Show RETREAT BECOMES A RACE russians and japs hurrying north on parallel roads A dispatch from st petersburg says anxiety regarding tho the fate of general force continues the main danger to them being the japanese columns which are hurrying northward along the great trade route twenty miles west and parallel with the line of retreat the heads of these th ese columns were officially reported to be passing thirty miles north west of tie pass on friday their appearance doubtless hastened the russians retirement which may now have become literally a race north ward as once the russians are headed it would be easy for the japanese by a short cut to throw themselves across the line of retreat after leaving kalygan general linevitch Is believed to have divided his army the main portion I 1 beeping to the railroad and the other falling back along the mandarin road which runs to kinn kirin it being im possible to leave the latter open to the japanese lest they then be able to creep up to the left flank at the same time it is recognized that a separation of forces is always attended with the danger of giving the enemy an all op port unity to concentrate and fight the army in detail some military men here believe that linevitch will try to hold the line from kirin to changsun Cha ngoun miles north of tia pass |