| Show Kuropat feins artillery is playing a more important part in the war gen grip leaves for st petersburg russian headquarters huan mountain sunday feb 6 general gruppen berg former commander of the second manchuria Man army left here today for st petersburg the japanese are feverishly fortifying ibell east hank and center evidently apprehending a russian offensive movement the russian movement on the hun river having demonstrated the pos W of operations despite the wink ter the japanese arc attempting vainly to roll up the russian right wing northeast of San depas manchuria feb 5 delay fi chinese arrivals here report that 1 he only japanese force at llao yang ds composed of gen darmas and po jice though troops are quartered vic in nearby villages the higher officers live at the railroad station where a t carpe commissariat and ammunition aa il depot has been established huge quanta of rice fish sugar etc are stored the railroad from port arthur ui vast to llao yang is intact ten trains of orty dagons each are running both rays daily the second railroad abich he japanese are building from the balu river to liao yang Is not com meanwhile the japanese have a banow gauge road for horse fraction ath st petersburg Pete isburg feb 6 telegraphing under date of feb 5 general kuropat in reports as follows app A Russian detachment marched to Lant aitse twelve miles of n abon bay the japanese at and were re alie diio russian losses were the japanese assumed the offensive along the line to today several af their batteries advanced but the russian artillery repulsed them RUSSIANS entrenching boklo feb 6 official announcement Is made that everything Is quiet in the vicinity of Chang tan with the exception that the russians are strenuously in drenching trenching tren ching the russian force which attacked tzu february ath retired northward february ath on the afternoon of february ath and the morning of february ath the russian artillery west of taishan shelled mountain and vicinity small bodies of russian infantry attacked but they were repulsed before abandoning fongchin Song chin in northeastern karca january the russians burned all their stores it Is thought that the russians intend to abandon all operations in northeastern korea KUROKI IS PRAISED british general says he is an extremely modast officer general kuropis Ku headquarters feb 6 via fusani general sir lan hamilton of the british army who has been observing operations at the front and who has been recalled to take command of the southern military district of england left for japan today on his way home he alu stop in india to con |
