The War Between Japan and China.
♦ CHINESE TROOPS COMMITTING SUICIDE. ENGLISH WORKMEN FIRED AT. MORE JAPANESE SUCCESSES. (PEE PRESS ASSOCIATION.) Shanghai, August 20. A number of Chinese troops in Corea are committing suicide owing to sickness. The Chinese troops insulted and fired on a number of English employes at the Wei Haiwai arsenal becausethey ceased work upon the outbreak of war. Later. Wei Haiwai harbor was believed to be impregnable, but the Japanese gunboats forced the booms on several occasions, and explored the inner harbor. A Corean contingent assisted the Japanese against the Chinese in the engagement at Asan. London, August 20 The British Government have seized a steel cruiser at Newcastle laden with torpedo tubes, grapplers, and other warlike munitions for Yokohama. It is reported that Austrian agents will, within a few days, land 20,000 Mannlicher rifles in China. Japanese Legation bas denied the report of the loss of a cruiser.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 47, 21 August 1894, Page 2
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152The War Between Japan and China. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 47, 21 August 1894, Page 2
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