Eureka Reporter | 1904-09-16 | Page 2 | Kuropatkin is Silent

kuropatkin IS SILENT st petersburg has had no word from russian general tho dearth of immediate press and official dispatches from the present actual seat of war of the tar eastern struggle continues it is admitted by the russian war office that no tele grams whatever were received from beneral kuropatkin bearing tues day s date the last message to the em geror from the general being dated september 5 and briefly telling that the army was advancing northward that it had extricated itself arora a dangerous position that there wv constant cannonading of the rear guard and that the losses on that day were about the russian borcea aro pushing on to mukden greatly impeded by heavy roads and floods conducting an order ly retreat and followed step by step by the japanese details of the ing and of the exact position of the opposing armies are lac ting the report that Kuropat Mn s rear guard has been annihilated and that the russian forces are in danger of being surrounded is denied by the russian general staff the russian war office Is entirely confident that the retreat Is slowly but surely being ef