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Show WIN GREAT VICTORY LITTLE JAP8 HAVE THE CZAR'S MEN ON THE RUN. ) Russians Are Withdrawing North- ward, Having Suffered Heavy Losses In Recent" Encounter With Brown Men. A dispatch to a London news agency from Mukden dated October 14, bays tho Japanese havo gained a great victory, vic-tory, and that tho Russian lines are withdrawing slowly northward, having suffered heavy losses. The battlo con-tlnucs con-tlnucs and dispatches are strictly censored. cen-sored. All accounts of the fighting south of Mukden that have reached London appear ap-pear to confirm tho completeness ot tho Jnpaneso victory, nnd the only question discussed by military critics Is whether General Kuropatkln will bo able to make as orderly a retreat as ho did from Llao Ynng, or whether tho Japanese possess sufficient fresh reserves to undertnko a successful pursuit. In which latter case it Is be llcvcd tho Russlnns will bo compelled to abandon Mukden. A dispatch from Toklo to the London Lon-don Standard says: "It Is unofficially reported that tho Japaneso right army has succeeded In Isolating a forco of three or four divisions of Russians in v the Fcnslhu-Kiatoan district It Is ni-mored ni-mored thnt Kuropatkln himself Is with the forco which seems doomed to de-Btructlon. de-Btructlon. Tho central army captured eleven guns nnd tho left army twenty-five twenty-five guns, while the spoils of the right army aro expected to be still moro valuable. It is hollered thnt tho disastrous disas-trous advance was forced on General Kuropntkln from St. Petersburg. In any case, his movo was an unexpected godsend for tho Japanese army." |