The War Between Japan and China.

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 76, 24 September 1894, Page 2

The War Between Japan and China.

(Per Press Association.) London, September 22. The naval engagement between the Japanese and Chinese off the Yalu River has been much discussed in England, and stimulates fresh demands for an increase of the British Navy. Shanghai, September 22. Chinese accounts of the recent naval engagement affirm the reports that the Chin Yuen rammed and sunk the Japanese warship and that later on she herself sank owiDg to damage cauoed by shots which struck her below the water line. It is also stated that the Japanese warship Maniwa was set on fire by B hots from the Chinese vessels and that several English instructors and engineers were killed. Admiral Ting was wounded in the face and legs. The wounds were dressed on deck, where he remained directing the operations of the fight. The Japanese report says that the vessels damaged in the engagement can be repaired in a week at sea, with the exception of the Matsushima, which will require to be docked. It affirms that no vessels were sunk. Thirty - two Japanese transports with 7000 troops, 2000 horses, and numerous batteries of artillery have arrived at Chemuloo and discharged their cargoes. JAPAN DECIDES TO PROSECUTE THE WAR VIGOROUSLY. 80,000 MEN ORDERED TO THE FRONT. LIST OF JAPANESE KILLED AND WOUNDED. Tokio, September 23. The Japanese Government has decided to prosecute the war vigorously before the ■winter sets in, and reinforcements to the number of 80,000 men have been ordered to the front. London. September 23 The Japanese legation was officially informed the loss at the recent battle was 10 officers and 69 men killed, aud tan _„ „,!„,!