THE WAR.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 11955, 6 August 1904, Page 7

THE WAR.

THE RUSSIAN RETREAT.

OPPOSED ON THREE SIDES.

KUROKt IN THEIR BEAR-

JAPANESE IN GBEAT FOBCE. ANOTHER BATTLE BEPOBTED. COBDON CLOSING ON PORT ABTHUR. SEVERE RUSSIAN LOSSES United Pmnm Awo«Ution—By Elwlrie Telegraph— Copyright. (ReoeiTed Auguit 6th, 1 a.m.) LONDON, August 5. General KuToki, with 100,000 men, i» behind, tliat is to say, to the, northward*, of the retreating Rueeiwis. Geaeral Oka with 50,000 ia in frpnt, and General Nodsu with 50,000 ia on their left flank. (Received August sth. 10 p.m.) LONDON, A«gwt 5. An unconfirmed report has' been circulated in St. Petersburg that a battle m in progress northwards of^Haicheng. LONDON, Aegiut 4. Train loada of munition* and proviekmi are being hurried to Mukden preparatory j to the oontimted Rueian retreat northward. Rcuter'a Agency reporta thai it is stated hi military ciroks at SU Petersburg that. | General Kurapatkin intends to evaceato Liaoyang, but not without fighting. Twenty .ttyueand fresh troops lately landed at Yingkow, and am adTanciag on i Liaoyang. It is expected at St. FefcMburg that General Kuropatkin will erac«ate Liaoyang when the heavy accemmlation of war material emberraees his mov»mente. ! The victoa of Tomuchan occupied Haicheng. The "Berliner Tagebiatt" state* that » new army is forming under the paad Duke Nicholas Nicholaivitoh, , •