_:vb6800383 "1904 March 23 [1904 March 22], Viceroy Alexieff, quotee, \u201CWaiting for the First Collision in the Yalu Region\u201D, in St. Louis Post-Dispatch\u200E[1], volume 56, number 215, St. Louis, \u2192ISSN, \u2192OCLC, page 2, column 2:"@en . "2" . _:vb6800383 "The following dispatch has been received from Viceroy Alexieff, dated Mukden, March 22:\u201CGen. Mitchenkow reports that on March 17 our scouts approached Anju and observed on the left bank of the Ching Chong river, opposite Anju, retrenchments made by the enemy."@en . . _:vb6800383 . _:vb6800382 . _:vb6800382 "(geography) Designating the bank of a river (etc.) on one's left when facing downstream (i.e. facing forward while floating with the current); that is, the north bank of a river that flows eastward. If this arrow: \u2972 shows the direction of the current, the tilde is on the left side of the river."@en .