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Show EXAGGERATED REPORT. Telegram From Rome Announcing . Kuropatkin's Defeat. London, June 1. A special dispatch, from Rome says a ieiegfam has been received there from Tokio reporting that General Kuroki has completely defeated General Kuropatkin's forces near Sumentz (probably Saimatsza or S'matsi.) All the. Russian positions east of Ilau Cheng have been abandoned, according to the telegram; several guns have been taken and whole squadrons of Cossacks captured. It is possible the news received in Rome refers to the fighting reported in last night's Associated Press dispatches dis-patches from Liao Yang and St. Petersburg. These did not indicate a general engagement but showed that a series of sharp engagements had taken place east of Simatsi, 'lasting from the morning of May 27 until daylight May 30, which resulted in severe losses on both sides and the retirement of the Russians upon Simatsi. The latter place is thirty-five miles north of Fens Vang Cheng. |