THE RUSSIAN REPULSE.

Press, Volume LXI, Issue 12014, 15 October 1904, Page 6

THE RUSSIAN REPULSE.

Matters have never, looked* worse /for , ; the Russian* throughout the war than ihey .Jo at the time of writing. It ie more than a' week since Kuropatkin made* hie first offensive movement 'of '". the , campaign; and up to Thursday the fighting at one poiat or another along the whole front of twenty miles was continuous and detcrtninexL Prom what one tan ;gatt«r; f the,Russian general endeavoured to turn the Jppener« right; and 'Field*JJarehal Qyama, replied by si dwpmte attempt to «n----velopo the Rut&ian right; in order, ....apparently, to relieve the prmpre'ori.JGerio* ral Kuroki, whose army on the right has been heavily engaged all the weekr The ; Radian, advance, which was undertaken, to French corrwpondente allege, m order to Whip up th« slnggirii patriotism of the Russian people, had the effect of causing the Jnpantws armies to draw together, and ;t was possibly by th« help of this compulsory concentration that Oyama 'wjw enabled to attack, with "imch lako, the more scattered Russians when he-ww an opening.. 'Both sides appear to havo fought with,even more than their,,vuraal valour—the Russiane because they were anxious to wipe out past dc<feat« end liumiliatione, the Japaneiw v becniwe they recognised the moral effect of maintaining . their., victorious record, '] whether the foe*attacked;or defended. After having sustained 'some desperate aasaulta, before which, in one or two instancee, they were liompelled to giv« thq Japanese themselves a«samed the . offensive on Thutsaay, and hy>ighifoll h«d driven back the Ruaeuin centre and right upon them main position*. TTie Ruwian left, which in opposed by General Kuroki, appear to have retained, co tar, ita a.l« vanced positionw. Few details are yvt available, but it seems , certain that some twenty or thirty Rnenan guwi. have beta captured by General Oku, who leads the Japanese army oii the left, and it is said, "thai the Russian Communications With Mukden are in danger of being cut. In the cneantime a Kuesian force which got, in behind the Japanese right, and cut its communicatiqne,' is itself in considerable

danger of being' »nna have nuKained a eevereRured, and it -is quite possible'that; Ittif& newe may■ >how that ■ tiie du*astrou9 defeat, At defenders ore in a most desperate tion: half the town w reported been «et on fire by the incessant ment. from the Japanoee Assailants hare recaptured an positron, and a large number of are said to havo surrendered The apparently reached its most dnunj^^