Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 37, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — SLAUGHTERED BY JAPS. [ARTICLE]

SLAUGHTERED BY JAPS.

Sixteen Thousand Chinese Soldiers Killed or Wounded In Hattie. Details of the battle between the Chinese and Ja; anese forces at Ping Yang show a decisfve victory for tho .laps and the utter rout ot the Chinese. The battle was opened at daybreak by a Japanese cannonade of the Chinese works, which was continued without cessation until afternoon, the Chinese responding. The work with the heavy guns showed good practice. Tnc firing continued at intervals during the night, and in the meantime two Japanese flanking columns had formed a cordon around tho Chinese. At 3 o’clo. k Sunday morning an attack was made by the .lapanose columns simultaneously and with admirable precision. The Chinese were completely taken by surprise an! were thrown into a panic. Hundreds were cut down and those who escap d death, finding thomselves surrounded at every point, broke and fled. Some of Viceroy Li Hung Chang’s European-drilled troops stood their ground to the eastward and were cut down to a man. Tho Pong San column, swarming over the defenses in front, completed the rout. Half an hour after the attack was opened the positions at Ping l ang were in possession of tho .lapaneso. It is estimate! that 20,000 Chinese soldiers were engaged in tho batt e. The Japanese captured immense stores of provisions, munitions of war, and hundreds of calbcs. The Chinese loss is estimated at b ,000 killed, wounded, and taken prisonors. Among those captured by the Japanese are several of the Chinese commanding officers, including Tso-Fung, commander-in-chief of the Manchurian army, wht was severely wounded. The Japanese loss is only thirty killed and 270 wounded, including eleven officers. Mo3t of tho casualties among the Japanese occurred during the first day’s fighting, and very few were the result of tho night attack.