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Show ARE SHIFTING THEIR ARMY. Japanese Reported to Be Quietly Strengthening Their Flank. Advices Trom Russian headquartert in Manchuria aro to tho effect thai during tho Jnpancso bombardment ol Poutlloff hill a projectllo from a slcga gun onterod an underground hut, burst inside and toro off tho head of a lieutenant and wounded a colonel and two staff captains, who wore playing cards. In front of Koudczl, on the right flank, tho Russians nro trying tho effect ef-fect of tho concentrated slego with mortar batteries with good results, firing fir-ing ns mnny ns twenty mortnrs slm ultaneously, Tho Jnpancso nro reported to have sufforcd moro from tho cold than tho Russians during tho fighting westward. west-ward. Tho hospitals at Llao Yang nro reported to bo crowded with frostbitten frost-bitten men. 1 According to tho Chinese, tho Jap- 'y. oncso rescrvo brigades aro being Br' moved eastwnrd, Indicating tho dlreo " tlon of tho Jnpancso offcnslvo when it begins. Reports from tho samo sources say that General Nogl will j command tho extremo right. , Rumors contlnuo thnt tho Japanese nro quietly shifting heavy forces from their center to their flanks, tho constant con-stant artillery work In tho central position po-sition seeming to cover such movements. move-ments. Mukden nnd Its neighborhood nro full of Chlncso spies in tho pny of tno Japanese. |