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Show IKUROPATKIN'S PORCliS SUKR0UNDnD Report Comet That Kurop.it',n't Rrar Cua'd Haa Oren Alrr.oit a-nl:ted and Main Army l ,n piger. II wi r.- h tie I In hi i(, Yti.tirg at a !.-." Ii'"ii Muti ny ni-.:hi i tlenernl K'ir. inil.tna rear iriiii.il (.utieen nl-j nl-j t..i"t armtlil.at.-'l an. t;lft. 'iie main II i Ian nn ny la In linmli.it dang-r I ' f In I'll', nn Illed. 1 1 " llu-iiun loKaea ii,,,-, ,ilte lltht I In-; nl Mini Y.ii'K are . ::Etl nt l-'i.- ! 'I lie:e la no dieiv , -t that n iniii'li'T of nulla. .-p. . al i liego aril, ar-il, I. i. I me I.e.-n nl.i,l,a "l A dl.i.lt.ll received IVIem. tin , rti'iti II. in nil Kutdilin Inill-mien Inill-mien thai (ieui ral Kiin, i' army and ll'-ii' rnl Ktirokl a ami) f ra.-lug fur Mukden. hikI that 'I t neilt la In llnuht. Oeneral Kiimpalitln aayithet the reireat la being condui t! perfect it.lrr Tho Jnpani-ae reptHy attacked at-tacked tho lluaalan rear a Hunday, but In every rano they nrepulaed. Hiring Sepiember 4 iheJapaneao ttrengihened their fon iperatlng aealnat our left flank, ext.alns their llnea from the Yen Tal mM northward. north-ward. Tho Japaneae a! g September Septem-ber 4 rroaaed from Mao Si4 end Ita envlront. Iteld Marahal Oyama'aj 'le army la acroaa tbo Tullae rlv.-y gd I pur- ulng Deneral Kuropniklnj'avrrea, It la reported, but not ynonflrmed. that (leneral Kuropatklii) at obliged lo abandon 20 guna atI Yang. loner Fort Taken by gpa. Etae. 142 feet aNe tht M level. It on of the weatern line ol'.he Inner forta. It conimantf the twn. on and one halt mllea f-ldw, id tht Tl-or'a Tl-or'a Tall bttterlcai ut It Urlf under the guna of Ooldenlilil. 191 eft high, and tb guna on la ttelrhtmortbt-aat of tba town, which im Mgb- Bome of them, It It aid. wero damaged dam-aged In the fighting pi tku roat wero dltablcd by order ot 1c guaalan com-mander com-mander ln-rhlof. , I Tho report that' thamperor will go to the front la ag revived and aeema to have fouutlnni. It la known that tho Imperial traUta been Qtted out for a long Journey I Crar'a Forget Are Preparing to Quit . Mukden. Which Meant Abandon, rrent of Southern Manchuria. j A dl"iintch fr.un Mukden, under date (if Hi-I.lellilier Ti. turn prepuiHIInna for the e in uatinii of .rtuk 1, n are prn.-eed-, Ing with bane, and that the Japaneae jforeea am w It li In thirty mllea of thnt I pile e. j A St. I'i lerwl.urg ill pat.-h. dated Ti:ilny morning, anya it la Inipnaalhio to obtain any nlatement from the nil I Hioritlo rnardliiK tho r. i.rtrd prep-nralli.na prep-nralli.na for the aliiiiidnnineiit of Mull-! Mull-! d.'ll Thla la the flrat Intllu.Mlon that am h a rourae la contemplated, if t jtiirna out to be true. It mennt the ! iibnndonment of the wholo of aouthem I Munehiirla and the winding up of the preaent campaign. In fact, ahould .Mukden be evacuated, there would be no point for wintering the army of a quarter of a million, with Itt many wiiiindcd. abort of Harbin. On tho other hand, Iho evacuation of Mukden would give Field Marahal Oyama cominodloiia winter quartert and the practical control of two llnea of railway. The Klnchou Slmmlnlln line, tapping rich Chinese territory, ttope llttlo Bhnrt of Mukden, with which It la connected by a good wagon road. Tho report of tho proapectlv ovacunllnn of Mukden, If well founded, would Indicate that Iho crippling effect of tha Mao Yang fighting on Kttropab kln'a army It more acrloua than haa a yet been Intimated. A tiiinmnry of tho war altuntlon to (Into abowa thnt tho wholo lluaalan army, or at leant tho main portion of It, la already abovo Yen Tal atatlon and la puahlng on toward Mukden. Field Marahal Oyama'a enllro army haa crnaai d tho Tullao river and part of It It hanging onto Kiiropatkln't flank. A alrong flunking column on tbo cant la pimhltig rapidly north. In an effort to bead off the lliiaalana. Agalnat thla column General Kuropatkln Kuro-patkln boa aent out a atmng cavalry division to tho northcaat, which, It I believed, la already In poaltlon to chock tbo Jnpnneae flnnkera, while to the wcatward Kurointlln la moving a division toward Slngmlnllii, thirty mllea went of Mukden, to meet any Interference In-terference that may be attempted BATTLE NEAR LIAOYANO. VJHACJOfO rmo " 'mxr jsttmjulo nmMmjjrvjtnucM QH from the direction of Ylnkow or New-cbwaug. New-cbwaug. Oyama'a advanc la reported to be ongaglng the Hnaalau rear, but It la not oxperlcd to dovolop anything more aerloui than a teriea of rearguard rear-guard acilona, tending to harata Ku-ropatkln't Ku-ropatkln't retreat. |