The herald., 1894-11-24
The Third japanese Army En-.
barked for the Yang
tse-Kiang.
UNCLE SANS MEDIATION.
Peace Negotiations Progressing Satisfao.
torily Notwithstanding British
Jsers-New Treaty of
Amity Signed.

CHEE Foo, Nov. Z3.-DlspAtcheB have
been received here stating that the
Japanese captured Port Arthur on
Wednesday after Is hours OF hard
fighting.
LONDON. Nov. ga dispatch to the
Times from Chez Foo says Port Arthur
was taken Wednesday. The fighting
was continuous from noon of the Goth.
The Japanese feet did not take part in
the engagement. though the torpedo
boats attached to the feet did. The
Japanese are now leaving Port Arthur.
A Shanghai dispatch to the Times
confirms the report of the capture Of
Port Arthur. 1t says the Japanese tor
pedo boats distracted the forts while the
troops entered the town.
THE INVADING ARMY.
The second Chinese.Japanese army,
under the command of Field Marshal
Count Oyams, minister OF war, con-
sisted of about 10000 men, and when
this force arrived off the Regents Sword
promontory it was divided into two de.
tachments, one of which, aided by part
of the Japanese fleet, operated against
Tslien Wan, while the other directed its
movements against Kin Chow, on the
western side of the promontory, some
miles north Of Port Arthur. fallen
Wan and Kin Chow we're both captured,
after which the army again combined
and the march on Port Arthur was
commenced.
Several encounters OF minor inn
portance took place along the route, but
according to the reports the Japanese
were invariably successful. The roads
leading northward from Port Arthur
were supposed to have been mined by
the Chinese, and the Japanese com.
mands therefore declined to take the
risk of marching along them. Conse.
quently they were compelled to cnt
roads through the forests to allow the
passage of their artillery. ammunition
trains, etc. The march was necessarily
slow.
Dispatches received a few days ago
stated that the Japanese were close to
the city and had attacked the Chinese
outpostS, driving them back TO their en-.
trenchments. 1t was also said that the
Japanese attacked the entertainments
three times but we're repulsed each time.
1t 10 evident that later attacks must have
been made. and that the outposts were
compelled to fall back upon Port Arthur.
Several times the town is reported to
have been captured but later dispatches
have shown these reports were inaccu-
rate and that the Japanese were con-
Quoting their operations against the
place with great carefulness.
[Chee Foo, from which place the dis.
patch announcing the fall Of Port Arthur
is sent, is Chinese city on the north
coast on the Chang Tung promontory,
some 80 miles south of Port Arthur,
from which it is separated by the gulf OF
Pechili.
COUNT oYAMA's ARMY.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 23.-Count Oyama's
army is marching northward through
the Lao Tung promontory in the direc-
ton of Niuchwung. He has left 10. 600
troops behind for the investment OF Port
Arthur. After reaching Niuchwung, it
is said Oyama's destination will be
Shanghai Kwan, the terminus OF the
railroad to Ten Tsin.
The Chinese telegraph authorities are
openly altering and expunging messages
relating to the war.
The Monaghan and Chinese soldiers
at Jeh Ho have raised the standard OF
rebellion.
CAMP FOLLOWERS KILLED.
HIROSHIMA, Nov. ga steamer from
Moi reports that no assault had been
made upon Port Arthur up to November
10th.
Two interpreters and one war CORE.
spondent following the second Japanese
army have been captured and killed BY
the Chinese.
JAPANESE WAR LOANS.
YOKOHAMA, Nov. 23.-The minister Of
6nance mas announced farther war