The Big Stone Gap post. [volume] (Big Stone Gap, Wise County, Va.) 1892-1928, 1895-01-24
! D(,MBARDED..
Jap Ships Throwing Shot Into the
City OF Teng-C Chow. !.
Tho ,ssuanase EHece y landing st Sefa-
Ching-a,ritssaa and sAmsrirnn 1efshlpa
Go rrom chifu 90 Witness the Eom-
bar,imesss. Srhlch 10 In Progrsss

LONDON. Jan. 2L--Theg Chifu cOfrSS-
pondent OF the Central News says that
the japanese began bonn harding Teng-
Chow Saturday. The British warsh'p
Daphne and the American cruiser
Yorktown left Chifu to observe the
bonbsrdment, which is still In pro-
gress. ]
Except for few shotsr fred at CHI
nese warships in the hsrbor Of Vol
lIai-Wei early in the war, this Is the
first time in. this war that an attack
has been made upon any place on the
nainland Of China. Tcng.C Chow Is
fiourishing city Of 100000 inha bitants
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 IL on the same
coast with Chifu and Wei-Hai..Wei, and
ia 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 arc now nssail-
ing. The city is situated on the Strait
OF Pc-Chi-Li. 1T the point where It be-
gins TO merge into the Gulf OF Pe-chi-Li.
: It is q little west OF south of Port Ar.
thar. and only bout seventy miles from
il, 30 that the Japanese vessels issuing
from the captured fort to tho north
had only few hours sailing before
j they reached the point OF attach.
There was 4 time whom Teng-Chow
was o great commercial rivalof Chifu.
That was when the waters in the road.
stead (for it can hardly be called q
harbor) were very deep. Tho -junks
were nble to push right upto She shore
aud unload their merchandise in the
city. Rutthe Hoang river has played
the mischief with TengChow. Since
il 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 IL have been caught and de-
posted, ON that part of the, coast that
projects sarthest to the north.
It is right here that Teng-Clsow is
situated; and SO the sea bed in front
of it has long been filing up with the
yellow earth that China sorrow" has
brought down to the sea. To-day
small vessels are not able to approach
the shore. and have TO anchor far from
it. About three or four miles
from the shore. however, is o
narrow channel between the city
and the little island TO the north.
known as the Strait of Miao-Tao Tho
rapid currents here have kept the
channel. comparatively clear OF the
Hoang deposits and TAG water de- about
sixty feet deep.
This is the only possible position
from which large warships might bonn
bard tho city, and 1t is from this point
Of vantage that tho japanese naval
vessels arc pouring their shot and she'll
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
permitted to some extent; This trade,
however, has been growing less from
year TO year. This is tho 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
nnese have made landing at Yum
Ching. Forty Japanese ships passed
Shstung prolnontory sunday, ha says.
The British squadron has been cruising
in the neighborhood Of the landing
place for week.