May—the month of the Boys' day isseid to bea lucky month for Japan and to have been the date of numerous Japanese successes against the foreign invader of the past. Whatever influence these associations may have had it is most certain that the Japanese " boys" had a brilliant May day this year across the Yalu, where they splendidly begun their task of rolling up the Muscovites towards their base. The forward movements of the Japanese First Army under General Baron Kuroki, by way of effecting the passage of the Yalu, commenced on the 26th of April.
The First Objective was the sceupation of Kiulionchéng, a walled city, but in order to take this it was necessary to storm and carry the surrounding highlands where eight guns (9}-cent.) commanded the town. At dawn on the Ist inst., the army, supported by strong artillery, commenced an attack on these high' positions, and by half-past eight, so well were the operations executed, these fortified hills were rushed and the enemy was
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