Show ALL IS conjecture AS TO russian commander has arrived at muk 4 den but his army is still on the march silence in the r japanese camp Is no news the far east althar from russian or Jap anest sources sou roes for the world watchers ol 01 the cicat tragedy tho curtain has been dropped and all its conjecture not even an expression of opinion cornea from japanese sources but from st petersburg it Is indicated that the authorities are confident tho critical enago of the russian retreat Is past and that no longer Is in danger of losing any part of his forces to tho pin suing japanese the russian commander has arrived at mukden and it Is given out in st petersburg that arte bulk of hla army is cow near there while a dispatch from mukden to the associated press tiled attas day says chast the main russian army Is pushing northward and evacuating ahat place it is indicated that the japanese are abiu the russian rear fiu ther than this Is known an absolute news silence prevails london sept 7 the trend of tho view of the moroa tig newspapers on the war in the far east Is that general arrival at mukden does not solve the problem of his retreat where will stop Is what is asked here ane dally telegraph holds that the latest developments are merely the prelude to the colossal conflict looming in the future most of the english critics look for repetition of the liao yang bae at bieling or in that neighborhood scarcely any london newspapers believe that kuropatkin has brought the bulk of his forces with him to mukden it Is pointed out that neither side is likely to risk the desecration of the imperial tombs by a pitched battle at mukden the cradle ot the manchurian dynasty and the mecca of all good it Is thought will likely be respected from motives of lolley by loth the belligerents though a comparatively pacific occupation ot it by the japanese la forecasted to occur within a few flays the standard voices the very pre jaent idea namely that the continued japanese silence bodes for the russians the morning post though confessedly unable to sum up the situation owing to the absence of japanese official reports thinks that general kuroki may have crossed the hun river to the east ea st of mukden other prophesy that the jap anese will occupy mukden or as a winter base the dally telegraphs seoul correspondent cays there Is an unconfirmed report there that the japanese have landed several fresh divisions of troops in the vicinity of bay culling aft the retreat of the russians in northwestern korea london sept 8 the dally mails correspondent cabling under date of september ath says rail cars at the rate ot eighty a day loaded with wounded are passing through the station tor mukden the shrapnel injuries are frightful and a majority of the men succumbed on the journey to the hospital correspondents arriving here keenly resent their treatment by the japanese and declare that they see nothing of the war they are treated as though they were spies while na TO correspondents aro permitted lo 10 atiee the fighting and telegraph freely tho daily mails cho foo corre spond says that rear admiral arlu has been ordered to remain shanghai with his squadron until port arthur falls sept 7 A correspondent has juat arrived ved here after a journey covering a distance of miles from wast of mukden and bays that during the latter part of hia journey ho could hear the fighting at llao yang the correspondent saye the whole country is aflame with the wildest and most contradictory rumors the principal interest in the situation la in the fact that the chinese population is becoming more anti rus sian with the advance 0 the japanese army mukden itself Is overcrowded and it is accost impossible to get food or a place to sleep everywhere there is the greatest uproar and confusion and many families are leaving in the direction of harbin the soldiers however are not all disheartened dis at the result of the fight and they say abat the japanese losses are so tremendous as to seriously weaken them they declare that they have made ehfe japanese pay infinitely more for llao yang than it was worth 1 I visited M one of the associated socia ted press russian correspondents who was shot through the lungs in the attack on bergs corps southwest of bao yang august he Is in the russo dutch hospital and the doctors say he is not yet out of danger he however declares he soon will be back in harness st petersburg sept 8 a m the general staff Is not displaying great anxiety over the alarmist reports that general kuropatkin Is in serious danger of being cut off but it they had any information from the front with data they have not revealed it the members also decline to say even it they knew whether gameral kurop atkaln purposes taking his army north of mukden an officer of the general staff said to the associated press wednesday night 1 I believe it Is safe to say that gen army Is now out of danger our advises advices since monday indicate that the fighting Is of an insignificant ant character and I 1 do not believe that the tired japanese troops are capable of seriously threatening thellie thel lne of retreat the greatest difficulty our army Is now having to contend with is the terrible roads owing to the rain of monday and tuesday our information is that the bulk of the baggage has already passed through mukden this Is the usual procedure in case of any retreat movements after all must depend chiefly on the tactics of the japanese with whom lies the initiative K the japanese continue to press north in the hope of cutting off the russians and bringing them to bay then kuropatkin will be obliged to move north to circumvent them but both armies already are terribly exhausted and if they again come into grip the result will depend largely upon which of them is able to throw the most fresh reserves into the fight it there is a race northward it is apparent that the greatest danger will come at the narrow defile of north of mukden but the authorities seem fairly wel satisfied with the situation and are confident of its ultimate outcome |