Show mm THOUSAND FEARFUL SLAUGHTER IN battla NEAR MUKDEN Ru ians on the run although japan ese lost men jahile the russian loss is general kuropatkin in a telegram which arrived in st petersburg at 7 clock saturday evening said japanese had broken through the rus elan left wing and that it was cut off from the remainder of the army at 10 clock came another dispatch from general kuropatkin which read the japanese are parching on den my position Is extremely daeger ous la government circles la st peters buri there Is a conviction that gen eral kuropatkin has been fully beaten that part of his army has been dispersed and that the 11 north at mukden will probably be cut the balale raging at the front ha assumed enormous proportion al ready correspondents place the kus sian losses at 30 men and those of the japanese at 40 on thursday field marshal oyama shifted the weight to bis left seeking to envelop the russian right eight milea southwest of mukden in the hand to hand fighting which followed and continued tor tour hours th loss on both tides was enormous but the most serious news is the re port that the japanese attacking col dmn at sta min tin about thirty miles west of mukden has divided part of it moving straight east to roll up the russian right wing while the other Is making forced marches mortn with the evident purpose of cutting the russian line of alon with tie pass and closing the line of retreat should the operations prove successful the russian army might be surrounded general kuropatkin says that the russians have been compelled to evacuate their position at pass |