Show WAR JEWS boklo sept 18 P m couo ranga for tho MC with and cheers bearing lory 0 llao yang lantern streets and crowds botne through the around thi staff shout las urge banzai tho details ot today s fighting are scanty it Is only known oku a general that at dawn today hurled against abo russian army was the southern alno and right center on to that tho russians were forced abandon their line and positions and retreat pursuit is now in progress the result 0 athla pursuit and the result vt the fierce battle waged aa the eastern line where general kuroki is assailing tho force which has long liao yang together with the abandonment ot the russian the southern line exposes right center on the russian left but here the russian force Is so heavy that it may be able to protect and extricate itself the question ot the occupation of liao yang uy the japanese is in doubt the official dispatches do not make mention of such alon but it Is assumed that the russians ate withdrawing through llao yang and that the japanese possibly occupied it late today tonight no estimates are obtainable of the losses on either side field marshal oyama describes his losses in the morning assault as heavy the early success of the attack was son unexpected on account of the strength of the russians and the nature of the russian defenses it la confidently believed that field marshal oyama will press the pursuit with desperate vigor and inflict on general kuropatkin the most crushing blow possible it Is believed that his trophies will provo valuable it is the opinion here that the russians were abot able to carry many guns with them and that they were forced to abandon or destroy vast quantities of stores BT petersburg disappointed st petersburg sept 1 a fa the news of the japanese occupation yang and the withdrawal of the russian army to the right bank of the reached only a small section ot the people at st petersburg at a late hour and caused intense ex and disappointment the majority of the inhabitants retired to rest believing that russian arms hal again been successful and that the japanese attacks had been repelled ugly suspicions however have been received during the day owing to the absence of press telegrams from llao yang leading to the belief that tho communications had been cut by gen kuroki NOW IN STRONGER POSITION the following statement was obtained by the associated press from the war office at 10 thursday night general kuroyla Kur okla army crossed in force to the right bank ot the talase river and it therefore became necessary for the russians tobe to be in a position to repeal a blow in this direction in view of this development in tho operations general kuropatkin decad eato abandon his positions on the left bank and to concentrate his ahola army on the other side of the river this position Is the strongest both in character anaf in site the great issue will be finally decided there by withdrawing to this portion the russian army avoids allie danger ot divided by tho river and enjoys the 0 compactness compact nesa general auvo there tore Is not to bo considered as a retreat but rather aa iho carrying out of ft well defined idea JAPANESE IN LIAO YANG the withdrawal p the russians to tho right bank involved the abandonment of bao yang which Is situated on tho left bank tho japanese took advantage 0 this to occupy the city but the st ernest part ot the fighting Is belll before them unless general ku bojt the last hour to again fall back to tho northward it Is more than likely however that he will decide to fight to a finish the cards are all in his favor it Is belles ed now that he has the japanese divided by the river thus effectually turn ing the tables upon foe kuropatkin AVOIDS TRAP the determined pursuit by the japanese of the russian outposts when general gave the first order to withdraw was probably due to their anxiety to keep the russians south of bao yang until general ku should bo able to strike from the northeast general kuropatkin however saw the trap and cleverly avoided it yesterdays FIGHTING FIERCEST up to the hour of tiling this dispatch the war office has not given the details of the fighting of september ast 1st but it is believed that this fighting exceeded in fierceness that ot any previous day the absence ot press telegrams from liao yang on september ast 1st aroused suspicious that changes ot importance were proceeding which the military censors did not wish to be made known RAILROADS DAMAGED A telegram from the associated press correspondent at mukden tiled at on the evening ot september 1 states that the train service between mukden and bao yang has been interrupted but the dispatch does not mention whether the telegraphic communications are open FIRST ATTEMPT unsuccessful according to a dispatch from bao yang general kuroki made his first attempt to cross the talase river late in the evening under cover ot a heavy bombardment ot the extreme russian left the japanese artillery which has been firing uninterruptedly for 11 hours ceased about daylight this morning and resumed about 11 0 clock to conceal preparations tor crossing the river these preparations necessitated the establishment ot a pontoon bridge as the river was not tord abla lower than tun and the pontoons pon must have been floated down the stream the efforts ot the japanese to cross the river on august 30 were not successful cess ful and general kuroki therefore ordered a portion ot his army to ford it at kuropatkin HELPLESS general kuropatkin was unable to prevent the passage on account ot tho distance from bao yang about 20 miles but tor the same reason the japanese were unable to bring the forces which gained the right bank immediately into action kuropatkin heard of the passage ot the talase at after six on the evening of august and immediately gave orders for his men to tall back on the outer positions this Is explained by the desera to collect a strong force with which to repeal a flanking movement from the northeast SECOND ATTEMPT successful the japanese repeated the attempt to throw pontoons pon across the kaltsa near bao yang during the night of august again under cover of a bombardment and this attempt to bo to have been successful severe fighting my therefore be expected immediately northeast of the city JAPS MAY REGRET MOVE the action 0 the japanese commander in throwing a force across tho river in the face of a strong enemy Is considered to be extremely rash and the position of this force isolated from the main japanese army by a deep river may become desperate WILL NOW USE GUNBOATS A correspondent of the associated press at vladivostok telegraphs the japanese are relying on aid ot the gunboat flotilla tor future operations against bao yang and mukden the gunboats gun boats the correspondent says have not yet materialized but in any case they would bo in no position to render aid to a force on the right bank antime of need because they would be unable to run the gauntlet of tho borts torts at llao yang the strongest forts are situated on the right banat where the russian army is now concentrated GREATEST OF MODERN BATTLES the fighting at llao yang has beat en all records for the desperate valor ot the assailants ana the invincible stubbornness of the defenders the whole history ot warfare tells of no such bombardments no such carnage and no such persistency day after day tho tight has been resumed at day break and kept up with hardly a moments intermission until after flight fall war scarred veterans believe the stories which come from the beat of war and declare that it is human endurance for an army to fight without respite for a week each day of which has exceeded its predecessor in intensity of struggle and carnival day after day the thousands of dead be strewing the battlefield have to be removed the japanese have invented new methods to incan crate the heaps of dead comrades removing the J or the honors of burial in japan the wounded present a moat sellout problem as they tax the alon capacities on both aides to the m roost the most difficult problem which has occurred Is the bringing up ot supplies of food and ammunition to every point of the fighting line which extends from ten to twenty miles never has such a bombardment been known an eye witness she battle of Vata ngow told the associated press that many suffered nervous prostration following the terrible roar of the artillery and one military lat had to be invalidated home for thac sanio reason yet the artillery tiro at ngow waa far inferior in intensity to that at llao yang DESPERATE FIGHTING sept 1 i p m additional details of the at llao yang which are arriving here clearly indicate ita desperate character the Japa noeo have changed tafe method of numbering their armies since their union calling general ku dokla army the right general the center and general the loft A portion or the left column of the right wing after the artia blans occupying on eminence sa 0 toward evening on aug was exposed to violent attack by the reinforced retired during the night to a bouth of where they held their position the russians prepared to follow up heir attack but resisted desisted des isted the right and center of the right wine with its main strength commons com monc ed n movement at 11 on the night of august crossing the river near advanced toward to azua tuo but details of the movement have not been reported 1 tho russian artillery alro against the right column of the japanese center abated somewhat yesterday tho infantry fight continued unabated the japanese held their positions JAPANESE HEAVEN BACK the left column of the center was vigorously engaged from wednesday morning throughout the day but its efforts to dislodge the russians failed the right column of the left wing resumed the attack wednesday morn ing several assaults proved and the japanese troops were beaten back finally being reinforced they again advanced and secured a position at noon on an eminence southwest of this ground proved to be a vantage point from which a final and effective charge was delivered at dawn thursday bringing the first victory the center column after repulsing the russians in a night attack pressed the russians against the railway with a portion of the left column and succeeded in repulsing a series of assaults the russians continued to hold an eminence west of and defied all efforts to dr ahem the eminence was finally taken by storm thursday morning the entire left wing with all its force continued against the russian line throughout wednesday at 3 0 clock in the afternoon a force of russians appeared five miles west of Shoushan pao which the japanese reserves attacked late wednesday night a telegram wag dispatched to iho general staff at boklo baying that tho left wing its artina would renow the attack and afterward charge against the position reinforcements NOT london sept 2 the dally malls correspondent telegraphing under date of august 31 isaya tsaya that japanese are en route from dalny to hal cheng by railway originally igi nally they were intended to reinforce the besiegers of port arthur the correspondent adds but field marshal oyama commander ln calef of the japanese fores in manchuria was that they were not required there and therefore cent north RUSSIAN AID FROM MUKDEN A special dispatch from st petersburg which la not from any other source reports that general alln evitch from vladivostok IR within two days march of mukden with 30 troops CHINA WATCHING development the Stan darda correspondent says that dispatches received there from are lo 10 the effect that china Is constantly increasing her military forces on the neutral side of the llao river and that she has ordered general ma to firmly enforce the rights and duties of neutrality in the event of tho russians being defeated at llao yang and attempting to enter neutral territory TRIED TO BLOW UP the dally malls shanghai correspondent spon dent says that chaplain aschinoff of the russian cruiser rurik which was recently sunk by the japanese has arrived there the chap lain bays that after a vain attempt 10 lo repair the rudder junior continued on page 3 WAR NEWS continued from pago two aleut ivanoff who succeeded to the command 0 the tried to liow up the vessel but that all the fuses were destroyed and that he then op ened the se acocks the wounded he says placed on cork mattresses and thrown overboard the other survivors followed and the cruiser sank turning completely over kuropatkin IN PERILOUS POSITION commenting upon the situation in the far east all the morning newspapers discuss the problem as to whether general will be able to extricate his forces or whether field marshal oyama wll succeed in completing the victory by enveloping and destroying the russian army the consensus of opinion Is that general position is most perilous the absence of telegrams from llao yang together with the news that the railway Is interrupted the newspapers regard as showing that general kuropatkin has begun bis retreat too late STILL AT ON PORT AR THUR I 1 interesting reports come from tien tsan and che foo that the japanese have effected a landing of troops and the capture of two small forts near tigers tall three quarters of a mile from port arthur and near the lighthouse at mountain and that the attack Is being vigorously pressed JAPANESE PREDICT NAVAL SUPREMACY vladivostok sept 1 hopes of japan we freely discussed by japanese prisoners here all of them are confident that naval supremacy will enable japan to dictate terms of peace which will include according to them the possession of port arthur dalny korea Sag hallen and the commander islands leaving manchuria in russian hands OUTLINE OF VICTORIES the japanese prisoners claim a first victory for their country inthe preventing ot the russians from making B base of vladivostok from which place the hostile fleet would effectually have imperilled Imperil led communication in korea rendering a land campaign impossible the japanese they say gained this victory by forcing a war in the winter when vladivostok wag let bound the attack on the port arthur squadron and the bottling up of that place they claim were their next victories then came the battles of the balu yalu and of kin chou both of which are regarded by the japanese as victories tor the navy they declare that without the aid of gunboats gun boats it would have been impossible to cross the balu yalu or to storm impregnable kin chou thanks to the navy the japanese formed baneg at Ta kashan and later and thanks to the navy they are now preparing to form a river flotilla like beneral Kitch eners nile expedition which will be able to ascend the llao river and its tributaries tributa ries as far as llao yang and mukden and so harrass general kuropatkin as to compel him to retreat to thus effectually preventing a march for the relief of port arthur jor the japanese declare that the capture of this fortress is their aim this determination is doubled because of the fact that a portion of the russian squadron has returned there and they assert the destruction of rear admiral prince chips Is more important than the defeat of they realize that the japanese must capture port arthur before vice admiral commanding the baltic squadron can thrive there the loss of the fortress ind of the war vessels now there will compel the baltic squadron to remain n european waters but they are confident of coping with this squadron is inferior in number and which be lacking a naval base provid ing their plans at port arthur are successful cess ful f f I 1 la 11 iv OUTLINE l MOVEMENTS the japanese state that by the time that general kuropatkin has sufficient nion to the Japa neso will have gradually withdrawn liuo korea retaining only port arthur and dalny having fortified every point anthe line of march in order to impede anit not to prevent a hesslan advance the japanese are confident that without the mastery of the aea no russian army no matter how |