Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-02 | Page 2 | Big Battle Raging

BATTLE w HALF MILL ION MEN ENGAGED AROUND LlAO YANG expected that engagement V 11 be a becis e one and that t will last for several days the heaviest battle of the war Is raging around liao yang folio ving the rear guard wl ich kuropatua Kuro has fought in his retirement from ahping and Anslia nshan he has either elected or been forced to give batt e and is meeting the astaci of the combined armies of curol I 1 godau and oku dispatches from the battlefield show that at dawn tuesday the japanese opened a terrific artillery fire directed mainly against the russian center and right this rain of shells was con tinned throughout the day until 9 clock in the evening A dispatch from liao ang at 49 tuesday evening showed that the battle was increasing in intensity the japanese pressing forward until a one point their advance developed into a hand to hand fight the russians repell ing them with the bayonet so far reports do not indicate the trend of the action but it is freely pre dieted that the engagement will decisive one and that it will last tor several days the combined forces en faed are estimated at between and of all arms