People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 9, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 17 August 1894 — BADLY WHIPPED. [ARTICLE]

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Chinese Defeated with a Loss of 1,000 Men at Song llwan. London, Aug. 31. —Dispatches from Shichi-Gen, Corea, confirm the reports of the engagement between Japanese and Chinese troops at Song Hwan and the vie tor y of the former. About 1,000 Chinese were killed in the engagement and seventy Japanese. The latter showed their superiority over the former in every detail of the battle. They were more courageous, and showed a greater knowledge of the art of war. The Chinese, with their usual cowardice, deserted many of the Fan Kwai (foreign devil officers), and when given orders to resist the advance of the enemy turned and fell upon their swords, preferring to commit suicide rather than be murdered by the Japanese. The Japanese officers and men fought like tigers.