Emery County Progress | 1904-09-10 | Page 2 | Kuropatkin is Silent

kuropatkin IS SILENT I 1 st petersburg has had no wont from russian general the dearth of immediate press and official dispatches from the present actual seat of war of the tar struggle continues it is admitted aby the russian war office that no telegrams whatever were received from general kuropatkin bearing tuesday s date the last message to the cm geror from the general being dated september 5 and briefly telling that the army was advancing northward that it had extricated itself from a dangerous position that there wa constant cannonading of the o 0 guard and that the losses on that day were about the russian forces arc pushing on to mukden greatly impeded by heavy roads and floods conducting an order ly retreat and fo lowed step by step by the japanese details of the fight ing and of the exact position ot the opposing armies are lac ting the report that kuropatkin a rear guard has been annihilated and that the russian forces are in danger of being surrounded Is denied by the russian general staff the russian war office Is entirely confident that the retreat Is slowly but sure y being ef fectea