Show JAPS CROSS THE THIS MARKS BEGINNING OF LAND engagements after five days of fighting the first japanese army forced a crossing of balu yalu river and put rua to ally advices received in boklo state that the twelfth division of the japanese forced a crossing of the balu yalu river above just before dawn saturday morning the second pon toon bridge across tho river near was completed at 8 clock saturday night and the guards of the second division crossed during the night after five days of fighting largely with artillery the first japanese army under general kuroki has forced a crossing of the balu yalu river and with a gallant infantry charge covering a frontage of four miles it drove the russians from ahl tien cheng and the heights on the right bank of the iho or alda river which enters the balu yalu from the north a most opposite the japanese turned the left flank of the hesslan position and in the battle they swept away the new front interposed by the russians to check their onward movement the present position of the japan ese Is a dominating one and they may force the abandonment of the defenses erected by the russians at aftung and other points lower down the river it Is claimed that in the recent en gage ments the russians lost men while the japanese lost men |