SLAUGHTER AND SPOILS.

North Otago Times, Volume XXXVII, Issue 8081, 20 September 1894, Page 4

SLAUGHTER AND SPOILS.

Tn tho ncenb encounbor with tho forean troopa, 3000 rifles of tho latest) French and German pattern, and 10 quick-firing guns wero captured by tho Japmese. These aro all tho modern firearms possoesod by tho Ooroans. Tho following is said to bo tho genuine reporb of tho fighb at Yashan : Tho Chineso general, thinking tho position of the oaiijp nob good, decided to movo to tobyowan, nob knowing bbab the Japanese wore marching from Seoul. With the usual Chineae dilatorinosa ho left 300 Ohinose minding somo stores ami ammunition, intonding bo meet them noxb day. The Chinese guarding tho stores wero attacked on both S'dea and, of course, nearly all were killed, bub the Japanese, raistak ing, bh rough the smoke, a party of their own men for Chinese, also fired on them, so that on the whole aboub 500 Japanese wore killed. A few Japanese soldiers came up from Yas* hao, and neported the following story : Some Chinese soldiers wore escaping to a Chinese junk when bhey were captured by the Japanese, who towed them off. Two soldiers tried to escape, when they werG promptly shot with nil the Chinese who wero on the junk.