Show SLAUGHTER BLOODIEST BATTLE OF RUSSIAN JAPANESE WAR NOW RAGING after six days of desperate fighting the loss of the russians is placed at from 30 to 40 men at ohp nf ohp seventh conseco the day of fighting between mukden and llao yang the battle was still raging the russians offering a stub born resistance to the fierce onslaught of the japanese the sacrifice of lift has been appalling estimates of the russian losses alone in killed and wounded at the end of the sixth day s fighting are placed at 30 while it beems not improbable that it aggregated at that time 40 japanese reports esti mate that 10 russian dead were left on the field of battle up to the night of october 14 and allege that the japanese losses are small by corn parison with those of the russians general kuropatkin s report to em geror nicholas depicts the desperate character of the fighting and balses the valor of the troops indicating however that he is hard pressed with the result still in the balance all hope of succoring port arthur this season has been abandoned st petersburg has an unconfirmed report that the japanese general has been seriously wounded A question of interest in st petersburg Is the fate of general kuropatkin as a fac tor in the russian military situation |