THE COREAN WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XVI, Issue 4985, 26 March 1895, Page 2

THE COREAN WAR.

Tokio, March 25. 11l the Dicta resolution was carried dcploriug the attack on Li Hung Chang. (Received March 25,7 p.m.) Suaxuhai, March 24. Af tor being repulsed in theattompt to take Panghiu Island, one of the Pescadores Group, the Japanoso occupied Fisher Island, tho landing being effected without any opposition.

It is officially announced that the death roll of the Japanese forces during the present campaign numbers only seventeen hundred men, and that two-thirds of the deaths were caused by disease, The Japanese have purchased two more Chilian warships. The question of the declaration of an armistice will be the first matter j discussed between the Japanese Government, ami Li Hung Chang. Shanghai, March 25.. The Japanese Lave captured Thaoluiu Island.

Severe snowstorms are delaying the Japanese advance ou Kinchou. (Received March 26, la.m) Tokio, March 25. Li Hung Chang's wound is not of a dangerous nature, and no serious results arc feared. Koyania, the would-be assassin, states that he desired to rid Japan of her most formidable enemy. The Mikado and Count Ito, the Premier of Japan, are both incensed and grieved at the attack made on Li Hung Chang, and have expressed their profound sympathy with him.