Show f armies of oku and okuri ag are in touch men gre gating port arthur fight wrapped in mystery W jun 2711 27 11 petersburg st 08 pat general wt bellel the confirm delved tonight battle ot the decide that the great general kuropat between armies or maa main army and the generals kuroki and oku the three armies aggregate and their outposts re 1011 touch all along the line the japan evidently tried to draw kuropatkin ese south possible holding as far tho incentive a check to out as an of coteus main army advance to the meantime swans sharply ast ward to kuroki toward ane pass kuroki at the same chapan force by the time boving a strong right flank toward ha cheng the main japanese advance cos along the main fang wang cheng llao yang road avoiding the tien pass by a detour to the northward the advance in all points Is being attended by nothing la known here ot the exact point at which Kuropat main force is concentrated though it is be cleved that a large part ot the llao yang force has been moved to a point between ala chaa and tabe klao according to the associated press from tche klao today a large force has pushed southward from tche klao against oku white kuropatkin Is thus extending the japanese with great mo blaty be trying to concentrate for the purpose ot striking the in flank and rear viceroy Alex lelTa message tonight with the brief dispatch from rear With oett naval commander at port arthur throda laule adal lional light on the sea fight off port arthur the admiralty and the em geror are further details with the bame eagerness aa the general public the latter today tor the first atme received information through the mediums of foreign tele that a fight has occurred the loss of three vessels of the port arthur fleet is admitted to bo a severo blow especially it not purchased by creater loss to the japanese than retried by vice admiral togo the of the report la the arbo continue tu believe that there tas been a later fight which has not et beta reported in the absence of further information the admiralty la not disposed to although it Is admitted to lave unfortunate for tho squad on at such a critical time that its commander om hould be an officer like who though personally a trave bailor never before flew his lag over a squadron it ts pointed but that he could not have forced to get out of port arthur aa yie situation tharo is not yet by any boans desperate if ho fought hia ay back through the investing fleet 1 was because one of his patched up chip had broken down or for aher urgent reason it ho arrived in ue outer harbor at night be proba my did not want to go nto the inner because the narrowness of ahe channel made night navigation angelous ang erous or because one of ls stranded at the entrance of ue channel nothing else could ac bount for bis remaining in the other fa be exposed there Is a belief that vladivostok squadron put lo 10 sea saturday and Is likely to be next heard of in tho korean straits the associated press has received a curious dispatch from a russian correspondent at vladivostok who took pains to that vice admiral would probably be unable to go out again for weeks as the ships had to go into dry dock tor the purpose of thoroughly overhauling their boilers and cleaning their hulls pre to putting to aea to meet the battle squadron the dispatch added tat t at come of tho tor boats have been battered by tho storm during the last expedition to the japanese coast in conclusion conc luson tho correspondent says that nothing has been heard of vice admiral kami muras squadron the statement that brince of bourbon was an eye witness lu the lining ot russian wounded at vatan gow attracts considerable attention in official circles as the character 0 such testimony cannot bo ignored official action however Is likely to be deferred until the reports of the russian have been received war office official arc disposed to regard tho acts as the work ot individual frenzied soldiers and they cannot believe that it Is the intention of tae japanese commanders to countenance such a program of no quarter st petersburg june 27 the general beatt has received the following dis patch from lieutenant general rob dated june 26 there Is reason to suppose that a considerable force of the enemy proceeded from the Wang tsia station in the dir atlon of tile mountains marching northward toward the chapan pass our patrols u june 25 noticed that ho japanese were beginning to move along the northern yen kal chau road from kau and Pants lapel in the direction of the vel pans the enemy on juno 25 undertook to advance from Se luchan toward the liao yang main road and also along the road leading to tien pass through Tang and eleven miles northwest of Seln chan A battalion advanced along the llao yang main road and a regiment of infantry and two squadron of cavalry along the valley 0 the tsao river A battalion and two squadrons marched westward in the direction of the rhoun bains abo enemy on he main road was stopped first by two companies c sharpshooters constituting our van posts which slowly started northward reinforced by two companies the enemy at aso in the afternoon occupied the sharpshooters retired north toward easen twenty two ingles north of Se lucban our were lieutenant and five sharpshooters wounded on juno 25 about a battalion of japanese infantry marching out from five inalea northwest of sel aclan along the road to the tien pass was repulsed by two companies ct our sharpshooter out posted near Tatang ku the sharpshooters tell back arst on and then upon kont slap captain in command of one company of sharpshooters was wounded ills wounds were dressed dr fischkoff Risch koff of the ked cross and captain eky was being carried to tho rear on a stretcher when the japanese rushed on from the hank three stretcher bearers were wounded and captured end captain was captai ed we also had two sharpshooters hilled and lieutenant end thirteen wounded during the night of juno 25 the cn regiment of infantry and a regiment of cavalry strong remained at at 9 on the morning of june 26 a japanese alinn reached along he yen hal cheng road from stok hodza in the direction of Vat andzia budza the fin fantry and mounted guns followed the vanguard at midday the enemy 1 resumed the ad on the morning of juno 28 from in the direction of aang the main road by the road to he tien delue through and the road to the pase turning our right the enemy was located in the tien pass at last a regiment of infantry with artillery was ordered to proceed along the main road to llao yang this j detachment reached at 9 I 1 we have received no other report regarding this movement following are the details of the reconnaissance con of the japanese torace made by a russian detachment on june 22 at Ayari amyna 1 yang tien at 1030 a m the cavalry of cur advance gaiard drove the enemy from the trenches of their advanced positions sit ions at p m four russian guns of the mounted horse artillery had been placed in a position against the right flank which they bombarded with great success the enemy retiring the berried ranks ot the japanese troops developed a violent fusillade which however waft without result at abig moment our came up atud our companies were thrown the right danic of the position one company being held la re arv to protect our right flank aalst which two japanese companies were advancing the enemy tell back auder the energetic pree eurt of our alre for a distance ot two or tareo alice evacuating their position at 4 p m at the moment that our cossacks battery approached the enesye 1 petition it wae exposed to the concentrated cent rated anre of eighteen mounted rung mid within a few minute eight cos cue were killed twenty were wounded the nera at that time had th shelter of the nearest atone bull dlug but our companies continued to raulee re ulee the abo position t of the enemy was reached when three ot japanese infantry brero discovered having ascertained alio neth of the enemy the commander of our detachment ater to atop the advance and ordered tho mountain battery not to change its position in order not to expose It to u losses the right flank ook the offensive at 6 p m our two companies ol 01 sharpshooters and a company ot commanded by second captain having dismounted put tho japanese battalion to full retreat by wall sustained point blank volley which considerable damage tho fight continued until thanhha to ihlo darkness wo acro able to hyvo our geue udy yanco ot atlle cuemye infantry was checked by the firo of our sharpshooters and the ended at u p our era ct gourko colonel lieutenant of cossacks leond lieutenant of cossacks and second lieutenant hoa nan and elx men killed and men wounded seven ot tham the losses were considerable |