The Montgomery advertiser., 1904-05-02
LAPS CROSS YALU AND TURK
 LEFT WING OF RUSSIAl,l ARMY

heights near Khussan. ordered April positions which the Japanese occupied and then sent a detachment commando ed by stan Lieutenant Colonel Lind to | attack the enemy.
 The positions near Litzaven and Khussan were defended by Japanese | force consisting of two battalions. of | the 4th Regiment of the guard wit. mountain guns and a smell force Of cavalry of the Guard. With the as-
 sistance of our artillery from Potietin- sky, our troops dislodged the Japanese from the position. losing two sharp shooters killed and thirteen wounded l The Japanese left on the position they vacated ten dead and twenty-six | wounded. They also carried away a number of their wounded and others | scrambled down the cliffs to the Yaiu
 The enemy succeeded in removing their
 mountain gun.
 | After occupying the heights near Sindiagua. where our troops came un-
 der a heavy fire from a Japanese bat | tery posted north of Wftu, two of our ! guns shelled pontoon bridge and
 compelled the Japanese to dismantle it. l The Japanese troops at Litzaven and 1 Khussan retreated partly to the Yalu and partly northward.
 Up to the present, ten carbines and
 many cartridges and maps have been l found on the Japanese positions.
 Conspicuous gallantry was display
 ed by the light infantry of the 6th and
 12th regiments. 4
 At 10 o'clock the morning of April %. Japanese force of 1.5Oo infantry with twelve guns began to cross the river at
 Ambikhe and Schogahoudsy. Near Ann
 bikhe there was small Russian detaeh- ment under Lieutenant Colonel Goussev.
 which was compelled to retire under the
 sustained fire of the Japanese warships.
 Four men were wounded and Lieutenant
 Colonel Goussov was bruised on the
 hands and left arm.f Our mountain. guns
 were unable to return the cnemys fire on account of the excessive range and
 endorsements were sent to the detach-
 ment with orders to drive the Japanese beyond the Yalu.
 General Mistzchenke reports that the Japanese warships at the mouth of the
 Yalu April 29 opened fire on our troops. the cannonade lasting twenty minutes. No damage was done.
 s'All is quiet at Yinkow.
 April 30 from 10 o'clock In the morn ing until in the afternoon the Japanese skeiled our position at Turen Chen from
 their batteries on the left bank. where
 they had posted twenty four field guns and twelve 12O miilimetre siege guns,
 which were eleverly mounted in earth-
 works. They fired a minimum of 2.00o piojectiles. Our troops stuck stubbornly to the pontoon at Turen Chen.
 '"rhe morning of April 80 the Japanese rccrossed the Yalu at Sindia Giiin, at | taeking our troops posted on the heights
 hear the village of khussan and turning our left flank owing to the great superb
 ority of the Japanese forces. we retreated
 to a position of the village of Potietinsky. 1 Our losses at the Turen Chen pontoon were Lieutenant Pakholoff killed and
 Lieutenant Colonel Mahler. commanding battery of the 9th artillery brigade corps, seriously wounded; Colonel Meis-
 ter. Captain Worobieff. Captain Sapon- juijoff. Lieutenant Philadelpom and Cap
 tain Atroschenko wounded. Lieutenant
 Rutropoff of the 22nd regiment was seri-
 ously wounded in the head on the pom toon. Our losses in men have not yet been
 definitely ascertained but up to the pres
 ent it is known that there were three
 killed and 19 wounded"