The War Between China and Japan.
THE KAIPING ENGAGEMENT. | Per Press Association.! Shanghai, January 14. The Chinese defeated at Kaiping were under the command of General Sen. The artillery and cavalry numbering 4000, occupied a strong strategic position but waited in vain for reinforcements, believing that they bad been delayed by a snowstorm. In the meantime the former were surprised by the Japanese, who attacked them fiercely on both wings simultaneously. The Chinese were coinpletly routed and retreated towards the Great Wall. In the battle one of the Chinese Generals, Nich by name, was escaping in a carriage, when the Japanese killed his horses and almost captured him. The Chinese, however, rallied and rescued him. January 15. The British fleet has sailed for Japan.
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Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1895, Page 2
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124The War Between China and Japan. Feilding Star, Volume XVI, Issue 169, 16 January 1895, Page 2
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