The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1895-01-31
DUEL WITH ARTILLERY
Ten Thousand CeleStialS D;m0raliZld
by Shrapnel From The Jlplnsse Line.
OYAMA NOW ATTY UNG-CHENG
The Third Fleet o. Transports Have
Landed Their troops Without
Opposition-No Trace of the
Chinese to Be seen.

ENJOYS nave arrived at kob and will go TO
Hiroshima by train this afternoon, &C
companied by John w. Foster, who is act
ing as their advisor. Foster, replying to
n question as to the proposals the Chinese
ENJOYS were instructed to submit to
Japan, SAID that their nature might be in
ferred from the disastrous condition OF
China.
General Nogie reports from Styntsia,
under date OF Jan. %, that the Chinese are
near Yang Koo. Dispatches from Che
mulpo, Corea. say that the Japanese ana
Corean troops defeated the Tong Haks
Jan. 8 in the vicinity of Cheng Hang. The
Tong Haks lost heavily. The troops have
left Lilo Chow 20 attack the rebels at
Koshin.
LONDON. Jan. 3O.-A dispatch TO the
Central News from Toxic says that, under
the date of Haipng. Jan. "a (afternoon)
General Nog reports follows:
"The Chinese, 10000 strong. from Tai
Harlem advanced to our outermost lines
OF defense. Artillery only was employed
on both sides. The enemy was soon
routed, demoralized by our shrapnel, and
retreated in two bodies, one TO the north
ward and the other taking a northwesterly
direction"
A dispatch from Yuag-Cheng, dated Jan.
%, noon, says Field Marshal General
Oyama has established his headquarters
there. The third fleet of transports ar
rived ut daybreak on Jan. %. and the
troops they conveyed we're successfully
landed. Most of the civilian inhabitants
remaining in the vicinity are peacefully
disposed. Fuel and water are very scarce,
The engineers are repairing the roads in
order to enable the artillery to be moved
rapidly.
No opposition in landing troops has
been met with except on the occasion OF
landing the first detachment of marines,
when the resistance of the Chinese bat
terry was very feeble. The outposts do
not now find any trace of the enemy, who
has apparently retreated to Wei-Hai-Wei
or into the interior.
The Chinese peace ENJOYS are expected
to arrive in Japan on Jan. 80. The 81.
James Gazette publishes a dispatch from
| Shanghai, which says that the Japanese
government will not receive the Chinese
peace ENJOYS until they are clothed with
full power TO conclude peace. Advces
| from Pekin say an unsettled feeling pre-
walls there, and that fear of Japanese in
vasion of the city is increasing among the
natives.
| Lieutenant General Katsura, command
ing the left wing of the Fifth army, sends
reports from Haichang, Dec. 20 (via An
tong, Dec. 22) that the Chinese army of
| about 10000 strong, under General Sung,
retreating from Kaeping and moving in
the direction of Liaoyung, was passing
| not far from the Japanese encampment.
General Katsura determined to check
and break up the movement, sent out a
cons derable part of his division TO inter-
cept them.
On Dec. 10 Major General Oseko's bri-
gade encountered the Chin csc army at
Hungwasel, about eight miles west of
Haicheng. The brigade of Major General
Oshima came up soon after and joined
forces with Oseko's brigade. The United
Japanese force was four regiments of in
fantry and five batteries of artillery; that
| is, 80 guns.
! The Chinese made a very stubborn re.
sistance and the fighting lasted. off and
on, for nearly five hours. The Japanese
made four different charges through the
enemy, ultimately completely defeating
and routing them. The Chinese fled in
disorder, partly to the westward and
partly in the direction of New Chang and
| Yingkow. The latter is the name of the
treaty port and foreign settlement of New
Chang.
The Japanese guns were we'll served
and the Chinese loss must have been
heavy. but of these we have no details up
TO the present time. The Japanese losses
as reported later, we're three officers and
- petty officers and men killed. IL Off
GERS and 3i5 petty officers and men
wounded. OF the wounded 30) have been
taken to the hospital, the remaining
wounded not being sufficiently so 20 re-
uuire close attention. This was evidently
the most serious engagement. away from
stone walls and Notifications, which has
yet been met with by the Japanese army
| IA Mahchuria.
Later reports from Lieutenant-Ge Genera
Katsura, dated Hiacheng, Dec. u. state
that General Sung's defeated army. which
had fled toward New Chang, had been
there 10 mel bv the New Cn1ug forces
under General Ma, and that the unite
forces mad retreatcd to Tent hon + al
Japanese csvalrp scouts report a consid.
cradle Oh nese force at Ta-Shau-L en-, be
tween kaeping and Ningkow. and thai
1900 soldiers from Iiugkow had joined a.
The force was slid To- be extending it.
front and had many banners