THE WAR IN THE EAST.

New Zealand Mail, Issue 1194, 18 January 1895, Page 36

THE WAR IN THE EAST.

Shanghai, Januai*y 10. Severe fighting has taken place between the Japanese and Chinese at Jehoe, 120 miles N.E. of Pekin. Tho Chinese lost heavily. Shanghai, January 13. It is reported here that the British Government orderod Admiral Freemantle to use the entire force at his command, if necessary, to prevent the Japanese entering the Yang-tse-Kxang River. A friendly hint of this was conveyed to Tokio, which explains the inaction of tho Japanese fleet since the encounter at the Yalu River. Shanghai, January 14. The defeat of the Chinese at Kaiping was due to a flanking movement. Two hundred Chinese were killod. Ten thousand. troops intended to reinforce the Chinese at Kaiping, have now retreated to Yaing-stu and Port Nowchang. The negotiations for peace between China and Japan begin at Hiroshima on February Ist. The Manchurian Princes have taken the defence of the country into their own hands. Southern Manchuria is said to be in a ghastly condition, and it is reported that the entire population has perished, the region being reduced to a solitude, though full of food. Five thousand Mahomedan cavalry have arrived at Tientsin. Shanghai, January 14. The Chinese defeated at Kaiping were imder the command of General Seh. The artillery and cavairy, numbering 4000/ occupied a strong strategic position, but waited in vain for reinforcements, believing that they had been delayed by a snowstorm. In the meantime the former were surprised by the Japanese, who attacked them fiercely on both wings simultaneously. The Chinese were completely routed, and retreated towards the Great Wall. In the battle one of the Chinese Generals, Nich by name, was escaping in a carriage, when the Japanese killed his horses and almost captured him-. The Chinese, however, rallied, and rescued him. Shanghai, January 15. The British fleet has sailed for Japan. St. Petersburg, Jammry 14. The Novoe Vremya declares that if China and Japan persist in ignoring Russia's friendly counsels, Russia will be compelled to support her claims in Corea by arms. London, January 15. H.M.S. Pylades has been ordered to China.