Show BATTLE AT SIEN russians attempt to cut off japanese comman cat on with balu yalu river abe russians are attacking sien chuang thirty miles northeast of sia southeast ot bao yang and almost due north ot feng wang chens evidently with the object of cutting off japanese communications with the balu yalu river A battle south ot mukden raged un interruptedly all of tuesday and into the night it tras continued wednes day the results have not been give the russians have a heavy force on the japanese toward the talase river but it is believed that the japanese have checked the rus turning movement A general japanese advance along a broad front toward mukden Is A brigade of russian try with 2 ya cavalry and two guns having the object ot striking general kuroki flank crossed the talase river october 9 the japanese cut off the retreat of this force and possibly will capture it |