Heavy Firing Heard
Near Pont Arthur
Tho Yalu Skin ish
Russians Landed and Pled
London, f esterday. Renter's agency reperts that heavy firing was heard from five to seven on the morning of the 13th, between Tengehtou and Port Arthur.
Admiral Togo reports, respecting the skirmish on the Yalu, that Lieutenant Yamagichi and five scouts were returning on Sunday from a scouting expedition in a Korean junk, when they encountered seven Eussians in another junk. The latter were soon assisted by another boatload of Eussians, while mounted Japanese on the river-bank co-operated with Yamagichi. After fighting for eighty minutes the Eussians landed and fled. One was killed and two wounded. There were no Japanese casualties. Four hundred empty cartridges were found in the Eussian junks.
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Manawatu Times, Volume XXVII, Issue 7958, 15 April 1904, Page 2
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