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Show RUSSIANS PRONOUNCE YAIU BATTLE UNTRUE ST. PETERSBURG, April 30. The reported big Japanese, victory on the Yalu is pronounced here to be impossible impos-sible unless tho Japanese chose to interpret in-terpret their practically unimpeded passage of the river as a great victory. As the Russians have JlttlcT more than observation outposts, with a few guns to harass the crossing of the Japanese, anything beyond skirmishing Is declared de-clared by a member of the general staff A;o have been out of the question. Llao Yanjr Is connected by wire with the headquarters of the general commanding com-manding tho outposts and lt is presumed pre-sumed that the commander would report re-port Immediately any incident of Importance, Im-portance, but the latest Information of skirmishing Is covered ln a statement Issued by tho general staff tonight |