Show FIGHTING TI G LINt LINE LINtt NEARING t RI G Japanese Arc Advancing In Three Columns nud Arc Are Now North of Slug n and aud Feng an ang Cheng TO TURN RUSSIAN RUSSIA POSITION Many Mall Ma ii emits Fought lit but No 0 hc Action has lias Vet et ct Taken Place Mukden im Monday light In lit line Is steadily Mukden Viceroy headquarters still remain Little reliable Information tion cnn can be obtained by the Iho newspaper correspondents who ore to proceed to 10 the scene Frono of If operations afield Information I l a until advices ad mile aie Font to t I Petersburg It H HIs ItIs I Is now known however that the tho Japa I Inese nose nese ore almost dimmest within striking lit of or the Iho and that the forces protecting Mao 1111 Yang are uro stretch Ing Ilig Im eastward finn the thu railroad along the Mao Tien riem mountain range The Japanese are lIte advancing In thrum three columns and aro 1110 now north of or and und Feng Wang Cheng Two columns arc are reported to be bo working worl hC further to tu time tho with the object of at turn turnIng urn Ing the position and advancing upon Ulon Mukden Numerous small email engagements have havo been beau fought but no decisive action has hns taken place Port Arthur Is II now com coin completely completely Isolated by tho the Japanese expedition tion at The Japanese are arc now operating In lii a 11 rugged country welt well suited to the tho th HUH lus Flan but bul north of ot Llao Yang to 10 Mukden tho the country In is h a Hat plain Intersected by rivers Tho rho weather veather u Il has been h on hot and dry dr but tho the rain which has haH fallen In tho the past two days has minnie mado tho the roads almost Im Irn passable for or vehicles and when wham tho time rainy season Benson begins at nt the first of or the plain will ill be converted Into a IL HOrnSB This condition will probably result In the Iho practical suspension ot of operations Mukden Is III now the tho receiving center for the tho wounded from the various en engagements south louth of at the this Mao Ino Tien mountains A hospital has hall been es established established in the tho Lama temple In tho time outskirts of ot time the town and a field hospi hospital tal tim has hau been located In a wood near neat tho time military camp around the tho station A feature of ot the situation Is the demeanor of ot the Chinese bit which may bo ho said to be a n t tel r of ot the tho military weather A close elos observer of ot the expressions and general attitude of the th ChInese can ran tell how tho the fighting a hundred miles away Is II turn turnIng lag Ing They rimey have hae rapid and mysterious channels of at Information through which the result of or tho the battle of ot Feng Wang Cheng spread could be suspected from rm the time outward manner of ot the Chi micRo neso before tho the made u me known hero here Time The cutting off of at Port Pan Arthur Is la another Instance III In point The Tho newspaper correspondents aro are roost most courteously treated by Col Co Poe Pac the officer whom Viceroy appointed to attend them but they me are chafing under tho tIme restrictions ro Im Imposed posed here which prevent them tool from seeing anything of ot tho time fighting Oen Cen Is evidently unwilling thai tham the foreign correspondent ent shall witness l the present phase of nt operations opera lions though he may mo accept them In the tho Indefinite future when hn the are arc able to tomake tomako make mako IL a sweeping advance EVACUATED May 1 16 night In con Uon of ot recent Associated ted Press dispatches dl time the evacuation of at this timie city line has been completed Nothing remains but destruction of at the th gunboat which Is expected will take tako piers early In the morning Tho rho Th Russian troops marched out alii In perfect order artier Gen Gao I leaving with the last regiment The As Associated 8 ted Press correspondent has re received reo c exclusive Information from tram time tho highest authority that tho time Japanese advance will bo be resisted nt at Hal Cheng whence the forces will fall fail fallback III back upon Lino Llao Yang where they will make determined stand with a fight fighting ing log tr Ii h there thore available of ot men If It defeated no stop will bo ho made nt at Mukden but the tho retirement will vill be con to a 0 town t the tho heM heMor nr or for or native craft on the tho thoMao tit Mao Ilao river miles north ot of Now At time the tI some namo time the Cossack regiments will ho bo employed In tho the rear of or the time Japanese army of or the time tho the troops and Interfering with Its communications It Is It not riot be boo that the tho th Japanese will move Into hun the tIme Interior until they have thoroughly established their here her repenting their movement at The fun Russians admit the th advance of or the th Ih e army anny to a 11 point within 15 13 5 lolle ot of Hal 1111 Cheng many loftily of ot their wounded entering there The TIme nearest expected I before b toro the Ih reach will bo be boat bon beat at n t hut bit It will not amount to much This city Is III now guarded by hy Chinese polIce and everything In it T X 1 i force ut at Kal Chuu Is reported trong |