| Show RUSSIANS HAVE HOPE BELIEVE THEY WILL BREAK THEIR LOSING STREAK kuropatkin has reoccur ed and holds the town of wh cit was lost and recaptured by russ a several times reports from kussian sources give a more hopeful view of the situation of general kuropatua Kuro s army that commander has and holds the town of thi possession of which for several days was first with one and then another of the contend ing armies reports from the russian left wing the safety of which fiere had been much about are no later than the night of october 13 they had been fighting for days for the possession of pass an important strategic pom but up to the point of sending the la t dispatch the japanese were still in possession of the pass in order that this col dmn may be able to the main russian army it is necessary that gen eral kuropatkin should hold the bridges over the hun river and the posit on he now occupies on the r er there is no ind cation that the end of the great battle is at hand estimates of the losses abow a wide divergence but are as a rule lower than those given in sunday s dispatches |