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Show FIGHTING ON THE YALU. Rumored That Japanese Column Has Been Completely Destroyed. A dispatch to tho Central News of London from Port Arthur says news has been received thoro of the complete com-plete destruction of n Japanese column col-umn on tho Yah! river. No details, It is added, woro obtainable Rumors of fighting on the Yalu river aro repeated in various forniB and from varlouB points. Tho Shanghai Shang-hai correspondent of tho London Post says ho heard that the first Japanese army hnd crossed the Yalu almost without opposition, and tho Chronicle's Chron-icle's correspondent nt Seoul says that heavy fighting hns occurred, hut that for strategic reasons It Is Init posslhlo to send particulars. No authentic au-thentic nows, however, has reached London showing that anything has happened boyond skirmishing. According to tho Telegraph's St. Petersburg correspondent, tho Russian Rus-sian strategists aro relurtantly arriving arriv-ing Bt tho conviction that Kurokl is engaged in tho adventurous plan of advancing along tho ralddlo reaches of tho Yalu river via Kanggo, and de-splto de-splto enormous difficulties is moving his army over tho mountain passes, his purpose being to outflank tho Russian Rus-sian position on tho right of tho Yalu. |