THE WAR IN COREA.

Waikato Times, Volume XLIII, Issue 3470, 25 September 1894, Page 5

THE WAR IN COREA.

(by elkoxrio telegraph,-copyright), Shanghai, September 22. Chinese accounts of the recent naval engagement affirm the reports that the Chin Yuen rammed and sank a Japanese warship, and that later on she herself stink owing to damage caused by shots which struck her below the water line.

It is stated that the Japanese war» ship 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 dresjed on the deck, where he remained directing the operations of the fight. The Japanese report says that the vessels damaged in the engagement cau be repaired in a week at sea, with the exception of the Matsushima, which will require to be docked. It affirms that no vessels wer6 sunk, Thirty .two Japanese transports with 7000 troops, 2000 horses, and numers ous batteries of artillery, have arrived at Chemulpoo and discharged theircargoes,

September 23. The Japanese estimate the Chinese losses prior to the Ping Yang and Yalu engagements at 3000, chiefly in small actions, the news of which was suppressed. The Chinese are pouring reinforcements into Monkden in anticipation of a Japanese attack and the place is being rapidly reinforced, London, September 20.

The naval engagement between the Japanese and Chinese off the Yalu River has been much discussed in England, and stimulates fresh demands for increase of the British Navy. September. 23. The Japanese legation are officially informed that the loss at the battle of Yalu was ten officers, and sixty-nine men killed, and 169 wounded. Tokio, September 22. 1 The Japanese Government has des cided to prosecute the war vigourously before winter sets in, Reinforcements to the number of eighty thousand men have been ordered to the front.