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Show A TERRIBLE LOSS OF LIFE And lull in the Eastern East-ern Fight. Japs are not progressing progress-ing so Rapidly. St. l'eteisbuig. Oct. 20 The seven da)s' battle noith of Yentai was the heaviest blow jet struck the Russians b) the Japanese, so fai as loss of life is concerned. The left Japanese aimy timing the week bulled 4,100 Russian dead left In fiont of Its lines. A village vil-lage in fiont of the left wing contains man) Russian dead, but the shell lite ol the letieatlng Russians pievents the Japanese fiom leaching them. Conscivatlve estimates place the Russian Rus-sian casualties at not less than 25,000. I'robablv man) mote dead aie on the Held In places not jet scaidied. The Japanese icpoit theh total casualties at a little ovei tluee thousand killed and wounded OI'KUA'l IONS SL'sl'K.S Dili) The suspension of opeiatlons below Mukden continues. It is hinted In milltar) elides that the next developments develop-ments should lie looked for eastwaid, but whethei on the part of the Japanese Japan-ese oi Russians Is not levelled. No news h.n reached the War olllcc of the icpoited annihilation of a Russian Rus-sian battalion while teciosslng the Taitse livei A dispatch fiom Cen Sakhaiotl, dated last night, lepoi ts that all was quiet along the fiont jeslculay, and that in spite of the sogg) condition 1 ot- the counti) toads, which aie de-scilbed de-scilbed as seas of mud, the Russian scouts continue to show gicat enterprise enter-prise In examining tlie Japanese positions posi-tions No statement is made as to what is ti.insphingon the Russian left. IIKI.IKV KM 1IIKHI UKl'OKl The Wai oillce is now disposed to believe that thoToklo icport of the drubbing given to Cen. Yamada's brigade is the Japanese version of the capture of Lone Tiec hill, nicely tinned tinn-ed to uiinimic its impoit.incc The repoits that Gens Reiinen-k.unptl Reiinen-k.unptl and Mcjendoif aie wounded are denied. The fonnei's chief of stall, Col. Rossiskj, was wounded JAPS LOSE HEAVILY. Cliefoo, Oet20.A junk which left Llaotl piomonton jesteiday was driven by a gale and arrived lieic tonight, to-night, biinglng 100 coolies who left 1'oit Aithui because they feared In-juiy In-juiy fiom the Japanese shells. These coolies say that on Octobei 1.! there was fleice lighting for several houis on the slopes of Rihlung mountain moun-tain between cotnp.uatlvc)) small foices, dining which the Japanese lostliOO killed oi wounded. Japanese wounded saj that the soldiers sol-diers In the trenches sullei severe!) from the cold, although the Japanese aimylsnow almost completely supplied sup-plied with winter outllts. It is said that the l'oit Aithui gai-lison gai-lison Is fiantlc foi news ol the opeiatlons opeia-tlons of Cen Kuiopatkin, liom whom the defendeis expect lellef |