WAR IN COREA.
THE NAVAL BATTLE.
THE SECOND GREATEST SINCE
TRAFALGAR.
A WHOLESOME LESSON TO
ENGLAND
London September 23. Caxtain Inglis, formerly naval adviser to Japan, regards the fight off the Yalu River as the second "greatest naval battle since Trafalgar. He considers the result of the action tends to depreciate the value of heavy guns behind thick armour.
Lord Charles Beresford points out that the fact that scarcely- a vessel on either side escaped severe injury is a wholesome lesson to England, and proves the importance of having a reserve. He suggests that dock-yards should be built at Gibraltar, Malta and the Cape.
Shanghai, September 23.
The success of the Japanese has caused a panic in Pekin and among the Court officials.
The Empress of Japan personally nwraages the Red Cross Department, and provides the remedies, lint and bandages required by the medical service. She is assisted by the whole of the Court ladies.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 228, 24 September 1894, Page 3
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