20 Sep Headline: Japan’s Great Armies Marching on Mukden
[Taken from a German paper] The Japanese are advancing slowly with a broad front…
The Russian troops have recovered their spirits.
Chinese officials are suspected of secretly aiding the Japanese.
….the air of the vicinity of Liao-Yang being poisoned by exhalations from thousands of unburied bodies.
24 Sep Headline: http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?res=9502E5D8123AE733A25756C2A96F9C946597D6CF
26 Sep Headline: Kuropatkin Loses Supreme Command
The Emperor [Tsar] is personally convinced that the political as well as the military prestige of the empire is at stake, and that every other consideration must give way before the exigencies of the war.
The resources of the empire in men and money must be drained, if necessary, in order to turn the scale and vindicate the power of Russia.
The somewhat lengthy article seems to explain that the Tsar is simply adding troops to the point of having two armies with the former general the head of one instead of combined.
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