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Show REPORT OF MAY 17. Kuropatkin's Observance of Japanese Movements. St. Petersburg, May IS. General Ku-ropatkin Ku-ropatkin has sent the following dispatch dis-patch to the emperor, dated May 17: "A detachment of the Japanese advance ad-vance guard, which had occupied utillJ May 14 the Sin Hal Tin defile and ihe village of Kanghalputze, twenty-five miles north of Feng Wang Cheng, has retired toward Selingchau, in the valley val-ley of the affluent which enters the Pato river on the left bank. "There is a. small .Tananese detarh- rnere is a small Japanese aetacn-ment aetacn-ment at Tyang-Ko. "Surjan (Siu-Yen?) is still unoccupied unoccu-pied by the Japanese, who have conducted con-ducted a reconnoissance in force at Setehoge; eighteen miles to the south-oast. south-oast. "Information has 'been received to the effect that the Japanese have evacuated evac-uated Takushan. "The Japanese have detachments of infantry at Luan-Miao and Salitszai-pudza, Salitszai-pudza, namely. 600 at the former and 300 at the latter place. Their other forces have retired in the direction of Feng Wang Cheng. "At Khabalen, eleven miles southwest south-west of Feng Wang Cheng, there is a Japanese force of 5.000. "The rain is making the roads bad." Progress Impeded. Paris, May 18. A dispatch to the Temps from Mukden says that the mandarin of the district northeast of Feng Huang Cheng has notified- the Tartar marshal at Mukden of the arrival ar-rival of the Japanese in his territory. which indicates that their objective is to turn Liao Yang by tho northeast. "The steady ';;"Va in of the last two days," the "dispatch adds, "has interrupted inter-rupted the progress of the .Japanese toward Liao Yang, the artillery bin unable to move owing to the heaviness of the roads. The forward movement was resumed today." Weather Very Bad. Liao Yansr. May 17 (delayed in transmission). trans-mission). Heavy rains and snow which has fallen 011 the mountains so heavily impede the military movements. . The ruads in some places are almost impassable, im-passable, and may have led to 'th reported falling back of the Japanese 011 the roads leading here frort; Leri liong Chefig and Siu Yen. In consequence of the rain loosening the permanent way north of Mukden the rails spread at the station of Shu-amandzy, Shu-amandzy, causing a wreck in which j thirty persons were killed, mostly the families of railroad employes on their way north. |