KUROKL HARD PRESSED.

Woodville Examiner, Volume XX, Issue 37220, 16 September 1904, Page 3

KUROKL HARD PRESSED.

OPPORTUNE REINFORCEMENTS, THE LIAOYANG FIGHT. THE CAUSE OF THE RUSSIAN DEFEAT. MEDIATION URGED. Londox, Sept. 11. General Kuroki’s report shows that he encountered enormous difficulties in holding the highlands of Haiyentai, owing to constant Russian reinforcements, and the very disadvantageous nosition of the Japanese arlilLry. The situation was saved after two days desperate lighting by the opportune arrival of the third Japanese column. General Oyama states that however many corps Russia mobilises,

Japan can dii "cate them, with better troops, ami ranch more expedi tiousy. The general staff state that ten i mps have reinforced General Kuropatkh since the battle of Liaoyang. Tlm army now exceeds two hundred thousand, with 300 guns. It is belhved at St. Petersburg that when the Japanese attack Mukden General Kuropatkin will leave a rear guard of 50,000 while the rest will retire to Tiehling. _ Reports concerning Geneial Linevitch’s expedition in north Korea and General Sassulitch’s disaster are not confirmed. M. Xordeau, correspondent of a Paris journal, cabling uncensnred from Tientsin, attributes the Russian defeat at Liaoyang to lack of enthusiasm of the troops, who were very much weakened and dejected. The army needs its supply of regulars doubled and all the reserves replaced. The report cnnc'.ud s: ‘lt : s impossible for Russia to resume tne offensive for some time.” New Yoiik, Sept. 14. , The Interparliamentary Union at St Louis hasjjadopted a resolution deploring that the signatories to the Hague Convention have not tendered their mediation in the war, and expressing the hope that the Powers will intervene to restore peace. They ask President Roosevelt to convene the Hague Conference. THE HORRORS OF WAIL

30,000 JAPS SLAIN IN ONE BATTLE. CREMATING THE BODIES AT LI AO YANG. WHAT JAPAN INTENDS DOING London, Sept. 14. Other accounts supplementing General Kuroki’s show that the Japanese stormers at Haiyentai encountered wires highly charged with electricity, receiving severe shocks. The Russians also threw hand grenades with terrifying effect. Though Haiyentai isonly a quarter of a mile Jung the crest slopes to ravines and was literally honeycombed with ir. aches which became a veritable shambles, blood being smeared every wh-'.e, and it was impossible tjst ;p whh m;. treading on bullets, shell-, and i wis’ed bayonets. Close to the ,-umm.t lay 200 dead Russians who were mown down close Co the trenches. Five greatly iniproy. d submarines are being built at Massachusetts for Japan, costing 175,000 dollars each. Mr Bennett Burleigh reports that the Japanese losses at Liaoyaug are nearer thirty than seventeen thousand. The Japanese secretly bat strongly hold ail the districts along the Liao river up to bimraingting. Large bodies of Chunchuses arc cutting off stragglers who are preparing to ope;ate to the north of Mukden. General Kuroki’s force was foodless for four days excepting for raw rice. The Russians were so confident of victory at Liaoyang that the Cafe Chantant women remained until the battle was half finished. Several of General Nodzu’s regiments lost all their higher officers, while one company was reduced to fifteen men, whom a private commanded. Correspondents of English newspapers describe General Kuroki’s narrow escape. At one stage his communications were cut. He was only saved by General Oku’s and Nodzu’s frontal attack. General Oyama reports that a considerable force of Russians remain south of Hunbo. The Russians are fortifying both sides of the Liao and Teiliug. Many thousands of Chinese coolies are assisting the Japanese in digging trenches at Port Arthur. Fresh forces are constantly arriving at Dalny. Many reports from the interior of China show that the Japanese are drilling large armies of first-rate qualities. Linevitch is at Viadivostock, whither 2000 Cossacks with six j guns are returning from Hamheiung. The theatres and churches at Harbin are filled with invalids, 35,000 wounded are being under treatment. Immense fires are utilised to cremate the slain at Liaoyang. Small Japanese detachments hoisted a flag on the west coast of Kamchatka, but later were defeated and 17 killed. Fifty were killed in other engagements. The coast steamer Calcbas has been released. But the flour, cotton and timber lor Japan were confiscated. A Russian cruiser hoarded the Cardiff steamer Derwent to the westward of Gibraltar, Oyakiyukuo, a former minister, states Japan, after capturing Port Arthur and \ Jadivostock, and driving the Russians to the north-east, will maintain a quarter of a million troops at strategic points till peace is declared.