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Show RUSSIAN REPORTS OF SITUATION ON THE YALU ST. PETERSBURG, April 30. -An official of-ficial dispatch htiH been received at headquarters concerning affairn on the Talu up to April 2S. It follows: "Official "Of-ficial reports rccolved during tho lost fow day.s stato that on April 22 a movement move-ment was necn among Iho Japanese troops on the Talu, small detachments movinar on tho left bank. On April 23 larger bodies concentrated opposite Wlju nnd tho Japanose proceeded to cross ' by small detachments. About two companies with a small body of cavalry crossed at Siaopoussllchc. From tho evening of April 21 onward reports began to como In to the effect that tho enemy was preparing" to crocs at "Wlju, Turen Cheng and Tchao Chen Ling. "On tho following day the Japanese endeavored to throw bridges aerdss, the eastern "arm1 of the Yalu opposite Turen Cheng and Slaopoussikhe. Toward 3 o'clock in the afternoon they occupied tho Island of Somallnda nnd spent the night of April 2C on nn inland north of Sandakou. "Tho Japanese, who numbored 1500, woro rccolved by the fire of our light cavalry, who, being numerically Inferior, Infer-ior, took boats and crossed to the rlcht bank, whence they kept up a lively fire, occupying: a narrow, pafh ulong the bank, sheltered by n sharp ascent. Our light cavalry lost the ohlcf of the detachment, de-tachment, Lieut. SomenoPf, and eighteen men woundod, but their sevcro tire at short range against the Japanese Sn close formation must have Inflicted considerable losses. "At 3:30 a. m. April 2fi, by their firing on tho Island opposite Turen Cheng, cur guns destroyed tho bridge ucross tho eastern branch of the Yalu toward the island of Somallnda, forcing tho Japanese to continue their passage of tho river by pontoqns couth of "Wlju. Toward midday a detachment of Japanese, Jap-anese, with a battery of artillery, began a march upon Turen Cheng, but, meeting meet-ing with the fire of our artillery, they retired in disorder and confusion toward tho place of their passage. The Japanese Japan-ese battery did not havo time even to come into action. "At 9 o'clock in the evening of April 27 some threo battalions of the Japanese Japan-ese crossed the Yalu at the -Ullage of Matoutseo, over tho eastern branch of tho river. Tho night of April 27-2S passed quietly. |