Show RUSSIAN U i RETREAT tT T TI I W b ORDER Ot Long Iong Trains of Wagons Arc Slowly Passing issIng Mukden ROADS ARE IH IU AWFUL STATE Sodden br by Soaking Haiti naira ham Storms of or Yesterday anti and Today Progress is Slow 5 JAPS UPS ARE WORRYING FLANKS little Drown IIron Men Are Keeping n Up a Continuous l oar Guard Juard Action With Mth the H li H l l i it l a it continuous rear t 1 II I action with witti the 1 who hang hant tu to hit III thanks kin continues continue to 10 fall Call Isak over oer 1 I toads made sodden by two Iwo tiny days u ur j 1 heavy roll The heads head of oC hit him r 1 long lOri traInS have I through Mukden and con can 1 northward It U i is rV i u ut t that In unite spite of or the 14 bad and andI 1 I persistent shacks attacks on the Humlan Russian t x rear tine the retreat is H orderly Io Do Doi I i tallu of ot the tho lighting ond nd the ha ex cx exact ext i ii t i act Olt position of oC the opposing oj 1 armies arm are lacking Tho rho nUl 1 1 t 1 clan general staff lafr while Admit Admitting I 1 ting it has hal received no ito ad aul advices r vices vice since last haut evening denle T t the thi report that thai rear rearguard rearguard guard has hall been annihilated 1 1 From Krom l rom Tokio cornea comes the f report that hat the bulk of ot the Itus u I lan forces Is I still at Venial rental F Whether Wh or not lOt will u u ux x mocks make another stand tand at Mukden I l I is not lOt indented led In Iii nil Hd 11 k vice In Jn Mi Mt 11 Petersburg It II U is j ji argued that hut t the he I fact that his hll commissary trains passed on 1 through Mukden does not Indicate j that Ihal the Russian HUllian I proposes to tu evacuate the Ih city Ity I without a struggle but Wl only that I they are taking Ut up 4 U WeIr their proper lImper I i positions In iii the rear II H ill lI HH Mukden Sept 0 G t p re rc retreat treat of or Gen Clan anti l Is III be IMI being I brig ing III carried out in good order despite the Ih lie terrible condition of or time the roads r ron ren n dered sodden n by bJ the tue reins rains which h fell rell yesterday and today which nitre mire the tine lumbering guns grins and heavy transport port trains train Long IAnI lines of at I wagons wagon aon drawn dra in II by II straining mules hor e smith and even bullocks are AN their way north over oven the soaking cut cutup up lip main maui road from Venial Behind them come ome lon Ion long trains of or artillery and lack of or them still army Irm The Japanese e are banging on Kuropat kins kin flanks nank keeping the Russians Russian en Ill engaged In a continuous roar near guard no cc notion 11 lion tion The progress of the retreating tin army has hall heeD been slow IIO owing oln to the net city of oC first getting tUn through the tine tag bal baggage gage Bane and guns Run but the heads head of or the trains already have passed hauled through Mukden and are contin continuing their way may towards the north The main Japanese army la is marching up along Ion the roads eastward It war I of oC time the Ru Russian nulan lines inca of ot retreat treat which COllve at Mukden Another Japanese force is I also alia heading head In for Mukden from th the westward tard coming from the direction a athe If f the LIsa Llao river Marshal Mabal O ma seems 1111 to be making a race mace tor for Mukden He lit evid evidently h bee great t In numbers In mu artillery a Ai Al this dispatch was Wat tied led the theo corres carte correspondent of ot the Ar Associated Press Pr could hell hear the tIne booming of nt the Japanese can cannon cannon non nOD which are re in play pia II It miles mile flom Mukden The Th skies me are black and the air U is tiding stifling with the sense cense of ot suffocation which is ii I felt here before a R storm breaks break strange harmony between the ele tie elements ments menti and the menacing attitude of or the contend contending armies FURTHER DISASTER DENIED Bt St Sept Sent 6 S p m The Associated Press is II authorized authorised In Inthe Inthe inthe the name of the Russian general staff Ian to IU the report Ii wee was wa In III circulation lation here heru last lo night of ot the annihilation thus Hon of len den r ar guard According to UI the latest latt advices ell of oC the staff no nun Russian force fOIte WM wee cut off ocr and It ItIn ItI Itis In is I beloved believed that thac there thre Is II little danger danler lit If the th Japanese Intercepting Kuropat Kuropatkin kin below Io Mukden The Information here Is I that the Japanese force at ut does not exceed two IWO division divisions nt ut the most mOlt It Is ii I added l Ih t the stuff lid has haa ha not yet received n nwe s toni the front under today date nip |