Eureka Reporter | 1904-04-15 | Page 2 | Surprised by Russians

SURPRISED BY RUSSIANS japanese scouts get the worst of it in encounter with enemy on the night of april 9 four rus crossed the balu yalu to and made toward a rus sian village where they found a squadron of japanese cavalry they remained there twelve hours when they were betrayed by koreans and found themselves obliged to swim the river their boat having struck on a sand bani one soldier lost his life the japanese pursued the russians in a boat but were in turn astaci ed by a russian beat which had come to the rescue of the swimmers the japanese were all killed and their boat sunk