The daily morning journal and courier., 1904-04-28
RUSSIAN DETAILS OF
 JAPS' PASSAGE OF YALU
TMPOsSIBILITY OF PREVENTING MOVEMENT REALIZED.


 ! for Eighty Miles-onIy Harrassing f Tactics FoIIowed-A Belief That the
 Japanese Will Not Attempt to Land | at TaIxushan or Tatung Kau. \ St. Petersburg, April 2S.-3.5O a. m.- Disappointment prevails in St. Peters burg that no official dispatches giving Details of the operations on the Yalu liver have yet been made public. The press dispatches are so meagre as to kloud rather than enlighten the people, FKho are hourly awaiting news. a The Associated Press has obtained from the general staff the following Rlear statement of the situation: # Before beginning the passage of the Kalu the Japanese evidently completed The concentration of two armies along *he river commanded by Generals Ku Aoki and Oku. Each army is compris- Id of three divisions and three reserve Srigades. The total force is 100000. The Russians on the Manchurian bank sf the river are inferior in strength.
 Having perfected the essential prep Era ations the Japanese, without waste $e time, commenced the passage of the s5iver and the Russians realized that it Would be impossible to prevent their Irossing. The Japanese front extend- Id from Wiju as far as Pick Tong, lSver eighty miles. We faced the possi- 3ility that they would cross at a score af places and all we could hope was to Aarass and impede the crossing, for 5very day gained enabled us to push iur preparations and bring up more hen.
 There are only two instances in his- |slross a river-that of Napoleon at |IAspern and that of Prince Eugene, of |Bavoy, at Lech. Both failed because of Hoods. The Yalu proved no exception 10 the established rule.
 we know that the Japanese crossed It at least two points. Their first at 3empt to force a passage near Chand- the- Row, twenty miles above Wiju, bear Siaopoussikhe, on the Poussikhe,
 tributary of the Yalu, was successful. This is important because a road leads rom Siaopoussikhe northeast to Kwan- lien, which commands one of the roads b Mukden,
 Tt is evident that the Japanese de- oted most of their attention to cross hg near Wiju. The river here is divid- d into several channels by islands, the #zhrgest of which is Samalindo. Above 3n nd below Wiju was bridged at three 7#oints
 Up the. stream near Sine Diagou the apanese were watched by a small de- achment of Cossacks, but the enemy gas practically unopposed. At Turen- hen, lower down, our outposts directed
 fire from a field piece so successfully hat they destroyed the moorings and
 recked the pontoons. The enemy was hrown into disorder and suffered con-
 derable loss. Still further down the Eream the Japanese proceeded to make
 third attempt at crossing.
 seWe do not think the Japanese will ttemptto land at Takushan or Tatung Eau. now that they have crossed the alu. The object of such landings had len to cause diversion so as to en- ble the Japanese to cross the river. akushan is not good strategic point. he road leading therefrom is bad and
 oops could only be supplied with great ificulty.
 with regard to future operations we snnot speak The Russians will not how their hand at this stage, but will ybntinually harass the enemy, choosing heir own time for a battle." MA military expert, who is particular impressed with the importance of k he Japanese crossing near Siaopous- lkhe, said that the use of the road nerefrom would enable the enemy not nly to march upon Mukden, but to
 ltfank the Russian position at Feng
 aun Cheng and cut off any of Gen
 al Rennenkampff's Cossacks which
 lay have gone to join the attack on
 eneral San.
 AP STATESMAN AT HARVARD