People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 20, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 2 November 1894 — CHINESE FORT IS TAKEN. [ARTICLE]

CHINESE FORT IS TAKEN.

An Important Victory I* Won by the Mikado's Forces at Port Arthur. Washington, Oct. 31.—Two important and significant Japanese victories are reported by United States Minister Denby in a cablegram to the state department from Peking. He says that the Chinese forces have been defeated by Chin Lien Cheng and have retreated to Moukden; he also reports that th? Japanese have taken one of the Chinese forts at Port Arthur. The Japanese minister is gratified at the receipt of the Denby dispatch, which seems to foreshadow the early capitulation of Port Arthur. The capture of this place, from a military and strategic standpoint, he says, can hardly be overestimated. The capture of Port Afthur is a plti't of the Japanese movement upon Peking, and when effected will make the march to the Chinese capital a matter of more easy accomplishment. The Japanese minister lias received a report that upon the landing of the Japanese troops at Ta-len-Wai on Saturday last the Chinese war vessels at Port Arthur immediately took flight and did not stop until they had arrived at Wei-hai-Wei, another strong point which, like Port Arthur, guards the entrance to the Gulf of Pechili. The report states that this sudden departure of the Chinese vessels was made without the firing of a gun and at a time when the Japanese army under Marshal Oyama was still a number of miles distant.