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Show RUSSIANS SIMPLY MOWED DOWN Lost Two Thousand Men and Forty Officers In Encounter With Japanese. Thn Hussinn losses nt the bnttle of Klu Lien Cheng were 2.000 men and forty officers far greuter than previously pre-viously reported, says a St. Peters burg dispntcb. This la the official ps-tlmuto ps-tlmuto of Major General Kaslitalln-aky, Kaslitalln-aky, who directly ci mmnnded the division di-vision that suffered the brunt of (he attnek. and whose report was re reived Wediiesdai by the emperor Many are Inclined to place tbo Una slnn losses even higher. (lenernl Kasbtnlliisky mentions also that more thnn 7(lo wounded bad arrived at Feng Wang Cheng nnd these may mil be included In hla cn.culntiona. He made no attempt to estlmnle the1 Jnpanese losses, merely aiming that they must have been colossal. The magnitude of tho Russian losses hnd sn almost stunnlui; effect pn the authorities and aroused gen- oral grief, niltlr.nted only by satisfaction satisfac-tion at tbo bravery displayed by tbe Huaalan troops. |