Eureka Reporter | 1905-03-17 | Page 7 | Japs Capture Forty Thousand

JAPS CAPTURE FORTY THOUSAND believed to have lost nearly half his army the latest dispatches would mould indicate that while general kuropatkin Kuropat km has ap parent ly succeeded in saving more of his artillery than seemed possible his losses in men ammunition and corn coin mis sarlat supplies in the battle ol 01 mukden mulden are tar far greater than earlier reports indicated and even that por tion of his army which he succeeded in extricating from their positions around mukden Is still in serious danger while a small portion of kuropat kin s army has reached tie pass the greater part of those who escaped from the battle of mukden are still struggling onward being at last ac counts between twelve and sixteen miles froin from their goal with the japan ese flushed with victory and rein forced by fresh men harassing them it is more likely that will fall right back to harbin with what he can save and there wait tor for the cements that st petersburg has already promised him A possible obstacle to the plan Is general kawamura mura s army which has not yet been lo 10 bitted and which may also be head ing tor for the northern capital general kuropatkin admits that 1190 officers and 46 men are not responding to roll calls this is r rather ather vague it may or may not include the thousands of wounded who have been sent north and again it may not in elude clude the losses suffered by the third army with which the commander in chief was not in communication tor for some time the figures given by the japanese war office appear more rea namely 40 prisoners 26 BOO left dead on the field and 90 killed or wounded the latter figure of course including the dead found by the japanese the russian losses therefore total more than men or more than one third of the whole army the fact that tle the japanese re port the capture of only sixty guns in dicatos that kuropatkin at the last moment succeeded lo 10 sending a consider able portion of his artillery northward on the railway the japanese losses were reported as not including the army which pushed north between mukden and fushun