RETREAT OF RUSSIAN ARMY.
RESUME marsh FROM ye™. THE REARGUARD ALMOST ANNIHILATED. RETREATING ARMY BEING SURROUNDED. TERRIBLE SUFFERIHBS OF BOTH ARMIES. JAPANESE SUCCESSES AT PORT ARTHUR. IMPORTANT HEIGHTS SAID TO BE CAPTURED. The retreating Russian army concentrated at Yentai, and then resumed the march northward leaving a rearguard at Yentai. Later news says the rearguard was almost annihilated, and the whole Russian armj was in imminent danger of being surrounded. Prior to these report* General Kuropatkin had informed the Tsar that his troops were retreating in good order. At Port Arthur the Japanese have sustained repulse* with heavy losses. They are reported, however, to have captured the heights at Tongchaitsze, near the railway, and close to the foilices, and to be maintaining a very destructive bombardment.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume XLI, Issue 12654, 7 September 1904, Page 5
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