RUSSIAN CENTRE RETIRING.

Evening Post, Volume LXIX, Issue LXIX, 8 March 1905, Page 7

RUSSIAN CENTRE RETIRING.

THE JAPANESE ADVANCE. POSITIONS CARRIED AT THE BAYONET POINT. (Rocoived March 8, ?*2l a.m.) LONDON, 7th March. The* Meuoiid Uiu«i;m line at Chantan, which was captured by tho Japanese forces under liunoral Oko, was defended as obHtinat-ely us the flint Imo. Uoiicml Oko And Nogi aftunnvrds advanced rapidly in tlio t:tcc of enormous difficulties, an<s carried position a-Horpo-Kit ion, often tit. the point of tho hnyonel, ngHinnt NU|ioriitr mrnil>en^ to a point fiftct>u milwt nonJi-wt'Rt of Mukdon. Tho klUr point m«h inichwl on Saturday, when Hie ilnj>»ji*»o"woro still Advancing. Except ut Putflilse and Maohinpu ihu romstnnce otTovrd by tho Rtituman troops ■wns spiritleßs. Many threw awtiy their arms and clothing. Tho Russian centre near the railway l)egnn retiring on Sntmxltty niglit, tho Jnpi'^wo capturing some six-inch howit/er nincliino gum. The Itawiimis ckum thnt <Uiring tho countor-niUickti on the Shaho tlioy c*[>turcd two nmichino guns and ft liuntircd priiioncrs ouitmud of Pudiloff Hill. UoucTal Kumki's troojw and tlioso oppoKCtl to him, (if spit o terrible hjrdshiiui anil tho cold weather, display equal obfltinacy and deiring. In ono niatnnce j the Ruminn» rciioliod tho Japanese i tranches, whore tlio opjwsing troops bayoneted one another. The Jopanera oiiarged the battery at the top of. tho hill, and almost reached tlio guns, which the Russians skilfully \savcd.