Evening Bulletin

VOL. XV. No. 2755

Russians Suffered In Men and Equipment.

Washington, May 2.

To SAITO:
(Received in Honolulu 12 m.)

General Kuroki's report from Kiu-lien-chang. May 1st, says that notwithstanding the stout resistance to the Second and Twelfth Divisions and Imperial Guards, they advanced by three roads, driving the enemy before them.

We captured by 8 p. m. a line extending from Antung to Liushukon, and the Imperial Guards surrounded the enemy on three sides, and, after a severe fight, captured twenty guns with horses and carriages, over twenty officers and many men.

The General Reserve Corps advanced along the Liaoyang road.

The enemy was composed of the whole Third Division and Twenty-second and Twenty-fourth Regiments of Sixth Infantry Division, Sharpshooters, Mischauko's cavalry brigade of about forty guns and eight machine guns. They fled toward Fenghoan-cheng.

Our casualties at most were not over 700. The total booty taken was twenty-eight quick-firing guns, large quantities of rifles and ammunition.

Our heavy field guns were very effective.

A Russian officer taken prisoner says that the commanders of both army corps and division were wounded and their casualties exceed 800.

To Saito, Honolulu:

General Kuroki commanding the First Army of Japan, reports that on the 26th of April preparations were made for laying bridges across the Yalu.

On the same day the detachments of the Imperial Guard and of the Second Division attacked and dispersed the enemy on islands in the river and occupied the islands.

In these engagements sixteen of the Imperial Guards were seriously and nine slightly wounded, while there were no casualties in the Second Division. The enemy retreated, carrying many dead and wounded, towards Chiu-lien-chang.

A Russian cavalryman taken prisoner said that the Twenty-second, Twenty-third and Twenty-seventh Infantry Regiments of the Eastern Siberian Sharpshooters formed a van of the Russian force, Lieut. Senyoloft commanding. Mountain scouts of the Twenty-second Regiment were found dead and were buried at Wiju; ninety-five dead horses were also found.

From noon of the 26th until the 27th the enemy fired intermittently upon Wiju but we made no reply. On the 26th, two gunboats, two torpedo boats and two steamers, detached from Admiral Hosoya's squadron, ascended the Yalu and exchanged shots with the enemy on Antzushan and silenced them. The detachment suffered no damage.

On April 28th two infantry companies of the company were detached to Ritzu-yuen, from which place the enemy fled leaving five dead. The enemy fired at long range from neighborhood of Chiu-lien-chang upon Wiju without much effect upon our works.

On April 29th, the Twelfth Division commenced bridging the river at Sukichin and completed the work early in the morning of the 30th, and the army crossed it from 10:40 a. m. to 10:30 p. m. There was severe firing on all sides, but the enemy was soon

Our losses were five officers slightly wounded and of non-commissioned officers and men two killed and twenty-two wounded. At 8 p. m. of the same day a bridge over the main stream was completed and the army crossing it advanced upon Hushan.

On the same day the detachment from Admiral Hosoya's squadron advanced below Antungsien and fought at close range with 400 of the enemy's infantry and cavalry. The enemy's artillery also directed heavy fire against the detachment but retreated after about an hour's firing. There were no casualties on our side.

On May 1st at daybreak our forces commenced cannonading and silenced the enemy's artillery on the hill north west of Yu-Shu-Kau and at 7:30 all the divisions attached attacked and by 9 a. m. took possession of the heights extending from Chiu-Lien-Chang to the north of Makau and Yu-Shu-Kan.

TAKAHIRA.