| Show RUSSIANS FALL BACK THEY WILL NOT MAKE A STAND AGAINST ENEMY AT kuropata Kuro patk n s plans were upset by fa lure of major general orloff to hold general kuroki s ex R following is a dispatch from st pet kersburg no fresh 1 has been thrown on the situation at the front unofficial information tends to confirm the reports that general kuropatkin is withdrawing the bulk of his army northward from mul den the rain continues at the front the three armies of F eld marshal oyama are re ported to have un ted north of the river but there is nothing yet to indicate that they are sufficiently recuperated to resume the advance the best unofficial op n on is that ku ropati in does not contemplate mak ing a serious stand at mul den the spirit animating the japanese troops is shown by the translay tran slat on of a letter written by a spartan japanese mother to her son which has reached the war office the letter nas found on the body of her son it adjured him to fight nobly for the mikado and his country and informed him that his capture would be considered an ever lasting disgrace upon the family an and that it he d ed on the bat biefield tie field it would be an honor which his family would celebrate for a week correspondent says kuro s strategy was upset by the failure of major general orloff to hold general kuroki s extreme right ac cording to this correspondent kuro s plan was to catch kuroki after he had crossed the river by a quick and clever movement orloff s miss on was to attack desperately sept 2 the front of curol i s army which had marched northwest to hold him and it possible to drive him back toward while the lat ter severing karou s comman cation struck with all his might at his flank and rear but orloff was unequal to the task assigned him his division had just arrived from russia and its fighting as not known when he kuroki orloff was wounded early in the flent and was compelled to hand over his command to mal e the matter worse the horse of his chief cf star bolted the di vi on could i ot res st the onslaught of japanese troops and gave way and re treated in tl e meanwhile Kuro in was just launch ng his attack but when he found the japanese were turn ing his left he was compelled to aban don the offensive withdraw aej or dered a retreat As it turned out how ever general Sta kelberg had corns to orloff s rescue and checked the jap abeso flanking movement just before they reached yen had kuropatkin held on a 1 atle longer the fate of the day m have been d efferent as thi was the cal moment for kuroki referred to in the dispatches from the japanese side |
