Show JAPS CAPTURE FORTY believed to hav losi nearly half his army the latest dispatches would indicate that while general Kuropat Mn haa ap parent ly succeeded in saving more ol 01 bis artillery than seemed possible his losses in men ammunition and corn missa riat supplies in the battle ol 01 mukden are far greater than earlier reports indicated and even that por alon of his army which be succeeded in extricating from their positions around mukden is still in serious danger while a small portion of kuropat kin army has reached tie pass the greater part of those who escaped from the battle of mukden are still struggling onward being at last ac counts between twelve and sixteen miles from their goal with the japan esa flushed with victory and rein forced by fresh men harassing them it is more likely that will fall right back to harbin with what he can save and there wait tor the reinforcements that st petersburg has already promised him A possible obstacle to the plan is general kawa baura raura s army which has not yet been lo 10 eted and which may also be head ng for the northern capital general kuropatkin admits that 1190 officers and men are not responding to calls this Is rather vague it may or may not include the thousands of wounded who have been sent north and again it may not in elude the losses suffered by the third army with which the commander in chief was not in communication tor some time the figures given by the japanese war office appear more rea conable namely 40 prisoners 26 BOO left dead on the field and killed or wounded the latter figure of course including the dead found by the japanese the russian losses therefore total more than men or more than one third of the whole army the fact that te japanese re port the capture of only sixty guns in that kuropatkin at the last moment succeeded la sending a consider able portion of his artillery northward on the railway the japanese losses were reported as not including the army which pushed north between mukden and fushun |