurled hack back by 11 bayonet charges first by hy th and A 1111 then than by hy the which re received and repulsed the tha enemy no Ito less Ic s than six ix times Two Japanese e companies which sue suc succeeded ce ded In occupying a II nU position were vere mistaken for anti and anal anni annihilated hunted by Japanese artillery tire lire At 4 In Iii the tho afternoon the Jap Jup Japanese anese at d their lire on oil a Il HUll hits Blau Kin It soot ti t a h u nent and n ml also a iso tried to 10 outflank the detachment front from the tho right tho the protection of oC bA One Cup company after another WAH as no tin noticed III running If 11 to tho thin u outward In I a an III it t attempt ii t I lit t to out tin uk tho t he positions t lotus hut hul II a regiment und n a I battery ro to advance and succeed succeeded ed 11 In forcing the enemy to 10 retreat In disorder evacuating portions 1 they the pro pre hid There Thero hits has been an nil expendi expenditure ture Litre of af ammunition l gout the theda theIa da Ia day especially on the front Crent against trainst lI the tho Third corps It II IH J i that the tha loess BI so f far have not nol hen been very MY heavy heay ex ox except axI I pt to 10 the itt regiments which bayonet hauges All the Ihl men serving ono one gun one onA wore vere killed by hy Tho The survivor 01 who was bully hadl heroically brought hla his hisgun gun to 10 headquarters and even then than ro rn fund fUH to quit null his place until the gen gout general oral eral ra I per ordered him Into the hO I IA A more energetic attack Is expected tomorrow It that Gen Cen force did not lint participate In engagement The rh fh morale of the troops Is excellent OK Ol CANNON Line Una Yang Aug Au 1 30 A Russian cor rOI or rr of the th Associated Press supplies the till following The historical moment nl has hAil arrived and tho the battle hottle of ef llao blan Yang Yong IH III In pro proa ress te K KIt It wits was not 6 this lila morning when ihie tim tho first gun tun was vlis llred hut hilt noon afterward II hundreds of ot cannon iver thundering along our southern and ca torn fronts The Tho center of our position Is III i local t fd NI ru near the tho famous tower tover of Yung Yun about lIoen miles to the southeast Tho rite lighting fighting there thelo wan sas of o the most desper desperate de er ate ut character chit racier hut hull Is now lion going on Ott near nearer er Cl at nl tho ho Hanks flanks Tho of o shells Is III distinctly and und from rem this the city It Is 18 easy call to ee cc t the th shells bursting Heavy 11 gillis were brought Into ac III action lion tion by buy h both hoth sides siles R today HIV anil their dull dulli i oar lent was taa 1111 discernible shove the detonation of o Held fIeld and alit guns gum Fun Tho are using ullin big hiI old oid nance itatA which Is 18 In iii position In the moot Innel ring or of the Llao Ilao Yang forts Thin The noisy Chinese population ha hn has suddenly become quiet Th main street of or Mao 1151 Yang always tho tim scene ceno of ot the Ih busiest anti and re 11 resoundIng soundIng with tho the sound of nr thousands of or shrill voices front from sunrise to 10 sunset ID III now non ns nA silent HR SIR If It It were night The TIie Inhabitants I nta 1110 ii lC watching ra t citing the lie I distant battle baltic from tho the housetops and towers tOI rM or are wandering gloom gloomily gloomily ily II In the tho th streets Ve WI e lure aro asking ourselves It If the tide IIda of or battle Is going to swamp tho city lIt what Is IH to tn become of or the houses and anti other property I 1 am nm going to the tho southern front fron Till HIlLI TREMBLED TIU St Petersburg Aug All 31 A dispatch to In the Official MI Mes nger from front Llao Lillo Yang under date of oC AttIc Aug 30 O says All lI 11 around Llao tho the hills are arc trembling today front from rom the tho artillery lire fire which has haK not ceased for or a u mo nio moment ment Llao Yang has hu become bacome the tha cell ceil ter of o a it 1 terrific sanguinary engage went lint but we wo are prepared for or It lies Hos Hospital pital trains are In readiness and other are Arc bringing In reserves storM stor and forage together with artillery and antI Illo II ammunition haW hattie seems semis to be bC devoted by h the tM Japanese to I an all artillery fight with the thin object of oC searching out our r Ions The Japanese advance has continued since Aug Au 24 Tester Yester Yesterday day tin da It lei lee to 10 a n number of or brilliant ac nl actions as All the drew drel In III upon thel defences but hut these actions were nothing 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