LATER PARTICULARS.
JAPANESE ADVANCING ON PEKIN (Per Press Association.) Shanghai, October 2. Official accounts of the battle at Ping Yang declare that only 12,000 Chinamen were present, of whom 9000 escaped. This agrees with later Japanese accounts and explains the small number of actual prisoners. The Chinese officials at Pekin fear that the Japanese will capture the capital, owing to the discontent with the present dynasty and the unreliability of the soldiers. Five thousand Japanese soldiers have arrived at Possiet Bay, close to the Russian frontier. October 3. On September 28th the Japanese fleet was ten miles off Skankaikwan. A war levy is being made on the Chinese merchants.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 85, 4 October 1894, Page 2
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109LATER PARTICULARS. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 85, 4 October 1894, Page 2
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