The San Francisco Call. Newspaper, March 7, 1905, Page 4

O CALL, TUESDAY, MARCH RUSSIANS STUBBORNLY RESISTING FIERCE ATTAC Desperate Assaults Exhaust the Little Brown Men. Issue of the Battle Still in Doubt Continued From Page 1, Column 1 The firing was fiercest at the village of Yaniziatun, which was set on fire by ghells. Shrapnel was responsible for nearty all the wounded. D-day’s f.zhting probably was only preliminary, shefling. Night attacks on the centef and left flanks were repulsed. The Japanese left 2000 dead in front of G Pass, NEWCHWANG, March 6, via Tien- | tsin—Traders arriving here report that 30,000 Japanese gained an en- wenched position five m west of the gates of Mukden last night. Hand- hand fighting unil daylight fol- Jowed without any advantage to either wide jers further report that t becoming alarmed, burned the Government buildings, preparatory to retreating. NKAMPFF'S t, via Muk- the Japa- on the were re- to the Jaj lert has been ad- several Ot the Jap- ter ve been changing GENERAL he road north- as far as the eye can s almost too utter IRYWHERE. or cry is heard— of the dying—only | the rude wh ponies’ hoofs e wounded have Chinese bl with and Epawy with pain, »strils. Here and there | » wounded men se, which with t the hapless man on whose | ront of the Russian | come a valley of death. | the debatable ground, neither side can remove its 1 vhich again the Japanese 1 the slope and up the hi e tower.” No qu: r given by either side. ed only in death. Here a stone, a mo- having stretched There lie two sheathed in each corpses two — cory days the R C cer g a heavy art the with the tower,” Japanese sapper work. At the niorning yesterday the shers heard a noise at th the tower.” forward they were, discovered heaping up & | this bittle is now clear. rpses as defenses. The Russian fleld tteries immediately opened fire and forced a cessation of the work. At dawn yesterday the Japanese at- tacked the Russian positions mnear Oubenepusa. The attackers were scarcely recognizable as valiant Jap- nese, so mechanieally did they move rward and with undying persistence ittack only to be thrown back. They »eated this at 10 o’clock in the marn- ter a preparatory artillery bom- ment, and reached the Russian where a bayonet fight en- the crucial moment General commanding the vanguard, ived on the scene with two ‘com- and turned the scale against the 0. i g the ant Colonel Hrostitsky of the al staff, who nevertheless re- ned at the front. Toward evening fight slackened. The Japanese employed an ingenious scheme to deceive the Russian artil- lery, whose shells, though having the | appeared to be exploding The officers were about 1 ec b: reported that the Japanese effect a_deception. ST. PETERSBURG, March 6.—It as just been learned that General {uropatkin has launched a blow at Field Marshal Oyama’s left center, just east of the raiflroad. The fighting is perate along almost the entire line. tkin's losses in killed and i up to last night are placed ). Oyama is thought to have 30,000. The Japanese, accord- the prisoners, are greatly ex- hausted. They repeat the statement that some of General Nogi’s men have not had any food for two days. The result of the greatest battle of modern times is expected to be deter- mined to-day or to-morrow. Two of the largest armies of recent times, both in men and guns, are now locked in a death struggle, and although Gen- eral Kuropatkin has evidently every preparation to cover his retreat by removing his accumulated stores and munitions northward, it is now the opinion of military men here that one side or the other cannot escape an overwhelming disaster. With both wings bent backward Kuropatkin's position appears to be desperate, but the issue is still in the balance. New of a victory for him is only regarde as possible by his breaking through the enveloping lines and news of a con- centrated offensive is hourly awaited. Unless Kuropatkin can strike and strike hard it is realized that he must lose. OYAMA'S STRATEGY. Field Marshal Oyama's strategy in He startied and amazed the War Office by marvelous daring of General Kuroki's advance against the extreme Russian | left and the series of blows delivered at the center, wherq no less than thir- | teen separate attacks have been aunched by the Imperial Guards ten miles east of Poutiloff Hill now t the left were intended to mask the real turning movement, which came like a bolt from a clear sky out of | the west. Kuropatkin fell into the trap. The situation seemed an exact | duplicate of that at Liaoyang and the | Russian commander in chief hactened > mass forces at meet Kuroki. Fri- day the whole situation was suddenly | reversed, when with lightning rapidity the Japanese turning operation began on the plain between the Hun and Liao rivers. | In order to succeed Oyama threw the neutrality of China to the winds. General Nogi, with his Port Arthur veterans, moved up the right bank of the Hun River and fell like an aval- anche upon the weakened Russian | right, doubling it back in confusion; the Japanese advance being co-ordi- nated with the advance straight from {the west of a Japanese column of | 40,000 men, which circled around or | through Chinese neutral territory. though rumors of the presence of the ! latter column westward of Mukden were circulated as long ago as Tues- $3.50 Shoes R educed Eosenthal’s ROSENTHAL'’S New Departure Beginning March Ist we re- duced all of our Ladies’ and Gentlemen’s $3.50 ¢Shoes to $3. Bear in mind that these are our regular $3.50 Shoes — the best quality and assort- ment Every pair warranted first- class and to be as represented. Money back if not entirely satisfactory. We offer every facility to make shopping pleasant, and will tion whether you buy or not. 107-113 Kearny Street 15 per pair. offered in the city. welcome your investiga- Shoe Store Near Post wounded was ! to experimental firing when | »ding small mines and even | throwing dirt in the air with spades to | made | the ! But it is | realized that the heavy blows | Al- | Battle Is Raging in Spite of Heavy Snowstorm. BAYONET IS USED Number Killed in Engagement Ex- ceeds 2000. WITH THE JAPANESE LEFT ARMIES, Thursday. March 2, yia Tientsin, March 6.—The Japanese Jeft armies are still continuing their ad-| vance, despite a heavy snowstorm, and are attacking Kujatsz and Ertaitaz. The Russian second line of defenses was captured during the night of March 1. The attacking and bombard- i | ing are of a furious nature and the Rus- sians are defending their positions | stubbornly. It is the evident intention + of the Japanese to crush the Russian iright flank along the main line, forc- |ing a general withdrawal across the | Hun River. Now that a foothold has! been secured in the Russian defenses, it is believed the Japanese can accom- | plish their object in a few days. | In the meantime the bombardment |of the center is continued with in- creased vigor. The capture of Huande | this morning wag the sensational event of the battle. So far small detach- ments of Japanese troops sent to reconnoiter the Russian positions ' ap- proached them under -cover of a heavy | snowstorm and suddenly charged, driv- | ing a superior force from the trenches |at the point of the bayonet and oc- | cupying them. The village of Chintan, captured on the night of March 1, is important, as | the piace is the end of the main defen- | sive works on the Russian right wing and gives the Japanese the best pos- sible pivot to swing northward the army now west of the Hun with the object of entirely enveloping the Rus- |slan right. The Japanese operations ¢ during the night of March 1 were ex- }tremely difficult. The Russian works | were very strongly defendéd by en- | tanglements and many machine guns |and the Russians used searchlights |and star shells, but in spite of these the Japanese, under cover of a heavy bombardment, rushed the works at the point of the bayonet, killing many of the Ruseians and imprisoning some in | the trenches. At Potietz the Japanese captured a strong redoubt at the foot of a small | hill. Unofficially the Japanese casual- | | ties are placed at 2000. The Russian | losses are believed to be greater. Dur- ing the operations on the left the Jap- | anese center has been heavily bom- | barding the Russian positions with | heavy guns, destroying villages and | defensive works. S ngeash ok MACARTHYR AT FRONT. | American General Preparing for Trip | to Battlefield. TOKIO, March 6.—Major General | MacArthur of the United States army, accompanied by his aid, Captain Par- | ker W. West of the Eleventh Cavalry, and by Captain John J. Pershing of the Fifteenth Cavalry will leave Tokio | | for the front March 9 as military ob- servers with the Japanese armies. United States Minister Lloyd C. Gris- | com is making arrangements for their | departure. - — day, Kuropatkin evidently was taken by surprise, possibly refusing to be- lieve that the Japanese would thus openly fling Chinese neutrality to the winds. At any rate, it was not until Saturday night that he was able to shift sufficient reinforcements west to stem the tide when the Japanese were within sight of Mukden. I JAPANESE EXHAUSTED. The latest advices are to the effect that the Japanese, exhausted by their | tremendov; efforts, had everywhere | stopped, and now if ever Kuropatkin’s hcur has come. The Japanese lines are extended over.several miles, while Kuropatkin’s are constantly contract-’ ing. Besides he has the advantage for | the offensive of operating in the in- terior of his lines. | Military critics declare Oyama has | not got enough superiority to take risks. According to the War Office, Oyama has not over 70,000 men in ex- cess of Kuropatkin, whose forces total about 340,000. Should Oyama suc- ceed the critics declare that he will prove himself to be a master of mill- tary science and establish a reputa- tion for military genius of the first magnitude. But unless he can com- pletely crush Kuropatkin's right they say Oyama is in imminent danger of having his own left cut off and de- stroyed. Kuropatkin's chance, the ‘War Office says, is to take the offen- | sive, as passive resistance would be | fatal. NEWCHWANG, March 6.—There is every Indication that the great Jap- anese movement for the envelopment of Mukden has so far met with over- whelming success and that the strong- hold of the Russians will prove an- other Sedan. In the past few days little has been heard from the fighting along the strongly fortified central positions, and it is believed that the Japanese center | is only required to hold its ground while the wings stretch far to the northward for the purpose of encircling the Russian flanks and threatening the | railway. General Nogi's Third Army from Port Arthur has advanced™Mar on the left wing and swept all before it. No- | gi's men are reveling in the fleld work, which they consider child's play' after the siege of Port Arthur. ————— London’s Street Cars, There are in London about 115% miles of tramways, of which eighty-eight miles have been purchased by the Lon- don County Council under the pro- vislons of the tramway act of '1870. The remalnder, about twenty-seven and a half miles, are still in the hands of various tramway companies. The tramways owned by the Council on the north side of the Thames (for- ty-eighty miles) are leased to the North Metropolitan Tramways Company for i a period of fourteen years, expiring in 1910; those on the side of the ‘Thames (forty miles) are operated by the Council {tself. The tramways act of 1870 provides that the local authority concerned may purchase compulsorily, after a period of twenty-one years from the date of the authorization by Parliament, any tramways constructed and operated by private companies.—Consular Reports. et N iy Ask for Log Cabin Bresd at grocers’ and branch bakeries; wholesale. 900 Dolores ‘st.* £ K OF THE JAPANESE Dead and Duing Sons of Nippon Piled Up and Used as Breastworks. Sibérian S Make MUKDEN, Sunday, March 5.—A cor- respondent has - just returned from spending the entire day, March 4, with the Russian vanguard on the right flank, where General Nogi s attacking desperately and especially at Niach- | piau, where there is a crossing of the Hun River, four miles below the rail- road. He says all the Japanese attacks on March 4 were repulsed, but only owing to the most heroic flghting, which was renewed this morning. The vast plain of the Liao and Hun River valleys presented a brilliant panor- amic scene. The day being clear and sunny the movement on both sides was distinctly visible except when clouds of yellow dust raised by the west wind swirled down and hid the shifting lines of infantry. Charge followed charge, attack, re- pulse and counter-attack, Russians and Japanese fighting viciously for every | foot of ground and clinging like grim | death itself to every Chinese cottage and mud wall, the only covers in the rich bottom land. Every village was the scene of struggles rivaling the fa- mous La Haye Sainte at Waterloo. One regiment of Siberian sharpshooters was led to the attack by Colonel Kou- korin, who was wounded in the foot February 28, and directed the opera- | tions from a litter. The villages of Sahouda, Yapu and Lanshanpu were taken and retaken several times, Lanshanpu finally pass- ing into the hands of the Japanese March 4. The Japanese used hand grenades emitting a suffocating gas. From the front and left“flank the re- ports are of an encouraging nature. A desperate attack of the Japanese to- day on Poutiloff Hill resulted most tragically to them, the Russian artil- lery turning lines of Japanese into heaps of bleeding bodies, which = the survivors quickly converted into breastworks, from which they were driven by a bayonet charge and the murderous fire of the artillery. The attack of the Japanese Imperial Guards’ division, according to reports from General Zassalitch, crumbled be- | fore the brilliant defense of the Siber- ian sharpshooters. On the left General Linevitch holds the hills stubbornly. It is even said that he has made a counter-attack and has retaken some redoubts and has advanced a few miles. I T, FAITH IN OYAMA. Japanese Believe Marshal Will Defeat Kuropatkin. TOKIO, March 7, 10 a. m.—All Japan is eagerly watching developments at the great theater of war in Manchuria. The people are confident that Field Marshal Oyama will defeat General Kuropatkin. Thé only question consid- ered is the extent and severity of the blow that he will inflict and its effect upon the course of the war, It is believed that the possession of Mukden and a line on the Hun River are already assured and many predict even a greater disaster for the Rus- slans. General Kuropatkin seems to be devoting his greatest energy to the protection of Fushun in order to pre- serve a line of retreat. He has sent masses of reserves there, The posi- tions east and south of Fushun have already been the scenes of the most bloody fighting. The operations of the Japanese left and part of the center continue to be successful. It is believed that the Japanese will succeed in cutting the railway north of Mukden. Various estimates of the losses al- ready sustained by the opposing forces are being made. One Tokio newspaper places the Russian loss at 25,000 and the Japanese at 10,000. The estimates are unreliable on account of the mea- gerness of the information at hand. The Japanese spoils of war promise to be heavy. St MEN IN FINE SPIRITS. Russians Undaunted by Death and Suffering. MUKDEN, Sunday, March 5.—An official report in the Army Messenger says: / “The southern position {s unchanged so far as Shakhe.” After acknowledging that the cen- tra! army has fallen back from Sinch- inpu, in order to contract the length of the line of battle connecting the inner positions, the Messenger says: “The spirits of the men are excel- lent. Marvelous composure is being displayed, considering the approaching crisis.” The paper admits the Russian losses ore heavy, but says the battle is going on successfully. All the roads leading from Manchiapu and the western plain wkich has suddenly been led by the battle are crowded Chinese refugees. Opposite Poutiloft Hill the Russians are. reported to have captured two ma- chine guns. —— CAPTURE JAPANESE. Russians Make Prisoners of 100 Brown Men. MUKDEN, March 6, 4:46 a. m.—The Russlans in their attack March 5, east- ward of Poutiloff Hill, tured about 100 Japanese prisoners. -ward the Japanese have continyed their at- tacks on the Kandolisan®positions, but the forces previously attacking Gaotu Pass have withdrawn southward. The Japanese attacks March 5 were every- where repulsed. The flercest fighting was on the right wing, extending from Machiapu to Nuesintun. The artillery duel continued all day throughout ‘the zone, stretching from Salingpu to Lu- guantain, —_— 3 RUSSIANS SANGUINE. Kuropatkin Satisfied With Conditions at Mukden. ST. PETERSBURG, March 6.—Gen- eral Kuropatkin, in a dispatch from the front, dated March 5, says: . “The situation at the Mukden front remains quiet. On the left flank, on the right bank of the Hun River, near Machiapu, the Japanese have R:nm‘d the offensive. energetically. o at- tacks were repulsed. 3 “The battle continues successfully northward of Machiapu. All are show- i harpshooters Brilliant Defénse ing the greatest bravery. In the cen- ter our positions on the Shakhe River, 50 far as Shahpao, are retained. Night attacks on Poutiloff: and Novgorod hills were beaten off. We counter- attacked this morning and captured two machine guns. In the Erdagon re- gion the enemy is also bombarding our positions. “The Japanese during the night at- tacked Kandolizan. All the assaults were repulsed. An attack on Gaotu Pass at 11 o’clock last night was beat- en off. The night was quiet in the ex- treme left flank.” FERGEC I JAPANESE DRIVEN BACK. Russians Effectually Block the Mik- ado’s Men. MUKDEN, March 6, noon.—Fighting began this morning as soon as the fog cleared and up to the present time has been increasing in mtensity. The Russians are gradually =foreing the Japanese north and west and have taken the villages of Tzuanvanche, Fantziatun, Tinvinchin and two others. General Kaulbars and his staff are on advanced positions, directing opera- tions. The Japanese artillery is pound- ing away flercely in the region of Ulinpa. Some shells from eight-inch fleld guns, charged with Chinese pow- der, are also expleding not far away and shrapnel is roaring. 2 Japanese prisoners are filing past toward the rear. They are ravenous with hunger. They say they started Wwith provisions for three days and were then ordered to make them last for sfx days. They had not eaten since Sun- day morning. General Kuropatkin has ordered that they be fed and they are eating as they march in. In the operation on Sunday in the district of Madzapu and Miuch- iatun the Japanese were repulsed. The attack by the Japanese division west of Hushitai was at first successful, but Russian reserves arrived and checked the Japanese. In the villages of Sandepas and Shakhe the Japanese seized the oppor- tunity, while the Russian corps were changing front, to furlously endeavor to break the line. The Japanese suc- ceeded in thrusting a wedge in the in- terval, but Russian artillery concen- trated a terrible fire of S-inch guns upon the attacking force and the Jap- anese were finally driven out with heavy loss. The Japanese made several night at- tacks, especlally at Madzyapu, which ‘were unsuccessful. P T s U THOUSANDS WOUNDED. Russian War Office Places Figure at 12,000. ST. PETERSBURG, March 7, 3:15 a. m.—The War Office estimates the num- ber wounded in the battle of Mukden at 12,000, including 234 “officers, but makes no statement regarding the number of dead. This undoubtedly is a conservative statement. The Japan- ese losses, according to the same source of information, are estimated at 30,000. The optimistic tone of the war feor- respondence is reflected in military cir- cles here. It is considered that, even if General Kuropatkin has not suc- ceeded in delivering a crushing blow at the Japanese, he has at least insured the possibility of withdrawal,which was greatly jeopardized by the operations of General Nogi and General Kurokl. The result of General Kuropatkin's reported counter attack west of the railroad, which {f successful, would drive a wedge between the western army and the Japanese forces on the Shakhe River, is awaited with keen anxiety. It is felt that this is the op- portunity which he misused at Liao- vang and which deprived the Russians of victory when it had almost been won. —gaan o READY TO ATTACK. Japanese Are Preparing for Decisive Battle. SAKHETUN, March 6, 2:45 p. m.— According to reports just received the Japanese have advanced to attack along the whole line. Fighting has been in progress on the right flank of the Russian army near the imperial tombs since morning, but at this hour it appears to be lessening, and the roar of artillery indicates that the fighting is gradually sweeping farther and farther from Mukden. Several regiments stationed near outiloff and Novgorod Hills Sunday night attacked and captured Japanese trenches, approaching under cover of arkness. The fighting was sharp and the Jap- anese used hand grenades, but finally were expelled at dawn. The weather to-day is superb. o RS WILL INCREASE FORCE. LONDON, March 7.—The correspond- ent at St. Petersburg of the Times, telegraphing March 6, says: “Reassuring dispatches to-night claim that the Japanese already have used all their reserves. 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