Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 36, Number 116, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 7 October 1904 — “JAPS” TAKE DA PASS. [ARTICLE]

“JAPS” TAKE DA PASS.

Important Point Forty-five Miles from Mukden Captured. The Japanese at last have begun the offensive. They have captured Da Pass and are pressing on Gen. Kuropatkin’s left flank. It is believed the Russians abandoned Da Pass without serious resistance. Several other passes of the Da range east of Bentsiaputze, twenty miles southeast of Mukden, are also in the hands of Japanese. Kuropatkin evidently is drawing in his forces to the less mountainous country northwest, where he may decide to give battle. Meanwhile sharp fighting is regarded as imminent southeast of Mukden, whence the Japanese are expected to deliver their main attack, the flank movement from the west being of secondary Importance. x Da Pass, or Ta Pass, meaning Great Pass, is situated about forty-five miles southeast of Mukden and about the same distance northeast of Liaoyang. It is about twenty-five miles south of the Hun river. The Japanese attacked Da Pass, which was occupied by the troops of Gens. Mishtchenko and Sanisonoff, Sept. 24, but, according to dispatches from Harbin, were repulsed twice.