People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 38, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 9 March 1895 — KILLED BY JAPANESE. [ARTICLE]

KILLED BY JAPANESE.

NINETEEN HUNDRED DEAD CHINAMEN ON THE FIELD. Five Hundred Prisoners are Taken — Sanguinary Engagement Takes Place March 4 —Extends Into the Might—ln vader's Doss Slight—Cable Mews. Hiroshima, March 7.—A dispatch received here from Gen. Nodzu, dated Hai Ching, March -1, says that two divisions of the first Japanese army assaulted New Chwang proper at 10 o’clock on the morning of that day, and entered the city at noon. A portion of the enemy’s forces at once fled to Yien Kow, the New Chwang settlement. The remaining Chinese troops made a stubborn resistance, occupying the houses of the city. Some desperate street fighting followed and the Chinese were

completely routed at 11 o’clock at night, leaving 1,900 killed upon the field. The Japanese captured 509 prisoners and sixteen guns, together with a quantity of munitions of war and colors. The Japanese loss was 206 killed and wounded. A later dispatch from tie front says that at 8 o'clock on the morning of March 4 a force of 10,000 Chinese under Gen. Lung advanced upon Taping 9’, mg. but were repulsed by the fire of ti e .’ananese artillery. The Chinese retreat".! i of are noon. The Japanese sustained no loss. Kir.!-. Wife and I-ive Children. London, March 7. —At Tooting. Surrey, this morning, an unemployed plasterer named Tuylr r. having »-i-me despondent from long idler,ess, murdered his wife and li\ e children and then Killed himself. The IriMianl 1;.-!<’»*<<1. London, March 7.—The steamer Friesland, which v. nt aground at Port Said, has been floated and will proceed.