Show mm 0 stain FEARFUL SLAUGHTER IN BATTLE NEAR MUKDEN russians on the run although japan ese lost men while the russian loss Is general kuropatkin in a telegram which arrived in st petersburg ug r at 7 0 clock saturday evening sai said 1 japanese had broken through the rus left wing and that it was cut off from the remainder of the army at 10 clock came another dispatch I 1 from general kuropatkin which read 6 the japanese are marching on muk den don my position Is extremely dangerous in government circles in st peters burg there Is a conviction that gen eral kuropatkin has been fully beaten that part of his army has been dispersed and that the railroad north of mukden will probably be cut the battle raging at the front has assumed enormous proportions al ready correspondents place the rus elan losses at 30 men and those of the japanese at 40 on thursday field marshal oyama shifted the weight to his left seeking to envelop the russian right eight miles southwest of mukden in the hand to hand fighting which followed and continued tor for tour four hours the loss on both sides was enormous but the most serious news is the report that the japanese attacking col eol dmn at sla sin min tin about thirty miles west of mukden has divided part of it moving straight east to roll up the russian right wing while the other Is making forced marches north with the evident purpose of cutting the russian line of communication with tie pass and closing the line of retreat should the operations prove successful the russian army might be surrounded general kuropatkin says that the russians have been compelled to evacuate their position at pass |