Show 17 1 OW ty 4 JAPS FORCED TO ro RETREAT plunking column encounter encounters cos co 41 acks and get wont worst of argument Oi Following Fol loving on the heels of the newa news olL oletho tho disasters to the japanese fleet G uie general staff at st petersburg As haa received official advices of the defeat of 0 the Ja japanese force which was R s marching north northward from feng want cheng chong for or the purpose of executing flank move ant nt on mukden details ot of the dispatch dic patch will hot be made public until it has been passed m n by the war commission but enough haa has beel communicated to make it clear that in order to save themselves from destruction the japanese were compelled to retreat toward feng wang deng since general gent T al kuroki sent ft a column northward ja ts gain the road leading directly west from mukden general kuropatkin has kept it under tinder the closest surveillance awaiting the moment when it should be so distant from the main Japa neso army as to prevent its easy reinforcement in observing this plan the russians withdrew and the japanese not arding fir ding a strong force of the enemy before them continued to advance binen the time for action came general kuropatkin let general loose from leash 1 general kampS had bad under his command only a few regiments but they were the flower of the coa cos eack sack cavalry oa on may is 18 ho he fell on pe the enemy whose whoso number has not yet been rei repealed baled with such vigor as to compall tho the retirement twelve milea miles toward the base near it Is presumed to have revived caved reinforcements from general kuroki who must immediately ave veen been advised of the awit ward predicament |