Show BURN AFTER LOSING A BATTLE i Vf ti Japanese Jap eArm Army y the b I Yalu YaI f a After a Desperate Fight f tn O M n and tIes the Japan we Beginning of o 11 y Land Lind m I May 2 II 1111 a m The Russians Russia ris were iere forced for to abandon yesterday They burned the town and retreated to Feng Fenz Hoan Cheng Chen V VV V The Japanese now control c the tRe estuary of ol the V i at St May 7 1 iThe The general Beneral staf account of th tM em emike tIM tbS Tain Yalu river nver today tody is aa II a follows follow V At 4 this thia morning Japans lapu fleW field batteries with forty funa Ena opened a terrific terric Are on Oil our at and aBd on a ear Mr ur troop posted po near Dear c V Tha Th overwhelming overwhelm lag superiority of the th J Japanese in ill artillery and ad the ts hawry 1 their fire are re inflicted on our occupying these th po positions i I made it clear des to General that tbt tWit it ft was waa impossible We to 10 hed Turen T Tr T abon Consequently the troops w r ordered to retire rolt Tue while still atUl holding the road rd When General dispatched bed b telegram the troops V were retiring in good order from front Tur sad and Jaa to their i second position and the battle batUe was continuing at and ad a adV ng V Tokie Toki May Xay 7 2 7 a m rnA aA A supplemental report from General Kuraki I covering Sundays da fighting 78 y i The Russians wade made two stands stan The 7 strength l included all of ef eft oft t the t third two regiments Bents fel of the tM sixth division one cavalry bri brigade Brit t gade a about t forty guns gun many rifles rines much ammunition I move more than twenty officers and many noncommissioned officers and aDd won V aa prisoner I am ant informed that Generals and i w re wounded Ow Or casualties number num m c about seven eaven hundred and aa tIN the Ins JUia 1 V ian loos o is morn more than IaD sight eight Jat hundred men j 4 1 e 0 TOKIO T May lIay I 1 2 p Po m Advices T I received here state that the Twelfth division of the Japanese T pa army tweed forced a 1 crossing crO of or the Talu Yalu river liver above just juat before dawn Saturday morning The second pon pen pontoon pontoon toon bridge aero across the river near Wi ju was completed at 8 S ocI k Satur Saturday Saturday Saturday day night and the imperial guards curd of or orthe the Second division crossed during the night lI ht The Russian Rusian left flank has bee been turned t and a general attack began at V dawn dawa today Sunday by all the Jap Tap Japanese anese aae batteries MUerle on the south side of the river and a flotilla of gunboats co N cooperating Cop NI I operating op with the tM anny army The Tb Japan Tapan Japanese ese eq Ie have ave t the advantage of positions po V awl and numbers and are confident of rout routing routIne routing ing Ine tine the t enemy V The TIlle Japanese today captured Chiu Cheng ten miles m e north of An Ant t u which WJk l 1st a regarded nIed V aa the key V to 0 t the Russian Itan position on the right t V 11 Ink bank of tINt the he Talu river It is III expect I rd Id that The Russians R ns will retreat ret t to tot J t Feng n ii hen which w is i aa Sn the I road to Liao Yang Tang j If After er live days of or lighting fighting large largey 1 y with the first Jap JP Japanese I anese anel army under General Kuroki has hasI I forced a craning u of ot the Talu YaJu river and today with a gallant infantry charge charae covering a frontage of ot four miles it drove the tile Russians Rans from Chi Tien I c heng bene and the heights on the right I hank bank of the Iho Tho or Aida Akin river which I t liters cuter the Vain Yalu from the north almost I opposite oPP The Japanese turned the left flank fla of the Russian position and in the battle of today they t y swept away the new front interposed by the Jh to tel check heck their onward onard move mote movement meet ment TIle The present of the Japanese is a dominating one and they may mayre I force re the abandonment of the defenses V I i reefed by the Russians at Antune and J J other points lower down don the river V General Kuroki began the movement 1 on Tuesday b by ordering a detachment of the imperial guards division ta t seize the I 1 island of Kurtto which is In the Vain Yalu alu above and a detachment of V the Second division to io eixe eise the island 4 IC r which is 8 situated below iJu Japs la Occupy laland The Tile detachment of Ute the imperial guards Juard met with some ome resistance but it succeeded in clearing the enemy out ou Hid lIld occupied laland The Rue Rus Russians R Ria ia abandoned the tile island of when attacked by the detachment of or orthe the Second division The TM actual losses lones sustained by the detachment dt of the Imperial guards is to ton n t known knon aa as there to Is an n error in that i 11 w rt of the message eap received here re ie referring ref ferring niDe f It to the number killed but t nine f the detachment were severely and andi F i x een were ere slightly wounded The t of the Second seo d division I VV took the island of sue sus susi sueI l i Iti lined no losses V During Diring these there movements on the i Unde the Russians Russian opened fire flie on the Japanese J a with eight S centimetre tre MI g us from a hill behind Chiu Tien heng and aDd two guns muis which vf w fTC fre re mounted on the bank of the river rivert ji li t Kosae Kosas where here the Russians Ru lan seemed t have he established ed their headquarters OIK c I ne battery of Japanese artillery which had laad taken a position on a hill bill hilli billt if i t tile the th east of fired three volleys a it I 1 Kosan and at noon of Tuesday the I Iun un rl behind Chin Tien I I hell heng shelled wounding one Japanese Ja soldier with shrapnel I Bombardment meL On n Wednesday the Russians au resumed i I It I V the t he bombardment on Who firing C at in int t throughout the day The Jap lap i I me tire ilI n se ee artillery did not respond to t this V I General KuroKi hUH has received reports to tOl the effect lt that tt the Russians are arc for tor tort forI lying t I A the UIe heights on OR the right ht honk bank banki honkI ok of I If i the Iho tho river These new defences i re o f declared to 10 extend este from rom Chin Chiu Tien Tie lung 4 through the village villa of Makao to toK 1 K V hoko shoko a distance cl of 4 three and Dd a quarter fer miles The Russians resumed their born bona l on Thursday but bat t it was wu i generally ineffective V i v Subsequently General Kuroki tr ar try y red two companies eom nies of the imperial 1 j to cross croy the Tab Talu and make a an aI az z I n I n along alone the left bank ak of I At e Iho lito u for fir the purpose e of discovering t I p e character of the Russian fc I 1 t ms ins along al the heights on the right t I t uk of the river The Japanese laD for fore e aneed toward Kosan sod and then die dla c 1 J 4 a small detachment to the vii J 1 J I e where a party of Russians I was wasI I In the engagement e t which i I I owed lowed five were ere killed The Thep l p i 1 Il salons Asians shelled the reconnoitering t ty tJ y from trona an emplacement in the thela theIn la In I the Ue southeastern part of Toe Tos Tosi i 10 o 0 Thu lire fire was u without V eRect effect Artillery 1 Opened Viz i R B an It artillery Ullery on OIl o tile the IU be b t 1 lC Ja l Tien Cheng fl a firing at s sV Ia V 1 e again opened on en W n tile J Jon I t on nag Hair Pa Two mm M Ami LISI A BATTlE ATTLE Continued from fro Page 1 J of nt and to the south of I i where bere some BOme Japanese e batteries 4 A lad ad taken position This Ibia firing contin continued 1 tied u Into Thursday night and General Genera 1 Kuroki repots repeats that while it was W met ineffective it i his preparations for tor foran toran foran an attack The n Russians resumed the shelling of or on Friday but the Japanese guns did not reply r The Twelfth division of the Japanese Japan army anny was YU chosen to make the that first crossing c of ot the Yalu Talu It began an its IUt preparations on Friday by driving the theR theT T Russians R from their position on OR the thet bent of ed t the river opposite which hi Is eight bt miles above and nd the point selected ec ed for tor the crossing ero This division constructed a pontoon bridge over the river and ad at 3 Satur Saturday Saturday day morning it began bean crossing The en entire tire division passed over the river dur dul during dulIn lug ing In the day and by 6 S Saturday i ev it was WaR in ia the position assigned to It tor for the battle batUe of Sunday The movement of the Twelfth Jap lap Japanese lapa anese a division was wu covered by the Sec See Second ond on regiment re ment of field 1114 artillery and an another another other regiment of heavy guns PM Jul of Satt ri s sAt At twenty minutes to 11 ii Sat Bat Saturday Saturday morning the Russian Rn artillery posted postad to the tIM north and to the east t of ot Chin Tien Cheat Cheng Che began shelling abelli the patrols of at Japanese infantry ry which had been dispatched from island to another island north of Island land and under i Chiu Tien Cheng Chen The Japanese Japan e bat batteries batte tense teries te replied to this shelling lUng and si at silenced 1 the Russian RusMan fire Are Later eight e ht Russian RuIa R Guns Gua posted on OA a hilt hill to the east of ot the village villace of ot Makao 0 opened upon Ute the e imperial guards To this thie th shelling the Japanese artillery to the east of responded and the Rus Rue Russians siane ceased firing Thea Then he both Mth th the Chiu Chuu Tien Ilen and nd the Makao batteries reopened and this thi fire lire brought a vigorous response from the chain of ot Japanese Japan batteries on the Korean Korea side of the river The Russian Rustan guns gum gu red fired for tor two hours toura before they Ute were silenced en a In his bis report General Kuroki expresses the belief that his b was very effective t the Russians RussIa R The Japanese losses I a in the bombard bombardment bombardment barel ment meat of ef Saturday were two men killed and 0 five ye officers cera and mon men 4 wounded woun ed A flotilla of gunboats from fromi i the squadron of ot Admiral Hosoya par participated in the fighting ftC Unc of Saturday tury It encountered a mixed force of Rue Rus Russian sian Infantry cavalry and nd artillery on the tb bank of the Yalu Talu be below below below low and after alter a sharp shari fight APt scattered scatter them to the hills bills A bridge across the min main aln stream of ot the Yalu Ta hu Just t aboe was w com corn completed plated at S 8 Saturday night and the Second Japanese Japan division and the t imperial guards rc immediately began bean crossing They advanced and occupied the tb kills hills hi hack back of Kosan facing the theR Russian R position on en the right ht bank of the river riv r AU All through Saturday night regiment after regiment of Japanese soldiers poured across the bridge brid e and anti at a late lats hour hoar Saturday night General Kuroki telegraphed to tu the tu general genera p po staff of oL o the Ut th army Attacked A at BaWL w J will attack the enemy on May 1 at dawn True to JaW his hi prom promise General Kuroki KII at a daylight today centered entend L all aU hi his artil artl artillery lery on eq the Russian Rutan position Ulan between I lila TIn Tien Cheng and To this Uta fire dr the Russians made reply with all 11 their IeL At T f in the morning moraln the Bus Rus Russian Ruan sian elan n battery at was WaR silenced and half an aa hour later General Kuroki ordered 0 his hIa entire tire line stretching for tor tour four miles to attack The fl Japanese J infantry 7 on the theore word of command cel charted across aero the Iho wading In that stream breast deep P and nd began betran storm storming to H lug ing in the heights at i By 9 P they had lId swept the Rue Bus Busi i siaa sIau line hue It hock hack across ac the plateau No Ifo report has baa been received in Tokio concerning the he losses loues sustained by the Japanese J ia In a the lighting fighting hUn of today It Itis ItIs is ja believed that these thew losses I were heavy JaM particularly during du the infantry try tr chars charis e The Tue reports of this thu thi fighting which have baY been heon received here bere do not indicate whether the Russians retired ret down owa tile the i river rivet or la In the tIM direction of Feng Yeng Pen Huan lilian chevE C on 00 the road to LI Y Tg |