We have to thank the Consul-General for Japan for the following official telegram received by him on Saturday Tokio, 24th September.
One detachment of our army which advanced from the vicinity of Hsienchang (about 25 miles N-E. of Saimachi) on the 20th inst., attacked the enemy, consisting of. one company of infantry, a -cortain number of cavalry, and m=chine gum, who were at Taling Pass (about 20 wiles N.W. of Hsienchang), and another consisting of one battalion of infantry, 500 cavalry, with six guns. and one machine gun, at Sanlungyao (about 25 miles NW. of Heienchang), and repulsed them towards the north, The enemy left nineteen dead. We took a certain quantity of spoils, Our casualties are insignificant.
London viii Bombay, 25th September, In accordance with a decision by General Kuropatkin, Major-General Orloff has been recalled to St. Petersburg without further enquiry and dismissed. from the army.
General Kuropatkin reports that there was no fighting on Thursday or Friday last.—Zeuter.
Tokio, 25th September.
Newly arrived troops from Russia are replacing the detachments ov outpost duty south of Mukden.—Our own correspondent,
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