REPORTS FROM KUROPATKIN.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXV, Issue 249, 18 October 1904, Page 5

REPORTS FROM KUROPATKIN.

DEFEAT DUE TO ARTILLERY. TWO GENERALS WOUNDED. TROOPS SLEEPLESS FOR THREE •\ NIGHTS. LONDON, October 17. Tlie Si. Petersburg correspondent of the Petit Journal says £ua.t General Xuropatkin reports that he is retreating in good order. Tlie resistance of his' troops, he says, was magnificent, lint they -were compelled to yield to the incredible fury of the Japanese artillery fire. General Rennenkaaipf and General MeyendorS were both wounded. General Meyendorff's corps, which was in the Shiliho district, suffered severely. The Echo de Paris says that General Kuropatkin explains that on Monday night the enemy in large force attacked his Shiliho line: Several attacks were repulsed, but the last broke the centre of the corps. The Russians were reinforced, and Shiliho was captured and recaptured and again taken owing to a portion of the troops on ' the flanks and centre having been withdrawn to a partially-fortified position. ' ■ There was desperate fighting for four days', and many of the regiments had not slept , ' for three nights. ' General Kuropatkin's report concludes j ;. " I am full of hope that they will be able to continue * -resolute resistance. ' "Considerable bodies of Japanese troops have crossed the railway from west to east."