OCR Text |
Show RUSSIANS SIMPLY MOWED DOWN I Lost Two Thousand Men and Forty BJ Officers In Encounter With Japaneso. BJ Tho Russian losses at tho battlo of BJ Klu Lien Cheng wcro 2,000 men nnd H forty officers far greater than pro- BJ vlously reported, says a St. Petors- BJ burg dispatch. This Is tho ofllclal cs- BJ tlmato of Major General Kashtalln- BJ eky, who directly commanded tho dl- BJ vision that suffered tho brunt of the BJ attack, and whoso report was ro- BJ eclved Wcdncsdnj by tho emperor. BJ Many aro Inclined to placo tho Rus- slan losses even higher. General BJ Kashtallnsky mentions also that moro BJ than 700 wounded had arrived at m Feng Wang Cheng nnd theso may not BJ bo Included In his calculations. He BJ mado no attempt to cstlmato the t Japaneso losses, merely stating that BJ they must have boon colossal. BJ Tho magnitude ot tho Russian BJ losses hnd an almost stunning effect B on the authorities and aroused gun- BJ cral grief, mitigated only by satlsfac- kBJ tlon at tho bravery displayed by the BJ Russian troops. BM |