Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 108, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 September 1904 — SCENE OF THE GREAT LIAO-YANG BATTLE. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

SCENE OF THE GREAT LIAO-YANG BATTLE.

. The-city--of, Liao-Yang is probably the oldest in Mjinqhjiria. .Jt is sltji;, a.ted' on the, Ta'i-Tsu-Ho whichstons into'the Huh/a large of the Lidb. 'lt is ,f about ’forty mileg yi a direct line xvesiTSOuthwestof Lden.l The out^r ,: face •'aiuDbattleiugijts of tlje Jiigh are bard brick, inner faces of walls a cir.cumfe're.nce of ov t er.! ten,*, miles. The population is about 50100(5, tniong whbiri afld niahy Chinese with ajgpodly nninll.er of>.M:int-hus. The imper&l-' highway from Mukden'to New-Chwang and , Arthur separates herb .from the old ro>d..to Korea. Liao-Yiuig was in ancient .times a gr§jit Ko-4 . ream city.-but was destroyed by die Chinese and became the first’capltai, ’of tlie Liao or Iron dynasty. Tire railway runs east a fid’west’past the city; toward Mukden it g&es northeast, and ...from. Short-Shan south-southwest The .scene of the battle between the Japanese and .Russians is'on the.plain east’and south of. LiadiYajig. ' l . Kuropatkin's trenches are eight miles from the city.