WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN.

Taranaki Herald, Volume XLIII, Issue 10113, 20 September 1894, Page 2

WAR BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN.

JAPANESE INVADING CHINA. FURTHER DETAILS OF THE LATE BATTLE. By Electric Telegraphic — United Press Asiociation Copyright — Received 20J9J04 — 12.30 p.m. Shanghai, September 10. — Japanese are advancing on Moukdon. The engagement at Pengyang began at daybreak, and continued all day. The Japanese advanced in three columns, attacking on the centre, right, and the flank simultaneously. The Chinese were strongly entrenched in front, but weak in the rear. General Wai, Commander-in-Chief of the Manchurian Army, was taken prisoner. The victory was brilliant and complete. The Chinese stuck to their forts and were caught in a trap by the flanking column. The Japanese plans wero laid to this ond, and they took the precaution to have a superior force before making the final attack. Tho whole of the regiments of Chinese were seized with a panic on finding retreat impossible, and surrendered. The Chinese loss was 2,300 killed. The majority of tho IG,OOO prisoners aro wounded ; they surrendered within 10 hours. The Japanese are fortifying Pengyang, and have completed a telegraph line to Seoul. The flying columns are pushing northward to secure the passes and prevent reinforcements arriving. There is somo alarm in Shanghai at tho prospect of a possible invasion.