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Bush Advocate, Volume XVII, Issue 65, 18 March 1905, Page 5

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Kuropatkin Recalled. - Linievitch his Successor. Reinforcements fot* the Russians. Russian Prisoners at Tiefing. Spoils to the Victors. Eighty Guns Abandoned. A Railway Bridge Destroyed. Japanese Transit Hampered. Received This day, 8.20 a.m. Londox, March 17. General Kuropatkin has been recalled to St. Petersburg, and General Linieyitch has succeeded Jiini, The news has been received at Harbin with despair. The Fourth Army Corps, also Caucasian Cossacks, are arriving at Harbin to reinforce General Linievitch. (Received this day, at 8.39 a.m.) London, March 17. A great number of Russians were taken prisoners at Tiding. Marshal Oyama telegraphs that onethird of the burning provisions and fodder at Tiding were saved, and numerous spoils fell into their hands. Advices from St. Petersburg state that General Kuropatkin abandoned eighty guns at Tieling. The destruction oE the railway bridge over the Hun somewhat hampers the transit of Japanese supplies.