. Review of reviews and world's work. ain road towardthe railway station and theYen-Tai coal mines. Herehe was faced by GeneralOku, who was guarding therailway with the Japa-nese left, and General Nodzu, who was guard-ing the mines and the main road with theJapanese center. The Russian generals chiefeffort would appear to have been to breakthrough the Japanese right flank, commandedby General Kuroki, and in the battle which fol-lowed, and which raged for eleven days, Gen-eral Kuropatkins plan evidently had been topierce the Japanese lines by breaking throughbetween General Kuroki and General N
. Review of reviews and world's work. ain road towardthe railway station and theYen-Tai coal mines. Herehe was faced by GeneralOku, who was guarding therailway with the Japa-nese left, and General Nodzu, who was guard-ing the mines and the main road with theJapanese center. The Russian generals chiefeffort would appear to have been to breakthrough the Japanese right flank, commandedby General Kuroki, and in the battle which fol-lowed, and which raged for eleven days, Gen-eral Kuropatkins plan evidently had been topierce the Japanese lines by breaking throughbetween General Kuroki and General their side, the Japanese commanders triedtheir favorite game of flanking, the center armybearing the brunt of the Russian attack, whileGeneral Oku, on the left, and General Kuroki,on the right, endeavored to roll up the Rus-sian flanks. In fact, General Kurokis forcesapparently had been lost to view for severaldays, having made such a wide detour to theeastward in their flanking movement. The heavy series of battles extending. _ j Manq cAta iur\ The First Stage a Busman Chech. over the eleven days from October(i to 17 were variously referred to inthe dispatches as the battle of the Shakhe River, of Ven-Tai, and, as Marshal Oyama prefers tocall it, of Shaho, which is presumably anotherform of Shakhe, the river along which mostof thefighting look place. This battle, or series of batties, was distinguished by heavier fighting thanthat at Liao Vang, and the losses, according toreports received up to October 20, aggregated BATTLEFIELD OF THE SHAKHE (SHA-HO) RIVER AND THE VICINITY OF MUKDEN. 70,000, of which the Russian share was probablyfully 50,000. There were 4,500 Russian deadleft in front of General Kurokis army Japanese also suffered severely. Nodzusarmy alone lost over 5,000 killed. From themass of conflicting reports published from dayto day, most of which referred to single , and movements of troops as victoriesor defeats for the entire army,
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