Show JAPS CROSS THE YALU THIS MARKS BEGINNING GINNING Bt OF BLOODY LAND engagements after five dayt days of fighting the first japanese army forced a crossing of yau yali river and put ru russians to ali flis L advices advises in tokia state that the twelfth division ot of the japanese army forced a crossing of 0 the yalu balu river above eiju lust just before dawn saturday morning the second pontoon bridge across the river near was completed at 8 9 saturday night and th the arpe sai guards 0 of the second division crossed during the night ight after live days daya of fighting largely with artillery the first japanese army under tinder general kuroki has forced fl a crossing of 0 the yalu balu river and with a gallant infantry charge covering a frontage fron tago 0 of tour four miles it drove the russians from chi achl tien chong and the heights heli slits on the right bank 0 of the iho or alda aida river which enters the yalu balu irom from the north a almost opposite eiju the japanese turned the left flank of the russian position and in the battle they swept away the no new front interposed by the russians to check their onward movement the tha present position of the he japanese Is a dominating one and they may force orco tho the abandonment ot of the defenses erected ere clcil by the russians Kus at autong and other points lower down the river it II la Is claimed that in the recent engagements gage ments the russians lost 8 SOO 0 0 men while the tha japanese lost men |