Wo translate the following graphic account of the Yala battle and events immediately preceding: and following the same, a narrated by the pen of a Chinese who happened to be at Antung during those eventful days, which may serve to supplement the accounts that have already appeared in this paper. The account is taken from the "Sinwénpao," and the writer of it is an occasional correspondent of that paper.
The Japanese first crossed over the Yalu river on the 25th of April. Before that date the. opposing: forces had a number of skirmishes of varying importance. On one ocasion'the Rassians used Iaunches to cart troops across to an-island in the mii out the movements of the Japanese on opposite or Corean side of the river. Ti stream' with tha intention of only about scatter. Russian officers were seen to draw their swords in trying to head off their panic-stricken soldiers which they subsequently managed to do and fortunately the affair being @ false alarm there was not much harm meantime, also, some Japanese torpedo steamed to the upper reaches of the Yalu far as Santo and Langt'ou, apparently to ascertain the depth of the size am in the neighbourhood. While this was going on the Russians were entrenched along both On another occasion during Tunke Sides of the great highway (the Peking Road) ready to receive the Japanese if they stream which being perosived landed. The Russians remained in their by Chinese sampan-men near the banks they trenches from 6 p.m. of that day to about started forward to take possession of the 5 am, of the next day. But apparently junks. The Russian sentinels on the banks the Japanese bad no intention of landing as the Russians seemed to anticipate. was not until the early morning of the 0th April that neral movement to d ver to the right banks could be observed in' the Japanese lines. On that morning the Russians in the fort on the hill, in the rear of (Mosquito ditch) got hold of four junks into which two jeers and forty soldiers em-'Antung city, observed four Japanese torpedo barked with the intention of spying out the oats stealing up the reach whereupon the former hurriedly began a cannonade at the Corean shore. One of the junks was worked three by the torpedo boats, but the shots from the fort, could not oven reach the river, falling in the rear of the house of a man named Kua who resided some distance from the river Tank, The torpedo-boats steamed to the entrance of Szotaokon and then stopped. After a while they steamed quietly away. Previous to this the firing of rifles and artillery between Wiju (Japanese side) and Huerhsban (Russian sidle) had been con-General, Mi, (? Mischensko) Yinuing incessantly for several days and, it was apparent that the belligerents were using ae on the top of o hill on the their best efforts at an artillery duel with if the Fiver, using his glasses at the opposite side trying to the guns of their respective disposal.
forces. Five Japanese Hence from noon till night the country was covered with a canopy of smoke thick enough
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