THE FALL OF LIAO-YANG.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVI, Issue 208, 6 September 1904, Page 3

THE FALL OF LIAO-YANG.

ENTIRELY IN JAPAN'S HANDS.

A COSTLY VICTORY.

LONDON, September 4. t The following report has been received from Field-Marsunal the Marqtoesa Oyama, Commander-in-Chief: " The attack waft renewed this morning, and Iflao-yang fell entirely, .into our hands. " The casualties were many." RUSSIAN GENERAL WOUNDED. ARMY CORPS REPORTED TO BE CUT OFF.

■*7-''- : - LONDON, September 4. General Sakharoff reports that the RuEsSana on Friday assaulted the height, at Sky-wan-tun, and after « desperate fight captured the whole chain. They then discd% r ered the Japanese in great force, extending from Yental to Tai-tse. During the retreat General Stakelberg's First Siberians extricated General Orloff's detachment, which was being threatened with annihilation after ah unsuccessful attack on the Japanese flank. General Orloff was seriously wounded, -'and the Russians lost 8000 men,

St; Petersburg intelligence etatesi that rumours are abroad that General Stakelberg's 25,000 man of the' Mrst. Siberian Army Corps havej been cut off west of liao-yang. THE HORRORS OF WAR. SERIOUS INDICTMENT AGAINST MEDICAL STAFF. LONDON, September 4. Russian papers Jtave published horrible details of the needless sufferings of the sick and wounded. Medical necessaries, and even clothes, are unavailable.

THE NEWS IN TOKIO. POPULACE CELEBRATING THE ' .VICTORY, LONDON, September 4 An immense procession is parading the streets of Tokio, shouting *' Banzai 1" (equivalent to the British -Hurrah),"

KUROPATKIN. LOSING CASTE. KUROKI AMD NOZU PRESSING RUSSIANS HARD. . -pf-.-r. ; ___ (Rflßßlvea Septemlher 5, 10.44 p.m.) '■ : \ LONDON, September 5. Router's St. Petersburg correspondent' states that the evacuation of Ltao-yang has greatly shaken confl*nce In General Kuropatkln ; but the military still consider he did the utmost Ira could under the cirftances.

The forilßcaitions at Mukden cannot t9 compared with those at Liao»aa& ■ «ad it la unlikely that the former will be seriously defended.

•During the severe fighiting towards the Uao-yaagv—Mukden railway the Japanese captured at the bayonet point a strongly fortified position Westward of Sik-wan-tien.

. General Kuroki's' right wing is now riear Yen-tai, and General Nozu is pressing the Russians from the north.

: PANIC-STRICKEN SOLDIERS. KtoBOKTS SUDDEN MOVE TO . . THE WESTWARD. '(Received September 5, 10.44 p.m.) ; LONDON, September 5. . An, unofficial message ascribed GenJ- ami Orion"s losses to panic, owing to en unexpected fire 'from Japa- ~— - nese concealed in tall grasses as the (detachment was retreating. The recent lobscs of guns are attributed to the muddy roads rendering H impossible to remove them. The Marquess Oyama, prior to reporting Sunday morning's occupation of; Liao-yanig, telegraphed that the Russians on Saturday burned the storeihouses near the station. General Kuroki, leaving a force to protect the right flank, swung sharply westward in order to roach the railway and envelope liao-yang. ' The Standard's correspondent reports that Kuroki, up to nine on Saturday night, had not completely succeeded in occupying the heights commanding the railway. The enemy to that quarter were steadily reinforced "from Mukden. The bulk of General Kuropatkin's troops may possibly escape north.

A CORRESPONDENT'S OPINION. RUSSIA BEATEN BEFORE A BLOW WAS STRUCK.

(Received September 5, 11.28 p.m.) BRISBANE, September 5. "Commander Colquhoun, who lepTesentod the Times in the naval warfare off Port Arthur, has returned. iHe predicts that the Russian defeat -at Liao-yang will lead to overtures 'for peace within a couple of months He questions whether Russia could teed half a million men in Manchuria. He considers that Russia was beaten before a blow was struck. Bar strategy in the first instance \yras bad, and the disposition of her Lforces wretched.

SIMULTANEOUS ATTACKS

JAPANESE DEAD HEAPED UPON

THE FIELD,

(Received September 6, 0.50 a.m.) LONDON, September 5. A Russian despatch says that oi

Friday the fighting began simultaneously on both bonks of tho Tai-tse River. The Japanese, in superior numbers, advanced down towards the Yentai mines. Twelve Russian 'battalions courageously sustained the attack all day, but were ultimately compelled to yield and proceed to positions to the westward. The Japanese on the left bank continuously bombarded the fortifications. The Russians then made a counter-attack, occupying several villages between them and their original positions. They found the slopes and plain occupied by the Japanese strewn with corpses, some being heaped up. The Russian losses were also heavy.