ANOTHER BATTLE IMMINENT.
JAPANESE TROOPS LANDED
AT CHEMULPOO.
Shanghai, September 22,
Chinese accounts of the recent naval engagement affirm reports that the Chin Yuen rammed and sank a Japanese warship, and that later on she herself sank owing to damage caused by shots which struck her below the water line.
It is stated that the Japanese warship Naniwa was set on fire by shots from the Chinese vessels, and that several English instructors and engineers were killed. Admiral Ting was wounded in the face and legs. The wounds were dressed on the deck, where he remained directing the operations of the right.
The Japanese report says that the vessels damaged in the engagement can be repaired in a week at sea, with the exception of the Matsushima, which will require to be docked. It affirms that no vessels were sunk.
Thirty-two Japanese transports, with 7,000 troops, 2,000 horses, and numerous batteries of artillery, have arrived at Chemulpoo and discharged their cargoes.
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Auckland Star, Volume XXV, Issue 228, 24 September 1894, Page 3
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