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Show JAPS FORCED TO RETREAT. Flacking Column Encountors Cossacks Cos-sacks snd Get Worst of Argumsnt. Following on thn heels of the news of the disaster to the Japineae fleet Mm general stuff at Ht. Petersburg tins rec eived official advlcea of th defeat of tho Japanese force which was manning northward from Feng Wang Clu ng for the purpose of executing exe-cuting a flunk movement on Mukden. Details of the dispatch will not be made public until It has been paasod on by tin. war commission, but enoiish hns been communicated to make It c.eur that In order to save themselves from destruction the Jnpuuese were compelled to retreat toward F- tig Wang Cheng. Hlnce fieneral fien-eral Kui.4.1 sent a column northward to gain the loud leading directly west from Mukden. General Kumpatkln baa kept It under the rlosoat surveillance, surveil-lance, awaiting tho mimical when It should bo so distant from the main Japanese army as to prevent Its easy reinforcement. In observing this plan, the Russians withdraw, and tbe Japanese Jap-anese nut finding a strung force of the enemy before them continued to advance. When' tho time for action came General Kumpatkln lot General Rennenksnipff 1000 from leash. Qenoral Renncnkumpff had under his command only a few reglmanu, but they were the flower c the Coa sack cavalry. On May 18 he fell on the onomy, whose number haa not yet been revealed, with such vigor aa to compol thu Japanese roliromunt twelve miles towurd the base, near onough, It la presumed, to have received re-ceived reinforcements from Qenoral Kuroki, who muat Immediately hare been advlsod of tho awkward predicant predica-nt euL |