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Show RUSSIA LOSES MANY MEN. Awful Slaughter In Engagement lo Vicinity of Llao Y.ing. Unofficial estimates plure the Rti elan force In tho vicinity nf l.laff Yang at fifteen division of 1S.00S men each. Theso are probably excessive, exces-sive, but It la evident that aiimcrlcaj. ly the Russlnna exceed the Japanese. The opinion that the Rusalan caa-usJtlet caa-usJtlet In thn recent fU-htlng will reach 30,000 la confidentially ex. pressed In high quarters at Toklo. Neither Flold Marshal Oyama nor the Japanese army cnmmnndnr haa aa fet estimated the Russian losses. It aeema thnt the Japanese avoided t direct assault upon Mao Yang Itself, but devoted their energlea to tha troops outside the city, and an effort to cut off the Russian retrantt. |