The War Between Japan and China

Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 77, 25 September 1894, Page 2

The War Between Japan and China

___ » EEAV3T LOSSES OF JAPANESE TROOPS. ' CHINESE REINFORCEMENTS. THE RUSSIAN FLEET PREPARED FOR IMMEDIATE ACTION. JAPANESE SUCCESSES CAUSE A PANIC IN PEKIN. ENGLISH OPINIONS OF THE RECENT BATTLE. (Per Press Association.). Shanghai, September 23. The Japanese estimate their losses prior to the Ring Yang and Yulu engagements at 3000, chiefly in small actions, the news of which was suppressed. The Chinese are pouring reinforce ments into Moukden in anticipation of a Japanese attack, and the place is being rapidly reinforced. September 24. The Empress of China furnishes a further sum of 3,000,000 dollars towards the expenses of the war. The Russian fleet in the East, including the transports at Vladivostock, is prepared for immediate action. , The success of the Japanese caused a panic in Pekin and among the Court officials. The Empress of Japan personally manages the Red Cross Department, and provides the remedies, lint, and bandages required by the Medical Service. She is assisted by the whole of the Court ladies. Tokio, September 23. The ordinary railway traffic in Japan has been entirely suspended, and the whole of the rolling stock handed over to the military authorities for the transport of men and material. The Mikado will review the reinforcements before they embark at Hiroshima. London, September 23. Captain Inglis, formerly Naval Adviser to Japan, regards the fight off the Yulu river as the second greatest naval battle since Trafalgar. He considers that the result of the action tends to depreciate the value of heavy guns behind thick armour. Lord Charles Bereeford points but that the fact that scarcely a vessel on eithei side escaped severe injury is a wholetomc lesoon to Great Britain, and proves the importance of having a ressrve He suggests tbnt dockyards should he built "at Gibraltar, Malta and the Cape. A cruiser is being sent from Gibraltai to reinforce the British China squadron. Pbrth, This Day. The Japanese at Roebuck Bay subscribed £1000 in three days towards the war fund. :