The News-Herald. [volume] (Hillsboro, Highland Co., Ohio) 1886-1973, 1895-01-24
BOMBARDED.
Jap Ships Throwing, Shot Into the
City Of Te.g-Chow.
The Jananese Eject u LANDING at Yum.
ChinC-!:r;tis!i and Anne riran Narships
Go rom Cii.u TO Witness TIL Bonn
bardinent, Which Is In Progress.

LONDON, Jan. 21.-The Chifu CORES
pondent of the Central News says that
the Japanese began bombarding Teng-
Chow Saturday The British warship
Daphne and the American cruiser
Yorktown left Chifu to observe the
BON bardment, which is still in pro-
gress.
Except for few shots fired ut Chi
nese warships in the harbor OF Wei.
Hai-Wei early in the war. this is the
first time in this war that an attack
has been made upon any place on the
mainland of China. Teng-Chow is
fourishing city of $4,000 inhabitants
on the extreme northern part of the
promontory that juts out into
the Yellow sea and forms the
eastern portion of the province
of Shantung. 1t is on the same
coast with Chifu and Wei-Hai-Wci. ard
is west of them. The foreign warships
that have gone from Chifu to witness
the bombardment had to travel only
about fifty miles to reach the city that
the Japanese warships are now assail-
ing. The city is situated on the. Strait
| of Pe-Chi.Li, at the point where it be-
gins to merge into the Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li.
1t is little west of south of Port Ar
thur, and only about seventy miles from
| it, SO that the Japanese vessels issuing
| from the captured fort to the north
had only few hours sailing before
they reached the point of attack.
There was time when Teng-Chow
was great commercial rival of Chifu.
That was when the waters in the road
stead for it can hardly be called a
were able to push right up to the shore
and unload their merchandise in the
city. But the Hoang river has played
the mischief with Teng-Chow. Since
it left it's old bed and made new
course for itself far to the north, it has
been sitting it's great loads of sediment
far and wide over the bottom of the
Gulf of Pe-Chi-Li, and enormous guam
titles of it have been caught and de-
posted on that part of the coast that
projects farthest to the north.
1t is right here that Teng-Chow is
situated; and so the sea bed in front
Of it has long been filing up with the
yellow earth that ''China's sorrow" has
brought down to the sea. To-day
small vessels are notable to approach
the shore, and have to anchor far from
it. About three or four miles
from the shore, however, is a
narrow channel between the city
and the little island to the north,
known as the Strait of Miao-Tao The
rapid currents, here have kept the
channel comparatively clear of the
1 Hoang deposits and the water is about
sixty feet deep.
This is the only possible position
from which large warships might bonn
bard the city, and it is from this point
of vantage that the Japanese naval
vessels are pouring their shot and shell
into the big town.
Teng-Chow is not one of the ports
opened.to the. world by treaty, but,
through arrangements made by vari.
Gus powers, foreign trade has been
permittedsto some extent. This trade,
however, has been growing less from
year to year. This is the first time in
many years that the japanese have
seriously attacked any point on the
coast. Generations ago the people here
were in mortal terror of the Japanese
pirates.
The Times correspondent at Tien
Tsin confirms the report that the Jap
anese have made a landing at Yum
' Ching. Forty japanese ships passct
Shatung promontory Sunday, he says
The British squadron has been cruisin.
, in the neighborhood of the landing
place for a week.