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Tokio, 21st June.
The Battle of Tehlisze.
Just as the capture of Kinchou about four weeks ago carried a great moral lesson, the battle of Tehlisze is of extreme strategic importance. It was waged ina mountainous and' enclosed district and was not a good position for defence because retreat presented difficulties. On the other hand, to attack it was not easy, and the Russians probably expected that the Japanese would move slowly and occupy the various positions by degrees. The Japanese, however, moved with remarkable celerity and used every section of their forces. A later confidential report states that the Russians were preparing to continue their down. ward movement towards Kaiping and Hsiungyaochéng, but this defeat appears practically to have demolished Gen: Kuropatkin's programme for the relief of the Kinchou peninsula. The Japanese recognise that the Russian soldiers are not so weak as predicted by some arm-chait critics. "They have fought stubbornly on the Yalu, at Kinchou, and ut Teblisze, and at the last. mentioned place they made several counter-attacks. The "heavy casualties among the higher Russian officers are probably due to the inferior discipline of their troops, and they have therefore to run risks themselves.
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