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Show TIDE OF BATTLE SHTS j - If TODAY'S DISPATCHES indicate that the tide oi : battle w"" JjJ Jf has turned appreciably in favor ot the Japanese ith a me"ar0eUaSrdDV 1 sustained assault on his right and center and I threatened on his rear o a heavv force which has crossed the Taitz river. Kuropatkin has been tore. to fall back" from his first line of battle to the fortified positio n he ha astab. . lished in the town of Liao Yang and Its immediate environs. A . t e burg dispatch says this order was given last, night after the h t withstood an artillery and infantry attack '..fSi I the Japanese pressure was too great to permit bf"f .t result in kin probably fearing that a retrograde movement at that time r i a rout. A dispatch from Tokio. bowser, bringing the action up to im. ft afternoon, says that the Russian right and center are now falling back, pui SURuLn XVIvlces say that General Kuroki. who was reported yes- terday as moving northward on the Russian left, has thrown po.noona ; ne. 4 the Taitz river and has crossed with one division while o "ei'sJ?', I ing. Kuroki's object, obviously, is to interpose his force between the Russian base, and the north, a movement which if successful, l Kuropatkin's rear and command the railroad leading from Liao Ian to , au ik den. The withdrawal of the Russian right and center probably will inoUt a similar movement of the troops holding the extreme left of the line ana result in a concentration of Kuropatkin's army in the position he has estao-lished estao-lished in Liao Yang. This is said to be superbly fortified with rifle pus, entrenchments en-trenchments and barbed wire entanglements. Tokio. Sept. 1, 2 p. m Popular estimates of the date of the fall or Port Arthur incline to the last week in September. ...... .T. h j TOKIO Sept 1 11 a m The united Manchurian armies of Japan have en- gaged in a desnerate attack upon Liao Yang, where General Ku opat- -kin has concentrated every available soldier. Victory was in the balance and the battle was a draw when the weary soldiers bivouacked last (V ednes- . dayThe Japanese are attacking from the south and from the east. The right wing of the column attacking fromHhe south keeps in touch with the lett & wing of the column going In from the east, forming an immense irregulai triangle, the two fronts of which cover an enormous ranse. Following the preliminary successes of the 29th south of Liao ang Field Marshal Marquis Oyama. the commander of the Japanese forces m the field promptly sent the united armies forward, and at dawn of Aug. 60 a desperate attack unor. a'l the Russian positions was made. The Jaranese found the Russians nolding a long chain of splendidlj fortified forti-fied positions with a tremendous force of artillery. The Japanese artiller opened the way, but these preliminary attacks generally failed to give an opportunity for an open assault. Victory at Liao Yang means the domination domina-tion of Manchuria and possibly the end of the autumn campaign. - The Japanese first army, after occupying the right bank of tne Lan river on Aug. 27. continued its forward movement and reneved the assault against th remaining Russian positions at Hungshaling. where the enemy hS i tKsd the most stubbornly. . Thy finally took the last Russian positions at this place and on an eminence north of bunchiasai. Following these successes the Japanese immediately advancen toward fean-vutzu fean-vutzu and Shlhehutzu, driving back the small bodies of Russian soldiers . sent 'out to impede their movements. Overcoming Resistance. j From the night of Aug. 27 to the morning of the 29th the Japanese ot- j tacked the Russian nositions on the ridge to the east of Sanyutza. Th. . Russians finally were dislodged from these ridge positions, but the JaPfne left was unable to advance on account of the forceful resistance made b . tne Russian troops who occupied the forts to the southeast of Hsianshantzu. Two divisions of Russians which previously had been driven from Hanpolm , crossed a bridge constructed over the Taitz river to the. north of Siaotant- j zuand retreated to the right bank of the river. Continuing the attack, the , Japanese center advanced and occupied a line extending from Sanyutzu to . the west of Shihchutzu. which the left, on the morning of the 29th. "after dislodging dis-lodging the Russians at Tashihmenling and Hsianshantzu. advanced to la- vutai and Tengchiafang. where it was reinforced. : The Russians checked the advance of all the Japanese forces coming up from the south along the Haicheng-Liao Yang road. . The Japanese resumed the attack on the 29th. The Japanese right took a line expending from Leichapao to Heinuchuang. while the left occupied a 1 Inl from a point Teat of Heiniuchuang to Yayutai. A detached column from the Japanese right advanced toward Weijagou and co-operated with, the left column of the first army. . The Russians on the Haicheng-Liao Yang road appeared to be occupying a-line of ridges extending from a point south of Shoushanpao to a point ! east o HaSchiatun and running through Hsinlintun. These eminences w ere fortified strongly and occupied by a numerous force of .the enemv The Japanese bivouacked the night of Aug. 20 in front of hese post it ions. At dawn of Aug. 30 all the Japanese armies conjointly attacked all tne Russian positions on the southern front, from a point north of Tengchiafang to a point each of Hangchiatun. and to the west of Hsinlintun and bhous-hanpao. bhous-hanpao. The Japanese center attacked with all its strepgth. The left column col-umn of the first armv continued the attack upon Tengchiafeng and Vutai, , but the Russians there received reinforcements and it was impossible to dislodge them. A separate column was then dispatched trom the rign. column of. the second army and occupied a ridge to the south of Tsafangtun. whence dt opened a cannonade upon the enemy at b o clock on the morning of the 30th This first artillery attack proved successful and at 10 o clock the Russians, having been reinforced from the direction of Liao ang, made an effort to retake the ground they had lost. Reinforcements to Rescue. Throughout the afternoon of the 30th additional reinforcements reached the Russians until, their force was estimated at two divisions and fifty or t,X ThU Japanese 'continued to attack desperately, and at 3 o'clock in the afternoon a junction was effected with the left column of the first army. The Russians were dislodged from Tsafantun and that vicinity. . j The Russians fought with dogged determination until nightfall. The main forco- of the Japanese right, with a portion of the left, attacked the southern Russian line in the neighborhood of Hangchiatun and Hsinlintun-and opened the attack against the ridges west of Hsinlintun with a vigorous vig-orous shelling The Russians defended these positions against this prelimi-' prelimi-' nary attack with energy and did not allow an opportunity for an open assault. Thov main force of the Japanese left occupied, positions extending from Jia-towle Jia-towle to Tachaochiatai and attacked the Russians to the west of S,houshan- PaTh Russians lisad machine guns! against the Japanese with effect, and the Japanese were unable to press their attacks home. ! During the day the Japanese left wing was reinforced with a detachment from the reserves The Japanese artillery, which attacked the Russian left, reached Wanger'ntun at 2 o'clock in the afternoon and poured a fire into the rear of the Russians ot Shashounpa. " , . The operations of the day Qia not succeed in developing the Russian strength in all directions. By the constant arrival of reinforcements it was seen that the guns at Shoushanpao alone finally numbered 100. The Russian positions at all points were strongly fortified, and the auxiliary aux-iliary defenses blocked infantry attacks. During the night of Aug. 30 the Russians at Shoushanpao attacked the Japanese left and repulsed that portion por-tion of the left which occupied Shaoyanzui. They also made a night attach. , upon the ridge south of Shoushanpao. On the morning of Aug. 31 both armies renewed the attack with vigor. By i a: late hour in the afternoon neither cont2stants had gained a visible result. The Japanese were holding Tengchiafang and Tsangtun and fighting brave- lv against-superior forces. ' portion of the Japanese right succeeded in capturing an eminence to the west of Hsinluntun at noon of the 31st. |