Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 37, Number 23, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 March 1905 — TIE PASS IS TAKEN. [ARTICLE]

TIE PASS IS TAKEN.

Japanese March Into Stronghold Following a Bloody Battle North. Tie Pass has been occupied by tire victorious forces of the Mikado, and Kuropatkin's army, disorganized, hungry, and beaten, has entered upon its long, hopeless flight over the 300 starving miles to Harbin. It is generally believed in Tokio that this last defeat of the general of the Czar is, in all probability, the practical finish of his beaten army, and though but little news of a definite nature has been received beyond the bare announce-* nient of the capture of Tie pass, it is recognized that the task of transporting such a beaten and disorganized mass across the desert to Harbin is one beyond the power of any general With but IW.OOO men left who are fit for active service and with a number of

wounded equally as large, it is easy for the Japanese to see that their victoryflushed armies have the Russians practically at their mercy and the population of Tokio is already eagerly awaiting what they believe is sure to Come —the news that Oku. Nogi and Kuroki have hemmed in the fleeing Kuropatkin on the .desert beyond Tie pass, that the Russian star has forever set in the far East and that the flower of Japan's blood and tears has come to the fruition of supremacy. The Russians burned the greater portion of their stores and supplies before evacuating Mukden. The Japanese occupied Ringching March 13. Ringching. or Yenden, is situated about eighty miles almost due east of Mukden.