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Show KUROPATKIN'S REPORT.' Russians Take More Cheerful View of the Situation. St. Petersburg, Sept. 14. 6:10 p. m. The long expected detailed report of the battle of Liao Yang has been received re-ceived from Kuropatkin. The war office of-fice says it will fill sevaral columns. The report covers the operations from Aug. 28 to Sept.. 5. According to tl.e advance summary communicate! to the press by the general staff it is ve.y satisfactory, showing that the retreat was effected with such precaution that not a single, field or, fortress tun wjs left behind. The total Russian losses are below 17,000, of which 4,500 weie killed. - - ' In the opinion of-officers who have read the report if Is.-favorable to General Gen-eral Kuropatkin. practically disarming the previous . disposition to criticise him. The report explains the successive succes-sive withdrawal of his three lines south of Liao Yang, how the .nain army crossed the Taitse river, General Kuropatkin's Ku-ropatkin's assumption of the offensive, Major General Orloff's reverse and rhe consequent order for the retreat of the whole army to Mukden Sept. 3. The circumstances of Major General Orloff's reverse, which General Kuropatkin Kuro-patkin considers responsible for the necessity of. his' retii'ment, explained in these dispatches "today, substantial-1 ly agree- with. General Kuropatkin's version. The latest reports of the war office, coupled with Genera! Kuropatkin's Kuropat-kin's detailed report, give a distinctly more cheerful view of the situation. The army is "rested and reinforced by the whole of the First Euiopean corps, The bulk of it is er.camr.ed anu entrenched en-trenched around Mukden, with the rear guard fifteen miles south. On the other hand the war cinee's information in-formation indicates that the Japanese forces, which have not yet recovered from their terrible exertions and iost-pe at the battle of Liao Yang, are concentrated concen-trated at Yen Tai. not ven tiring north. Small columns of a few thousand men each occupy positions aiuiig the roads leading to Mukden, east and west of the railroad. The war office has no in form a lion 'In show it.at Japanese columns aie north of Mukden. |