Show BIG BATTLE ealing HALF MILLION MEN ENGAGED AROUND leao YANG expected that engagement will be a decisive one and that it will last for several days the heaviest battle of the war Is raging around llao yang following the rear guard which kuropatkin has fought in his retirement from ahping and An he has either elected or been forced to give battle and Is meeting the attack of the combined armies of kuroki godau and oku dispatches from the battlefield show that at dawn tuesday the japanese opened a terrific artillery fire directed mainly against the russian center and right this rain of shells was con linued throughout the day until 9 clock in the evening A dispatch from llao yang at 6 49 tuesday evening showed that the battle was increasing in intensity the japanese pressing forward until at one point their advance developed into a hand to hand fight the Kus repell ing them with the bayonet so far reports do not indicate the trend of the action but it Is freely pre dieted that the engagement will be a decisive one and that it will last for several days the combined forces en are estimated at between and of all arms |