Dictionary of Battles / From the Earliest Date to the Present Time

by Thomas Benfield Harbottle

Chong-ju (Russo-Japanese War).

The first encounter between the land forces of Russia and Japan, April, 1904, when the advanced guard of the First Japanese Army came in contact with a force of Cossacks under General Mischtchenko, and after a brisk engagement drove them back and occupied Chong-ju. The losses on both sides were small.