Show JAPS JA CROSS CHOSS TUB I YIU VA LU Pontoon Were re to toM M ct Over Oyer Ilao IIno Yang April l IlI t night hId and tubs the lilt Japanese forced l n o ot tile the two com cont Pallies l and IUli Heavy Id lug was 1111 heard near neur U mug 1 on In III I It V It Is believed tins tho o made n Ii feint In order older to distract from Crom from the tha real ucal point of lit pa to I ar III no bridge the tue liel It la ill blI b l the Hus lire lime resulted In the Iho floating parts of ot tho the Japanese bridges On in April 23 3 the observed that hInt thu the Japanese wore making to 10 crow cross the river On tho lie night of April to 25 two ors ore two to torpedo do bouts boats were noticed at nt tile the mouth of ot tile the river rl er They ap up approached the shore nt at daylight and the thi Japanese commenced to build n It pontoon bridge on the tho loft left tributary A second pontoon Ion too II was WilS being prepared 10 mills up Ull upstream stream At t 3 J the tue same sanie afternoon the tho Japanese tho the Island of It sanie Undo to which they carried curried pontoon hoots bonts etc Tho iilO night poised passed quietly the tho torpedo boats bantu maintaining u tt cm of ul watch In case caso the troops RelIeve should bo be and examining the mouth of oC tIle the river by b meant of ut At M tile the next morning Jail Jap crossed the river near the vil vII village logo lage of ot whore however hooler the tho commenced tirIng firing up till upon tillon on them Tim fill advance guards had bind been hoen furnished with ivi lb u a sala small I I in gun 1 11 and they tho succeeded in Ill destroyIng time the th pontoon constructed neat near The Tho wrecked d pontoon wan inn carried away awny by hy bytho tile tho current and hint further bridging ing log operations erased hut hilt the Japanese continued lo to cross by another pontoon south Houth of If WUI A Japanese column with a IL buttery battery nf of artillery approached a nt t mill mid midday day la It but tIP time JuRlan skirmishers met them with stith firing evidently giving I thom them ron Itou I bh I a zu s they hey I ne retired t bred with I h tha tho buttery which mudo no attempt to an nil answer niler anVer Ver er the Iho Ore ire |