The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-04-14
RUSSIANS TRY TO CROSS
A RIVER, BUT ARE DRIVEN
BACK BY THE JAPANESE
Twenty Dead SharpShooters,
Wearing the Cars Uniform,
Found After the Skirmish.
FIGHT IN YALU RIVER
Japanese Naval Scouts Attack the
Enemy, Kill One Man and
Wound Two.

TOXIC, April Ian official telegram
from Win says that a company of Russian
troops attempted to cross the first stream
of the Yalu river west of Win Tuesday
morning, and that a company of Japanese
attacked and drove the Russians back.
The bodies OF twenty dead Russians, the
telegram adds, were found after the fight.
Their uniforms showed that they belonged
to the Twelfth Regiment of sharpshooterS.
Finally. the dispatch says that small par
ties of Russians without uniforms have at
tempted TO cross the Yalu river at differ
ent points between Wiju and Yonghampho
and that they were all driven back.
Details of the first skirmish in the Yalu
river. which occurred last Sunday, arrived
to-day in the official report of Admiral
Hosoga- The text of the report follows:
In accordance with my instructions,
the captain of the cruiser Kasaga directed
Lieutenant Yamaguchi with five men to
scout in the mouth of the Yalu. They ac-
complished their work and safely returned
to the Kasaga on Monday They entered
the river in a Korean junk, and at 2
O'Clock Sunday discovered party of Rus
slams leaving the right bank of the river
near Toag-Terryuho in a junk. Lieuten-
ant YamaSuchi attacked them, d patrol
or mounted Japanese troops on the left
bank of the river joining in the attack.
In the meantime another large Russian
junk joined the first one and opened fire
on the japanese. The Russians retired
and reached the bank. They then fled
inland. The exchange of fire lasted one
hour and twenty minutes. The enemy had
one killed and two wounded. We had no
casualties. Four hundred empty cartridges
were found in the, Russian junks. We be-
heve the Russians were cavalry patrol
watching the river"
ST. PETERSBURG, April ban official
telegram received here reports the APP
pearance of Il warship and several junks
supposed to be Japanese, in the neighbor-
hood OF the estuary of the Lao river dur
ing the night of April IL. They drew off
after the Russian guns had opened on them
at range of about four thousand yards.
Numbers of small steamers and barees
are being hastily constructed in Manchurid
with the intention of using them on the
Amur, Urusi and Sungari rivers to trans
port Russian troops and material after the
breaking up of the ice. The weather had
been stormy, and snow falls and heavy
rains had prevailed throughout the Kwang-
Tung peninsula. The Japanese vanguard
occupying Wiju and YOngamphO had ex-
tended its lines to the River Pomahua
The Japanese were entrenching opposite
Schachedse, the working parties wearing
Korean dress.
1t was learned to-day that the Russian
Cossacks who annihilated the fifty Japan
csc at Samalind island, Yalu river, appar-
emily only numbered thirty seven men.
An official dispatch sent by an aid-de-
camp of General Kuropatkin to the EN-
peror. dated April II, says: General Kach-
talinsky, commanding the Russian forces
at the Yalu river, reports that on April IL,
during an engagement of outposts our
two soldiers killed and two soldiers
wounded"