The Jersey City news. (Jersey City [N.J.]) 1889-1906, 1895-03-28

WONDERFUL JAPAN.
Details by Mail of Her
Extraordinary Fighting
Performances.
GENERAL KATzuRo'S BRILLIANT COUP
Ships Have No Show Against Forts
-Ghastly Incidents OF the
War Atloat.
GENERAL KATzURO'S BRILLIANT COUP
BIZ Cable to the United Press.

toria, B. c., March %, 1S95.-The Japan
ese in Southwestern Manchuria have
completely broken and dispersed power
ful armies that were opposed to them,
and there has been a long interval OF
comparative inaction on the part of the
japanese. A division of the First Army
occupied Hal Cheng on December Is, and
a brigade of the Second Army pro-
ceeded to Tai Ping on January 10, and
the outposts of the two forces were soon
in communicat ton. The situation then be-
came thus japanese lines extended
from Tai Ping forty miles north toward
Hal Cheng, and thence struck eastward
to point twenty miles north of Feng-
hwan. The Chinese lines were nearly
parallel throughout the whole distance.
their principal basis being Ying Kow and
Tien Chang Tai. on the south. and Liao
Yang. on the north. In that interval the
Chinese have three armies--the Lao Yank
army, of twenty thousand men. which
placed itself so as to cover the roads
leading north from Hai Cheng to Laio
Yang; the New Chwang army. OF twenty
Thousand, posted In and about New
Chwang. northwest of Hal Cheng and
fourteen miles distant, and the Ying
Kow army. of thirty thousand massed
around Y.ng Kow, twenty-five miles
northwest of Kai Ping, and having its
headquarters at Tien Chwang Tai, nine
teen miles further west on the coast of
Pechili Gulf. The two Japanese armies
were q division, and q brigade aggregat-
ing about thirty thousand, under Lieu
tenant-General Katzuro, in Hal Cheng,
and the brigade of about eight thousand,
under Lieutenant Kawahji in al Ping.
Thus on one side there were thirty
eight thousand men. on the other seventy
thousand. These odds would have been
as nothing to the Japanese had an imme-
diate advance been an object, but as a
movement farther west into Manchuria
did not enter into their plan OF cam
paign until the approach of spring they
remained quietly in Kai Cheng and Hal
.Cheng.
VAIN ASSAULTS.
Against the latter which was the key
to the japanese position. indeed of the
whole position in Sinking. the Chinese
made repeated assaults, but on an excur-
sion they were driven back with such
ease that the affair was mere iasco.
Finally towards the close of February,
Wei Hal Wei having been taken, and
there remaining only the final operation
came necessary to break up the Chinese
forces in Sinking for two reasors.-
First because Ying Kow (nodern New
Cnwang) would furnish most convenient
base for an army operating against Pc
kin.) and second. because It was desir-
able to free as large a number OF Japan
ese troops in Sinking. SO as they might
join in the march against Pekin. Great
however. as is the. disparity between the
fighting capacity of Japanese and Chinese
troops, it was not simple problem that
the Japanese Generals IN Sinking had
to solve. With thirty eight thousand
ffrraa n Cd INF 1.fAdi of hi,-+1
thousand and eight thousand, separated
by distance of forty miles, they had
to s at. attack three Ch,nese arm armies aggre-
over a front of some sixty miles. The
method adopted was no less bold than
Ping forces started forward its outposts
so as to occupy an important position
N the Chinese lines. thus creating the
against Ying Kow. General Sung. who
was commanding at Ying Kow, attempt
ing force of between fifteen and twenty
thousand for the purpose, but was 50
severely beaten that his connection with
the other two Chinese armies on the
north was for the moment severed.
KATzUROiS ADVANCE.
Katzuro moved 'o Of Of Hal cheng ana
threw fifteen thosand men at the Lao
Yang. army on his north. crushing it
twenty miles towards Koa Yang in such
a disintegrated condition that all chance
of its rally.ng and resunling its place
destroyed. So resolute was Katzuro's
advance that the public never suspected
him OF yn any diesiSfp ief except to march upon
saw that If that were Katzuro's pur-
pose he was violating the rules of sound
warfare for his line of advance was now
tion and ne was leaving on his left rear
in New Chwang a hostile army of twenty
Il,@4 ~,
days OF this northward movement, Kat
EURO turned into road leading directly
to New Chwang. and on the 5th of March
he delivered a fierce attack against that
place from two directions the brigade
that he left behind in Hal Chang attack
ing from third direction simultaneously.
They lost about one thousand eight hun
dred killed and three thousand prisoners.
toward Ying Kow. against which place
the Kai Ping brigade, taking advantage
of the confusion caused by Katzuro's
capturing i It without vi l W difcuity W p but fo los
ing two men by the explosion Of
the e forta a4o to te southwest sou Of Il the e town.
on the banks of the Lao River. Rem
nants of the Ying Kow and New Chwang
Tai. the whole Of the japanese armies
'o'1iD-''e HEAVY FfGHTING. - p'S'SS
Tien Chwang Tai lies on coast road
leading. from Ying Kow to China proper,
and being situated on the opposite side
of the Lao River. which is very wide
at that point, offers great facilities for a
defence. But the river, being frozen
over It's passage by the japanese troops
presented no special difficulty. They at
tacke6, as Is their wont from three
directions. The fight began at 7 A. M.
with hot cannonade from the Japanese
and at 1890 the place was In the pos
session of the japanese. The Chinese
defenders do not appear to have aggre-
gated more than ten thousand OF the
fifty thousand troops forming the New
Chwang and Ying Kow armies. only a
fifth part retained semblance of CO.
hesion after the operations which began
on February "a and ended on March 9.
The Chinese fed along the coast road,
dead upon the field. The. Japanese casu-
aIties were ninety-six killed and wound
ed With the taking Of Tien Chwang
Tai the Chinese armies IN Southern
Sinking are completely broken and scat
tered Ying Kcw. or modern New
Chwang. lies sor the bank of the Lao
River abot thirty miles by road from
Old Town. New. Chwang, where katzuro
won his decisive victory on March 5, is
thirteen miles from the mouth of the
river The river itself is the chief water
way in Western Shinking; and the means
of communication with the capital Muk-
FOREIGN ETTIlEMENT.
foreign settlement, ablished there
In 1861. has now four hundred inhaf't-
ants whose protection were two gun
boats one American and one British,
which were stationed there at the com
mencement OF the winter, and have re-
mained there ever since hecanse they are