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Show PEAEFUL SLAUGHTER LOODIE8T BATTLE OF RUSSIAN-JAPANESE RUSSIAN-JAPANESE WAR NOW RAGING. After Six Days of Desperate Flghtlno the Loss of the Russians Is Placed at From 30,000 to 40,000 Men. At the rinse of the soventh consecutive consecu-tive day of fighting between Mukden nnd Llao Yang, the battlo was still raging, tho Russians offering a stubborn stub-born resistance to the fierce onslaught of tho Jnpnncse. Tho sacrifice of life! has been nppalllng Estimates of the Russian losses nlono In killed and wounded at the. end of the sixth day's lighting aro placed nt 30,000, whllo It seems not improbnble thnt It aggregated nt tjint time 40,000 Japanese reports estimate esti-mate that 10.000 Russian dend wero left on the Held of battle up to tho night of October 1 1, nnd allege that tho .Inpnnese losses nro smnll by comparison com-parison with those of the Russlnns. General Kuropatkln's report to Emperor Em-peror Nicholas depicts the desperate character of tho fighting and praises tho valor of the troops, Indicating, however, that he Is hard prefied, with tho result still In the balance. All hope of succoring Port Arthur this senson hns been nbnndoned. St. Petersburg hns nn unconfirmed report that tho Japanese General Nodu has been seriously wounded. A question of Interest In St. Petersburg Is tho fato of General Kuropntkln as a fnc-tor fnc-tor In the Russlnn military sltuat'Dn. |