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Show KUROPATKIN TO SURRENDER SOON Belief Prevalent That He Is Surrounded. Last Struggle Terrific, Great Loss of Life. New Chwang, Match 0.- It is re- yr ported here that. Tic pass, lias been In- 4JQ vested by the Japanese and that Gen- ,' eralKuropatkln.havingnoalternativc, will proftibly be forced to surrender within a week. s St. Fetetsburg, March I). The general gen-eral start has received the following dispatch from General SakJiaiofT, Ku-ropatkln's Ku-ropatkln's chief of stall, dated totlay: "Several fierce attacks on our north front were made during the night. They were all repulsed. In other directions di-rections the night was quiet." General Sakharoff's reference to the Russian "north front" would seem to Indicate that a Japanese force Is between be-tween Mukdenand Tie pass. Though the Japanese may have cut the telegraph tele-graph line along the railroad, it is possible pos-sible that Held telegraph lines hac been run between Eushun, where Ku-ropatkin Ku-ropatkin may have his headquarters, and Tic pass, thus accounting for the seeming conflict In the advices from Toklo and St.Pctesburg lecordlng the severance of the Russian line of communication. com-munication. St. Petersburg, March !). A veil Is drawn over the piogress of General Kuropatkln's heiole effort to extricate his beaten army, but the general stall s Insists that while he lias been defcat-" defcat-" ed, yet there lias been no disaster. The peril of the whole army, especially especial-ly of the rear guatd, Is admitted, and Mukden may have been evacuated ., during last night, although nothing definite has' been received on this " point. Fanatical Desperation. The losses will exceed those of any battle of the war. The fanaticism displayed by the Japanese Is shown In an Instance mentioned by a Russian correspondent, who describes how a captuicd Japanese broke away from hiscaptoisand threw himself, head-foicmost, head-foicmost, Into a Chinese well. Peace Improbable. While the defeat of Kuiopatkln has levlved the talk of peace, It Is too early jet to measure its full effect. In diplomatic eludes, unless Oyama N lias crushed the Russian army, little hope is held out that the imperial resolution res-olution to continue the war will be altered. Much, ltj agreed, will depend de-pend upon the internal developments which follow when the full magnitude of the lcvciso Is known. , |