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Show RUSSIA'S WATERLOO AT MOUTH OF YALU LONDON. May t-The important ac-counta ac-counta of the fighting on the Yalu river have reached London, and various opinions opin-ions are expressed regarding the importance import-ance of the Japanese victory. It la considered con-sidered in some quarters that It was never the intention of the Russians to hold the right bank of the Yalu except for tactical purposes, and that the real struggle has not yet ben reached. The Dally Telegraph takes the rather extreme view of comparing the rapture of Klullea Cheng to that of Waterloo and Plevna, ahd says that the present misfortune mis-fortune Is even more serious because the Russians have been driven frem a fortified forti-fied position in spite of every advantage conferred on Its defense by modern weapon.. wea-pon.. "The tight." the editorial says, "must modify and forever the destinies of Europe and Asia." The Times military correspondent, presuming pre-suming that her important Japanese operations oper-ations will coincide with the Klull.n Cheng affair, points out that the world la completely in the dark regarding the second sec-ond and third Japanese armlas. The second sec-ond army left Japan In tha latter part of March under Gen. Oku, the correspondent says, and so far no one has been able to lecate it. "It has vanished into space," while the correspondent points out the third army embarked quite recently. |