March 2.—The Russian flanks are pushed backward and Kuropatkin’s entire army continues to retire before the onslaughts of the Japanese.
March 3.—General Kuropatkin is in retreat toward Tie Pass and a portion of Oyama’s army reaches a point eleven miles west of Mukden.
The battle around Mukden continues, the results generally favoring the Japanese.
March 4.—General Kuropatkin’s left flank suffers and his position grows still more critical.
March 5.—A fierce artillery engagement rages throughout the day and Marshal Oyama continues his flanking movement.
March 6.—General Kuropatkin is hemmed in and vigorously attacks the Japanese left centre. Marshal Oyama relentlessly tightens his lines in an endeavor to trap his foe.
General Foreign News
February 7.—As a result of the massacre of Russian citizens on January 22, the Social Democratic Party of Russia calls on workmen to march on the Czar’s palace with arms in their hands instead of ikons and petitions.
Father Gapon, the Russian revolutionary leader, is reported to have escaped to Switzerland.
General Trepoff, the “man of iron” who has been placed at the head of the police system at St. Petersburg, threatens to close the universities because of the revolutionary sentiment there existing.