Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 91, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 8 July 1904 — JOIN FOR BIG FIGHT. [ARTICLE]

JOIN FOR BIG FIGHT.

Kurokl and Oka Ready to Spring; at Kuropatkin’s Throat. Lieut. Gen. Sakhnroff’s dispatch confirms the belief that the great decisive battle of the campaign between Gen. Kuropatkin’s main army and the armies of Gens. Knroki and Oku is imminent. The three armies probably aggregate 300,000 meu and their outposts are in touch all along the line. The Japanese evidently

tried to draw Kuropatkin as far south as possible, holding out as au incentive a check to the advance of Oku’s main army. Meantime Oku swung sharply to the. eastward to join Kuroki toward the Ghapnn pass, Kuroki at the same- time moving a strong force by the right flank toward Halcheng. The main Japanese advance continues along the main Feng-Wang-Cheug-Llao-Ynng road, avoiding the Mao-Tien pass by a detour to the northward. The advance in all points is being attended by constant skirmishing. Nothing is known of the exact point at which Kuropatkin’s main force is concentrated, though it is believed that a large part of the LiaoYang force has been moved to a point between Kin-Ohau and Ta-Tche-Kiao. According to a dispatch from Ta-Tche-Kiao a large force had pushed southward from that place against Oku. While Kuropatkin is thus extending himself, the Japanese, with great mobility, seem to be trying to concentrate for die purpose of striking the Russians in the flank and rear.