New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1904-05-03
NOTES OF THE WAR.

Places are mentioned in the days news which
are not 20 be found upon ordinary maps. while
others are called by strange names. Both cir
cuunstanCes are easily explained. The country
az both sides OF the Yalu. or OF the estuary OF
that river. IS thlcIy settled. and within the
space Of few miles there are dozens Of villages.
II is simply impossible 10 indicate all these upon
a map Of ordinary scale. Suppose we were hav-
ing military campaign in this city. and dis
patch spoke Of an army landing at Port Morris
and marching through Melrose to BoscobeI.
where IL met a force which had come up from
Carmansyille' That would be quite clear to a
New-Yorker. but 10 man in London or Paris,
who had only ordinary atlas map of New
York State, IT would be bewildering.
As for the strange names. We have already
reminded our readers that almost every place
there has at least two names. japanese or a
Corean and Chinese and that each of these
names has two three different forms OF trans
liberation. according to whether you follow
English a French or \ German photographer.
Thus Win. OF the simplest names in all
that region. is otherwise known as Aitsu, while
our German friends insist upon spelling II
WitsJu Now to add TO the CONFUSION the Rus
slams Russitylrg names at WILL adding on
s6ys" 10 Chinese or Corean polysyllableS with
the most nonchalant disregard OF our vocal or
gans Fortunately, the chief places mentioned
easily recognizable and are 10 be found upon
the maps, and from them we can determine the
situation of the rest with sufficient accuracy.
The scene Of the Japanese advance was the
estuary Of the Yau River. That is about seven
teen miles long from the up 10 the con-
fuence of the YaIu and the Lung-Wang River.
The latter ts a considerable stream. and upon it.
thirty-flve miles up is Feng- -Cheng to
which the Russians have reiterated. KIu-Lien-
Cheng which seems to be the same as Chin
Tien-Cheng. is at the southwest OF the junction
OF the Lung Wang with the Yalu estuary, aud
ia on the hghroad which runs from An-Tung.
five miles further down the same shore Of the
estuary TO Feng-Wang -Cheng and thence
Yang and MOukden. Six miles above the
head OF the estuary another and smaller river.
flowing parallel with the Lung-Wang. enters the
YaIu. This is variousy known the I or Al
River the form Tho which appears in some
dispatches being a misprinting of Il Ho.'' "Ho''
The chief fighting took place between these two
afffuents of the YaIu, for we are told that Gen
eral Kurokrs four-mile front infantry charge
swept from the right or western bank OF the Al
TO the bank of the Lung-Wang
The Lung Wang River is shown clearly on
The Tribunes map OF the scene Of war. rising
we'll up in the heart OF Shing- King and flowing
down past Feng-W angCheng to the Yalu near
Witu The Al is not shown the map, being
too small for indication on map of such scale
but may be traced by the reader Just little
northeast OF the Lung-Wang.
There are numerous islands in the estuary Of
the YaIu. which are mentioned in the dispatches
and which were used by the Japanese in their
operations They cannot. Of course. be shown
a
lie opposite and north Of WIFI and An-Tung.
This complete occupation Of the Yalu estuary
nv the Japanese will enable them to use those
waters and shores as their new base Of opera
tons First they made their landings at Che
mulpo Then they pushed up the coast TO Chin
ammo. Now they make similar use Of WIFI and
An-Tune. where army and fleet will be in touch
as they have been all the way up the Corean
coast Now If the Japanese follow the Russians
straight up toward -Wang-Cheng. they
will strike so far inland as to lose touch with
the ships But if they take the shore road in
stead TO Ta-Tung-k ow and Ta-Ku-Shan they
win keen close to the feet and. by constantly
rnenacing its right flank, be able just efrec-
lively to push the Russian army back toward
Iiao-Yang A. the same time they will be MAX
ing the situation OF the Port Arthur garrison
more and more perilous. 1t IS remarked that
the Japanese are now following almost exactly
the route they followed IN the war with China
In that war, however, they made a landing at
Pi-Tsze-Wo for the advance upon Port Arthur
II may be that they will do so this time, too;
or that the army which has crossed the Yalu
will make Pt-Tsze-Wo its next objective.