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Show DECISIVE BATTLE NEAR. Believed That Greatest Fight of Campaign Cam-paign Will Take Place Soon. Whether a general engagement Is already progressing around I.lao Yang between the forces of General Kuro-patkln Kuro-patkln and the three Japanese armies, which have been moved against them from- the south and east, the declslvo battle of the campaign Is regarded as certain If tho Japanese energetically follow up their preliminary successes of tho last throe days. At various points tho fighting has been of a desperate des-perate and bloody character, the Russians Rus-sians offering tho most stubborn resistance re-sistance Tho losses, therefore, although al-though their extent Is not yet established, estab-lished, must bo heavy on both sides, netweon 0 000 and 8.000 men Is onci estlmnte given of tho Russian Iosrcs. All tho estimates, however, aro little better than guess work as yet nnd possibly tho Russian casualties may bo much larger. |