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Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 48367, 28 September 1894, Page 3

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HHb (Received Sept. 28,1 a.m.) London, September 27. HHHB'draft l lias' been ordered from HHHRldftrshot' to reinforce. the British Hongkong. • Shanghai, September 27. W) ®n eye-witness of tho recont naval VJ > /iigagement betweon the Japanese Qjjinoso warships declares \ <Sy AdmnjkTing, of the latfoiylisijjMi P 080 '! his sm[)s in such a wcdge-liko 'im*. slinpo,with the Cngship as apex,that ImJI of ; the fleet wore inactive for their;friends. Tho ■Hnjllpr the f orco of their firo on ■H Ohineso warship King. Yuen shot' holes in her, chiefly by fired by tho miichine guns, -her armour was pierced to a ■BBTpth. of three inches. The Chen had 120 holes in hor built is estimated that several months will elapso before tho fleet can bo repaired. Tho Kuan Glii was stranded after tho engagement, and was blown up. The Tsy Yuen accidentally rammed and sank a sister vessel, ljlie report that a Japanese war- , y litis believed that tho Japanese ' ceadltt the attack owing to a deficient of ammunition. tj. Chinese captain was executed on a charge of cowardice,, Tho Europeans raiding in the Chinese treaty ports aro forming a self-defence corps owing to the hostility displayed towards them by the populace. It is reported that Japan has borrowed L 5,000,000 in Russia, (Received Sept. 28,10.40 11.111.) / Small,u, September 27. !■ I Reports received here state that /attacks by tho Japanese on Anchow ! and Jichow were repulsed. \ Japanese cruisers are scouring the | Yellow Sea. Tho China Merchants Company selling their ships to neutral RBBflngs and thero is a panic in the mercantile world.