Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — LINE OF KUROPATKIN'S RETREAT. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

LINE OF KUROPATKIN'S RETREAT.

The map shows the location of Tiding, or Tie Pass, whence the Japanese dislodged the retreating Russians after severe fighting. Tiding is an important walled town, and is considered to-be a strategic point of great value. It is about thirty-five miles north of Mukden. The next large city north of Tiding is Kaiyuen, ffliiriy miles away. Nogi’s army is believed to have made the attack from the west that compelled Kuropatkin to evacuate Tiding. It will be remembered that Nogi’s turning operations west of Mukden practically surprised the Russians, and also compelled the retreat from that city. A few days ago Kuropatkin telegraphed that the Japanese had procured new levies, as several of the men killed were found to be wearing new uniforms. Military experts are inelined to believe that the fighting north of Tiding is being done by fresh troops from Japan, and that the exhausted and harassed Muscovite forces are in great peril. Kuropatkin’s retreat northward, it is said, may become a parallel to the disastrous retreat of Napoleon from Moscow. The stars in the map mark the location of towns also mentioned in connection with the victorious operations of the Japanese.