The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-10-29

Washington, Oct. 2S-The Japanese
which confirms the news published this
morning in dispatches from Shanghai,
of a second victory of the japanese
army under Marshal Yamagata. The
telegram is dated Hiroshima, and reads
as follows:
Before dawn of October 26. our
army, under Marshal Yamagata, at
tackled Ken Len Chen, one of the i'm
portant strongholds upon the Chinese
frontier.
The place was defended by $1,000
troops under Generals Lin and Song.
They fled, after offering only slight
resistance, and the Japanese forces
took possession Of the Notifications
and the city. They captured thirty
large field guns, an immense quantity
of rice, food of other kinds, etc, and
more than 300 tents. The Japanese loss
was 20 killed and % wounded. The
Chinese loss, more than 200 killed. The
exact number of their woundede is not
known"
It is believed at the Japanese lega-
ton that the General Lin mentioned
in the above dispatch is the noted
Chinese commander, who played suclh
a prominent part during the Tonking
difficulty and TO whom it wac recently
reported Viceroy Ii had offered the
chief command of the Chinese army.
Excites the Japs' Derision.
The Japanese legation has received
its first mail of Japanese newspapers
since the battle Of Yalu and Ping Yang,
and they are filled with the details OF
the engagements, and lists of killed and
wounded, accounts of heroism and
other evidences of war. The bad tacti-
cal methods of the Chinese soldiers
eXcites the derision of the Japanese.
The latter point out that the Chinese
erect breastworks and sit quietly with
in them without sending out skirmisa-
ers to pass the enemies. The Chinese
soldiers also raise a number of ban
nerS just as they fire a volley, so the
Japanese troops know when a shower
of lead is impending. The Chinese also
exhaust their cartridges in the maya
zine guns as fast as they can fire them,
making them hail Of bullets and then
a long calm. The rifles captured from
the Chinese show rust of long stand
ing and other careless treatment. A
touching story is told of a japanese
bugler who had just sounded the
charge" when he received a bullet in
the breast. He was urged to lay aside
his bugle, as any fresh exertion would
make a hemorrhage, proving fatal. His
reply was another blast of the charge"
as he toppled over.
The members of the Japanese house
Of peers have sent half a million cigar
cites to the soldiers.
Snow fell in Japan on September 20,
which is the earliest in ten years.
Worse Than Carnegie.
A Toxic paper states that prior to a
Chinese naval inspection by Ii Hung
Chang, the men manufactured cannon
balls out of clay, painted them black
and passed inspection with this bogus
equipment.
The gold ingots captured by the
Japanese at Ping Yang amount to 7OO,-
900 yen.
Count Oyama, the war minister, has
issued proclamation urging troops to
show every kindness to Chinese wound
ed, adding that they should not be
more anxious to display carnage than
charity
The japanese naval experts say tor
pedo boats proved a failure at the Va
lu naval battle.
The japanese clerk recently beheaded
in Tin Tsin is supposed to be one of
two students surrendered by the Amer
lean consul.