RUSSIA LOSES 65,000 MEN.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7761, 13 March 1905, Page 2

RUSSIA LOSES 65,000 MEN.

CommQDic«tloo Cot Off. "1 AM HLHttOI'NDEU.KUIttU'ATKI.V UKCKLIiHS. (Uccvired March 12, -l 23 n m ) LOXDOX, Maw* it. I P to fhursday night the Kutminn are olttciully estimated „, 0f,.Telegjaphio ami r u il« U v lonnuuntcations were finally .severed late on | Thursday. I j Uenerul Kuroputkins latest tues- J I sage to the Czar, ri'-esuumbly tukca -J .to Tiding by jucssonger. utervk said ■ '1 am surrounded." .'-Mm The Times' Si. I'cverbbiirg corre*. MM ponde.ut reports Hint the genetal MM | staff stales thut Kaubars. reinforced ™ ( by several of Lmicvhch's and BUcorps, withstood General ,Oku s onslauglits north of the Ifu* ho Itiver. I Kuropatkln ijcrsunally directed the battle, freely exposing himself. Dun. J bruvsky s eor|>s were engaged all I Wednesday night north of Filling, A and sustained terrible loaves. Tht Mm I Seventeenth Corps went to their «up> MM port, iiut were repulsed bv the J*> MM pauesc. MMm | Kuropatkln liojhxl to extricate tttmWM urmy uudcr cover of a dust but tieucrul Oku, rosiiinlng the tuck, drew the iw»l or the ltustlt^^H The Saynil»' and Wanclieiitan tmwMm fuirs hciv? terrible fighting, the jmuesc succeeded in cutting I'uilwuy seven miles north of 'dun, ulso shelling the Mandan^^^l