THE CHINA-JAPANESE WAR.

Evening Star, Issue 9582, 31 December 1894, Page 2

THE CHINA-JAPANESE WAR.

We have been permitted to make the fol : lowing extracts from the letters of a European officer who holds a high command in the Chinese Navy. His letter was written immediately after the naval battle off the Yalu River:— At the naval battle of the Yaloo both the Japanese and Chinese chiefs engaged were conveying transports. The engagement lasted five hours. Two Chinese cruisers ran away and four were burnt and sunk, leaving the admiral and commodore in their respective ships to bear the brunt of the fight. Both these ships had European officers, and they stuck to their work until the Japanese retreated, the latter escaping by their superior speed. Commodore Tyler, in charge of the admiral's ship, was carried away from his post insensible on no less than three different occasions. Amongst other injuries he sustained he had both drums of his ears broken. . . . The Tsi-Yuen; an ironclad badly injured at the commencement of hostilities (and whose captain was beheaded for leaving the fight), is described by an eye-witness who visited the ship immediately after the engagement as presenting an awful appearance. ' The conning tower had eight shots through it, and was filled with the mangled remains of those who had been in it. The fore and aft turrets were in the same condition, and the ship wis a complete wreck .above the water-line, whilst the decks were littered with human remains.