THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE' ON LAND THE PASSAGE OF THE YALU RIVER BY THE JAPANESE. General Kuroki was not able to make his forward move to the Yalu until the second army was ready to cross into Manchuria. It was, moreover, first necessary to render the Port Arihur fleet useless. Thie victories of April 13, 14, and 15 enabled the main movement to begin. The first 'army corps thereupon began the passage of the Yalu. Hundreds of metal pontoons had been brought up for bridging purposes The Russians contested the passage, their guns on the heights above the right bank of the river keeping up an incessant firing. Some Japanese gunboats ascended the Yalu and ergaged the enemy while tho bridging went on. The bridge was completed by the end of the first day, and on the second day the army crossed and advanced against the Russians, who "ware, in the end, after severe ngnting, driven from their position at Kiu-Hen-cheng towards Feng-hwang-cheng.—From the Graphic. (Otago Witness, 27 July 1904)

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THE FIRST GREAT BATTLE' ON LAND THE PASSAGE OF THE YALU RIVER BY THE JAPANESE. General Kuroki was not able to make his forward move to the Yalu until the second army was ready to cross into Manchuria. It was, moreover, first necessary to render the Port Arihur fleet useless. Thie victories of April 13, 14, and 15 enabled the main movement to begin. The first 'army corps thereupon began the passage of the Yalu. Hundreds of metal pontoons had been brought up for bridging purposes The Russians contested the passage, their guns on the heights above the right bank of the river keeping up an incessant firing. Some Japanese gunboats ascended the Yalu and ergaged the enemy while tho bridging went on. The bridge was completed by the end of the first day, and on the second day the army crossed and advanced against the Russians, who "ware, in the end, after severe ngnting, driven from their position at Kiu-Hen-cheng towards Feng-hwang-cheng.—From the Graphic. (Otago Witness, 27 July 1904)

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