Kuropatkin Wants to Resign

Manawatu Standard, Volume XLI, Issue 8038, 14 March 1905, Page 2

Kuropatkin Wants to Resign

Over 200,000 Men Lost.

LONDON, March 14. Tbe Times' St. Petersburg correspondent .states that Kuropatkin reached Tieling with the rpmnant of his army. He asks tho Czar's permission to resign, alleging thit he is in urgent need of physical and meLtil rest.

Official despatches record the loss of 600 gun?, 20 colours, and over 200,000 men, though the worst is withheld.

The public is stupefied, as last week's despatches related only sucee<ees.

Had General Kuropatkiu otdered his retreat on the Bth, as he first intended, he would have averted disaster.

When h» retreated on the 10th the Japanese swarmed frocn east and west, and placed batteries commanding the Hnß o( retr-at.

By sacrificing his guns General Europstkin Bavei a part ot hia force, tbough the ratroa! waa a sauva gui pouS (save himself who can).

The first fugitives roached Tieling within 80 hours.

A Buscian newspaper correspondent deeoribos the retreats as a rout, and states that everywhere there was panic owing co tho fierce firo of ihe Japanese artillery. The whole country between Tawau, Puho, and the railway was one great) ohaos, bvrgage trains all hampering and crowding each othe;*, only intent on getting away. For eeyersl hours the troops were lv hopeless confurion.

Clouds of dust niado it extremely difficah to ccc even iho direction of the road.

UnimtitoK- the panic beoarae diminished, (led the iroops then attempted to collect some of the abandoned waggons,