Kuropatkin Wishes to Resign.
Pleads Yiant of Rest, Over 200,000 Men, 500 Guns, and 20 Colours Lost. (Received March lli, .11.20 p.m.) LONDON, March US. The 'limes' St. .Petersburg correspondent slu-i.e:-; t'luit General Kuropatkin has reached Tiding with the remnant army, aivd asks the Czar's permission to resign, alleging urgent need for physical and mental rest. | Official despatches record the loss of ."">OO guns', 20 colours, and ovur 2U0.U00 men. | Though the worst is withheld, the public is .stupitied, as lasL week's despatches related 0111'y the succesjses. Had Kuropatkin ordered theretreat on the Bth, as first intended, !he would have averted disaster when he retreated. On the ,I.oth the Japanese swarmed from east and west, : and placed batteries commanding the line of retreat, Hy sacrificing his guns, Kuropatkin saved part of the force, though the retreat meant "sauve tjiii peut.'' The first of the fugitives reached Tieling within thirjty hours,.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7762, 14 March 1905, Page 3
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150Kuropatkin Wishes to Resign. Taranaki Daily News, Volume XLVII, Issue 7762, 14 March 1905, Page 3
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