Eureka Reporter | 1904-10-21 | Page 7 | Fearful Slaughter

8 BLOODIEST BATTLE af RUSSIAN JA WAR NOW RAGING after x das of desperate fight ng the I 1 oss of the russ ans is placed aft from 30 to 40 men at 1 fifths seventh conseco arve day of between mukden and llao biang the battle was still raging the russians offering a stub but n to the fierce onslaught of the japanese the sacrifice ol 01 life has been appall estimates of the russian losses alone in killed and wounded at the end of the day s fighting are placed at SO while it bedros not improbable that it aggregated at that time 40 TOO javanese Jan anese reports esti mate that russian dead were left an the field ot battle up to tha night df october 14 and allege that the japanese losse sare small by corn parison with those of the russians gereral kropatkin iro s report to em geror nicholas depicts the desperate character of the fighting and praises the alor of the troops ind eating however that he is hard pressed with the result still in the balance all succoring port arthur this season has been abandoned st petersburg has an unconfirmed report that the japanese general has been seno isly wo A question of interest in st petersburg is the fate of general kuropatkin as a factor in the R iss an military situation