People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 15, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 28 September 1894 — THE WAR IN THE EAST. [ARTICLE]

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

Later Report* from the Two Great Recent Engagement*. Shanghai, Sept. 22. —Field Marshal Yarnagata, commanding the Japanese forces in Corea, is marching with 45.000 troops against Moukden from the southeast. The object of attack is one of thp strategic points and should it fall into Japanese hands the progress of the invaders of Chinese soil would be made much less difficult. The Chinese will make a desperate effort to hold their ground and a fierce conflict is expected when the opposing forces meet. The advance of the Japs bears out the idea of their determination to force their way* to the interior and take possession of Pekin. The value of the stores and ammunition captured by the Japanese at Ping Yang is reported to be 83,000,000. London. Sept. 22. —Dispatches received here from Shanghai say that the total number of the Chinese fleet engaged in the battle fought off the mouth of the Yalu river was twelve warships and four torpedoboats. The Japanese fleet, it is added, was composed of seventeen ships, some of which were small war vessels. The Chinese claim to have sunk the Japanese warships Abushima and Yosr-ina and a Japanese transport which had been converted into a cruiser and named the Saiko. A private report received here from Shanghai declares that these vessels were not sunk, as the Chinese claim, but that they retired from the action in a disabled condition. It is reported that the Chinese transport Toonan was sunk after she had landed her troops, but this is thought to be probably incorrect. The report that Admiral Ting and Col. Von Hannekin were severely wounded seems to be incorrect, for they have both returned to duty'. The officials of the Japanese legation here have received a private cable message from Yokohama saying that on September 16 twelve Chinese warships encountered nine Japanese ships, with the result that after severe fighting the Chinese lost four vessels and the Japanese none. London, Sept. 24.—The Berlin correspondent of the Standard says that negotiations are in progress between Germany. England and Russia relative to the war between China and Japan, and that identical instructions will probably be sent to their respective ministers at Pekin.

London, Sept. 24.—A dispatch to the Central News from Shanghai dated 6 p. m.. September 21, says: “The commanding officers of four of the Chinese warships were killed in the engagement off the mouth of the Yalu river. Admiral Ting was wounded in the cheek and leg, but in neither ease seriously. Five of the transport ships are still missing. Three Chinese transports are reported to have been captured. All of the Chinese warships that were not sunk are badly damaged. The Japanese ships are preparing for another attack.” Washington, Sept. 24. Dispatches received at the Japanese legation here give further confirmation of the sea fight off \ r alu and add the interesting information that the empress of Japan, as- chief patroness of the Red Cross society in that country*, is personally engaged daily with her court ladies in preparing bandages, lints, etc., for the wounded Chinese as well as Japanese engaged in the recent great battles of Ping Yang and Yalu. The activity of the empress in personally directing the humane work of the Red Cross while the emperor has gone to the front is a source of pride among the Japanese officials here. Mr. Kurin©, the new Japanese minister, was in consultation with Secretary Gresham for some time in pursuance of the negotiation of a new treaty of trade and commerce, which will contain no assertion of the right of extra-territorial jurisdiction by the United States in Japan. London, Se-pt. 25.—A dispatch to the Times from St. Petersburg says: “it is reported here that Chinese marauders have attacked the station of the new Ussuri section of the Siberian railway, plundered the telegraph office and killed eight Russian employes. It is feared feat the government will make this a pretext to interfere in the Corean struggle between China and Japan.”