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Show CRUSHING DEFEAT Kuropatkin Lost all save Honor, Apparently. Oyama gets lots of Useful Use-ful thiugsat Mukden. There Is no further startling news fiom thcKasternsltuatiou. Kuiopat-Uln Kuiopat-Uln was whipped to a stand still, and and wlille his entire army Is not captured, cap-tured, it Is In great danger. Dispatch-1 es yesterday said that the Russians i aie Hearing Tic pass, and that Japanese Japan-ese detachments continue a northward movement from Mukden. The war office admits that even the lcmnatits of the army aro still in danger. dan-ger. Field Marshal Oyama holds a magnlllclent strategic position. It Is icporlcd that tho Japanese Hanking columns arc hi touch above Tic pass, and that there may bo a Sedan there. No adequate estimate of losses has been furnished, but with the units captutcd on the left unaccounted for the killed and wounded already total 05,000. The naroillco docs not even know accurately what units were cap-tuied. cap-tuied. Oyama's Report. The following report lias been re ceived from Field Marshal Oyama: "The number of prisoners' spoils and tlic enemy's estimated casualties against all our forces In the direction of the Sliakho follow, hut the number of prisoners, guns and spoils arc increasing in-creasing momentrally: "Prisoners over 40,000, Including Gen. Nakhlmoff. ''Killed, apd wounded, estimated at .Op.QOO. Enemy's dead, left on the Held, 20,500. "Flags, two. "Guns, about sixty, 'Itliles, 00,000. "Ammunition wagons, 150. "Shells, 200,000. "Small arms ammunition, 25,000,000 rounds. "Cereals, 15,000 koku (about 75,000 bushels). "Fodder 55,000 koku. "Light railway outfit, forty-llve miles. h "Horses, 2000. "Maps, twenty-three cartloads. "Clothing and accoutrements, 1000 cartloads. "Bread 1,000,000 rations. "Fuel, 70,000 tons. Hay, sixty tons; besides tools, tents bullocks, telegraph wire and o)cs, timber, beds, stoves and numerous other property. |