ON THE ROAD TO MUKDEN. A .HALT EXPECTED.

Evening Post, Volume LXVIII, Issue 61, 9 September 1904, Page 5

ON THE ROAD TO MUKDEN. A .HALT EXPECTED.

LONDON, Bth September. No official confirmation has been published in Russia of tho message from Mukdon, through Router's Agency, announcing that tho main army was evacuating Mukden and pushing north. f Advices from St. Petersburg assert that General Kuropatkin, with tho bulk of his troops, has arrived at Mukdon. Tho authorities anticipate that a halt will be mado there to enable the army to organ iso its dfefenco. This expectation is based on tho beliof that both sides are so exhausted that a halt is unavoidable. According to an earlier message received from Mukden, part of tho Russian army following a wagon road is in danger of interception. Japaneso forces to tho westward constituted tho chief monaco to tho Russian rotroat, but they were chocked. Nevertheless, a considerable portion of tho transport was left behind, owing to quagmiros. "NO DISORDERLY RETREAT." (Rocoivcd Soptembor. 0, 7.34 a.m.) LONDON, Oth September. Tho Paris journal Pafcrio states that General Kuropatkin's movo is no disorderly retreat, as tho Japanoso despatches ulloge, but an offonsivo march to tho roar.