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Tone 10, ItXH. Crossing of the Yalu (Continued from rag Four.) diversion, of the Russian battery's attention to the town, where circles of blue amok from burs tin shrapnel hung- fteecily la the air and then were blown away, and the bits of Iron that rained In the streets formed the first souvenirs of the great land oonfllct that Is to come. $ After the Battle. NTlINO. Mar i We had expected I that the battle would come with V I th crnaslne-. hut the two were entirely distinct. The crossing took place on one day (April 3u Vrassssssdrassi and the battle occurred on the next (May 1). The account of the one I have already sent. Draw a line approximately north and south through Wiju, and both banks to the east were already In possession of the Japanese on the night of the 30th. Op posite Wiju the Al river Joins its waters to those of the Yalu. On its bank the light flank of the Japanese rested at the end of the first day's movement. All that night troops were crossing Into China till morning found Corea without the army that had been a self Invited guest for many weeks. It the spectator on this famous 1st of May had some of idea of what he was going to see, the vagueness of that Idea added to the Interest. He knew that the day before) had been one of the great days of his life, and expected that this would be another. Rising at dawn becomes second nature when you are with an army. As I rode through the south gate of the city. Cap tain Okada, who has the correspondents In charge, looked at his watch and asked If the others were close behind. He was a little worried, like a man who has guests to dinner. There was to be a charge In force, and the time for it was almost as exactly set as that for the rising of a theater curtain. This charge, even in a period of long range rifles, we were to see as distinctly as a foot ball game. If there were parts of the play that were obscure, so there are when Tale and Harvard struggle for the pigskin. The bluff above Wiju was no longer for- . bidden to the correspondent Lifting your glosses to see what new tableau this ever prepared army that shows you nothing till It is finished had In store for you, no glance was wasted on Tiger's nil!, which rises out of the river's bed to the height of 1,(XX' feet or more. Its sides are precipitous. On a first thought. It seems an impregnable position of defense. But If Infantry could not storm these steep rock-ribbed ascents, no more could Infantry escape down them. To take Tiger's Hill the Japanese had only to mnreh around it. For a short time the Russians had a mountain gun posted there. After firing a few shots, this was with drawn. In the dark ages of Europe a robber boron would have built his castle n such an eminence and defied and ruled all' the country round. In this conflict It Designs forBathingSuits HE diversity of designs on which bathing suits are cut this year bows that manufacturers have awakened to a realisation that all women do not look alike la the surf. There are designs for stout wo men and for thin; high-necked blouses for thin girls, and beautiful round necks for girls with plump throats and shoulders. There are elbow sleeves, three-quarter sleeves and sleeves which are mere puffs. All the smart suits have the three com ponent parts bloomers, skirt and blouse worked Into one single, solid, non-partabl garment Another feature common to all the new bathing costumes Is the trim, fitted ap pearance of the skirts. They srs aba pod to the figure and have lost that loose, baggy effect which characterised than In the past For example, a dark blue mohair, trimmed with white braid, has simu lated skirt yoke, with three rows of the white braid, fitted snugly around the hip. The five gores which com pose the skirt flare broadly below ths knees, and are finished with three more rows of braid. The blouse, which Is laid In a large box plait down the front has a round neck, outlined by three rows of braid, ad both blouse and skirt open on the left Bidet A dark-green mohair has a snugly fitted skirt and a blouse that is tight fitting around the neck and shoulders and plaited Into the belt In fine tucks. It is cut low at the throat with a square sailor collar, and flat, knotted tie of very pale ecru mohair, trimmed in a darker shade of ecru washable braid. The belt matches the collar, and the shoes are of tan-colored canvas, with darker tan laces and Stockings to match. A pretty dark mohair Is trimmed in a fetching design of narrow white braid. The front gore of the skirt Is plain and narrow, and there is a slight fullness over the hips and in the back. The bottom of the skirt flares, and each ' gore Is outlined -by three graduated rows of the white braid. each finished with a white button. Three lines of the braid run over each shoulder to graduated lengths to form a "V" THE ILLUSTRATED BEE. was la the center of as artillery duel, with shells flying about Its ribs, but none fired at It or from It On the other side of Tiger's Hill there is a sandy bottom, and the AJ river, flowing between heights, here enters the Tain. On the western side of the Al the high bluffs, with the broken skyline above and the stretch of river sand below, continue till they disappear In the haze. Four or Ave miles from ths mouth of the Al are the white walls of a UtUe village, Chlu Lien Cheng. From this vil lage runs the main highway toward Feng Wang Cheng and Lias Tang, which ths ' armies must follow. This then was the position of ths Ros slons, who had evacuated the broad sandy Islands In the river below WTJu two days before. They had formed on the road. Ths ease with which the Japanese had crossed on the previous day above WUu, surprising the Japanese themselves, led to only on conclusion. The Russians had not Intended to give battle at the Yalu. All that they sought to gain was delay which should fatten the numbers of their guns and men. at the point where they should make a stand. Whenever they could fores ths Japanese to elaborate preparation for a general attack they bad gained a week for their overworked railroad. Every mile to Japanese traveled Inland was a mil furtnsr for ths Japanese and a mil nearer for the Russians to the all-commanding thing of all armies the base of supplies. That the Russians would fall between the two stools of a general defense aad simp! delaying tactics was not contain plated. At the end of tbe first day yon thought that all was over except ths deploying to brush the hills clear of th rear guard. But the second day held a surprise for the Russians and for the Japanese. For the Russians tbe annihilation of two regi ments and th loss of twenty-eight guns, ns reported. For th Japanese this mad a success tl at was unexpected. The spec tators are still In doubt whether to mar vel most at Russian carelessness or at th marching power of the Japanese. On the night of April 30 the Japanese oc cupied the Islands the Russians had evacua ted and crossed in force. The morning ef May 1 showed us clearly the Russian posi tion, how it was to be taken, and the force that was to take It Along the crests of the Rus.4an heights you could see tbe dust-colored line of the Russian -trenches from 800 to 1,000 feet above th river bed. The trenches were long enough to hold a great force. They might b manned by 1,000 or by 10,000 men, who rested for the moment In peace and se curity, with their antagonists as clearly outlined before them as the streets of a town .to a balloonist Every man there must have known that in tbe end he must fly. Meanwhile he must take as great a toll of lives as silent rules, with magaaines filled and waiting on th triggers' call, could command. On the sands below, dis tinct to tbe naked eye, the cones of two field hospital tents bespoke preparation for what the Russian rifles could give. Not a man of the Japanese lines needed a doctor shaped effect back and front The short, puffed sleeves have three rows of braid ing running down from the shoulder, and a high standing collar la finished In the same way, while the narrow box plait down the front of the waist bas white buttons arranged in groups of three. With this is worn a blue and whit Tarn o Shan ter. The stockings are dark bine and the can vas bathing slippers black. White bathing slippers make the foot look very large. A striking study In cardinal red mohair and white has the cardinal for the body of the suit and th white mohair for th belt and the large scalloped collar. These are braided In cardinal novelty braid, show ing a dash of Mack. Red stockings and black sandals complete the costume. The woman whose fad is wash taffeta will find black to outline the flaring gores . and the deep collar which turns back to form a "V" shaped neck. Blender girls who will bath at exclusive summer resorts are indulging a fad for all white bathing suits In sheer lansdown. The stout woman, however, should never wear white. These whit lanadowns are trimmed elaborately with silk braid, and a suit recently completed for an exclusive resort is trimmed with bands of pale blue washab'.e taffeta. White stockings and san dals, fastened on with blue ribbons, and a white mohair lingerie bathing hat com pletes a girlish if delicate-looking make-up. The Magical City (Continued from Page Two.) not show. Variation in. ths ground level was one of the difficult problems that th chief of design had to cope with. Primar ily he had to refrain from planning exca vations as much as possible, ss tens of thousands of dollars can be spent in this way with very little to show for the money. The artifice he employed In the erection of the agricultural building is representative of many others ubcJ to overcome this diffi culty at the minimum expense. There are two real attractions at th fair that set It apart from all predecessors, and both are feasts for the eye. They are elec trical and architectural, the former to b seen at night from a point of vantage on the Plaza of St. Louis, the latter, In all Its - magical splendor, la late afternoon at that moment. In an hour thousands might, the numbers all dependent upon the size of the force hugging the dusty line on tbe Russian heights. All was to be real In this drama of the meeting of two organised groups of men who had marched far and carried heavy loads and lived on hard rations for the privilege of mutual destruction, an-i to that group whoa power of destruction was th great est would belong the glory. Lining th wsll of Wiju, perfectly secure from fire, were th unwashed noncommit tal Corea ns, whose land was one of the subjects of contention. (When I crosMed th river the next day, the first man I saw was another subject of contention an old Chinese sifting oat of the sand and ashes th parched remains of the grain from tbe ruins of his house, which the Russians had burned.) In the Ja pases line were some B.000 men, forming an Intact blue streak from th bluff's edge beyond Tiger's Hill to Chlu Lien Cheng. They would remain as stationary as trees till th order came Which should set them in motion ss one machine toward the Russian positlm. Without glarses this line seemed no more than a long fence hang with blue, the Russian position only an uninhabited height, where storms perhaps had eroded th summit. Between th two, over the stretch of sands, where th skirmish line and the reserves were to pass, and on the further channel which they were to ford, was no moving object. It was a son free of life, which soon would be tbe seen of human activity that would hold the atten tion of the world a stretch f river bottom where was to be fought the first Infantry battle of account In th most pictures iue of modern wars. Before tbe charge began tbe onlooker had time to realize that he was about to witness a frontal attack, with modern weapons which many tacticians hold to be no longer practicable. The Japanese In fantry had been inarching and hill climb ing all the day before. Those who had slept at all had slept little. Some had spent the night in getting Into position. Now they oto their rations of rice and nth. and lay packed close in the convolutions of the river bed. rectng the long levels that they had to cover a task set sternly be fore them In the clear light of morning. Their guardians, the guns, still had sus picions of the conical fort that had been pounded to silence on the 30th. They spat fir with the vlclousness of bitter memory. No answering flas-b broke through the columns of dust tossed up by the common shell from the Japanese howitzers or th bloe smoke "rings of the shrapnel. Th skirmishers had sprung to their feet com pany after company of that line four or five miles long had deployed, and yet ur breathless waiting brought no gunfire from the enemy's heights. Had the RusrHns entirely withdrawn their guns over night? If they had. then they meant to make no proper defense; they sought only to force the Japanese to from Festival Hilt. But you should climb the grand stairway leading op the hni early in the afternoon, scat yourself on a bench along the grassy slopes, bordered with radiantly flowered festoons, and look out over the picture before you. At first you will see nothing but cream white buildings arches, colonnades, domes, towers and heroic sculpture being the striking featnres. But presently, uncon sciously, one by one, the finer details thnt bind the bigger thing Into one harmo nious whole will creep in upon you. Spe cially you wOl feel and know that the fair cannot be called the Cream City, as Chicago was the White City. For as yoo sit and look, you behold the green of trees and grass oammlngted with cream-colored Corinthian colonnades. Tou see flowers of myriad hnes bordering the rose-red of gravel walks and terraced steps leading to the arched bridges thrown gracefully across the sky-blue waters of the lagoon. Tou feel touches of gilt en the Louisiana Purchase monument, where a few mo ments before everything seemed creamy; you behold the roofs and towers and domes, old rose and bronze green, and find the color of the trees and walks car ried there. As long as you look the color Impression, grows upon you. At last, as twilight comes and you rise to make your way to ths Plaza of St. Louis to take In the electrical display, you know that land and water, gardens and buildings, flowers and trees and sculpture, all have been grandly blended into a magnificent ensemble that Is worth a Journey half way around the world to see and feel. And the result seems all the more wonderful when you lenrn that the man who is responsible for this gorgeous architectural panorama also found time to design not only the Louis iana Purchase monument, but the Interior of Festival Hall, the Agricultural, the For estry and Fishery, the Horticultural and the Transportation buildings, to say noth ing of the twelve arched bridges that cross the lagoon. These bridges had to be high enough to permit of the passage of gon dolas underneath, stfll not too arched to make it difficult for the fire engines to go over then), and at the same time be in complete unison with their surroundings. OUT T. YISKNISIiiO. 11 make a battle formation, to gain time fas the Increasing army on their chosen ground for decisive resistance. Or were th Rus sian guns waiting for a fairer chance? This was a dramatic possibility, but It did not stand to reason. The frontal attack was to have no savage test. We were t re more of a field day than a battle, you thought, not counting on the determined resistance of the Russian Infantry, unas sisted. With smokeless powder, with field guns of the latest pattern, with all other mod ern accessories, we had two armies not la khaki. Kvi:ry Japanese soldier on this arena was as sharply defined as pencil marks on white paper. Could the mind have worked rapidly enough through th glasses, on might have counted them nlU With reserve crowding In, they becam Ilk a young orchard. For the .first fifteen minutes them was no rifle fire. Was It really war or was It only a ntaneuverlng? We listened for the rnttle of musketry: at any second we expected to see som of th f-gurcs fall. With the undulations of the ground and individuals avoiding bad footing, the line would grow bunchy In places, and then thin out again to better skirmish order. But the units were much closer than th order of either the British or American armies. The Anglo-Saxons were seeing ths German theory trieil the German theory of numbet and pressing the attack bom Is face of the enemy's firs as against ours of widely separated units and flanking maneuvers. If there were 5.WQ Russians In the trenches on tha heights It seemed that they ought to mow that river bed clear of Japanese. Such was the distance that the line seemed to go ahead from th steady impulse of mechanics Instead of being carried by human legs. Their double seemed a creep. At one and the same time you wanted them to hasten In order to bring on the dramatic flnnle, and you wanted them to wait In order to give you time to grnsp In full the panorama they afforded. They had two miles to go, with sand to their ankles In many places. The first rifle fire came from far to the right, whore the end of the Japanese firing Una was obscured. We could merely hear; wo could see nothing, which la the usual ex perience In a modem battle. . 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