Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 112, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 23 September 1904 — War News in Brief. [ARTICLE]

War News in Brief.

Russian officials state that the loss to Kuropatkin’s army at Liaoyang was less than 17,000 men, 4,500 being killed. The Japanese are said to be levying taxes in Manchuria and to have taken entire control of finances and customs in captured territory. Much bushwhacking is going on upon the road sotrth of Mukden, and many Russian soldiers have been killed from the fields of Chinese corn. Oyaina reports that a large Russian force faces him south of Mukden and that the Russians are fortifying both banks of the Liao river at Tie Pass. Chinese bandits again are active, frequently attacking the Russian railroad line north of Mukden. Bushwhacking causes constant losses to the Russians. Information coming from an authoritative source in St. Petersburg is that the Russians will winter at Harbin, but the fact that there probably will be two months of good weather for military operations before extreme cold weather sets In leaves room for a revision of this purpose in the light of events that may transpire.