Lancaster Standard and County Advertiser. — 1894-09-21 (Lancaster, Lancashire, England)

CHINA AND JAPAN.  A Shanghai telegram says the whole of Southern Corea has risen sgainst the Japaneee. A body of 2,000 Japanese which recently left Fossil to march to Seoul was so harassed by the Coreans that they were compelled to return, but only 800 in reaching Fusan again. Two thousand fresh Japanese troops are at Fusan guarding the neighbouring Japanese settlement of Serie. The •• New York Herald's" correspondent says: The ' • • ' •- " •  Japanese night attack on rWeihaiwei on August 11th was defeated through a British war.hip warning the Chinese _by . salute.  ..... The news from the seat of war in the East describes "a hot engagement" at Sing Chuen, in which the Chineue were defeated and both sides lost heavily, and a repulse of the Japanese, with heavy slaughter, at Ping Yang. The Japanese, says a telegram from Seoul, are straining every nerve to deliver a crushing blow before winter puts a stop to warlike movements. The murderers of Mr. Wylie, the missionary, have been executed.  Borne serious fighting is at length reported from Core. On Saturday morning the Japanese opened • cannonade upon the Chinese works at Ping Yang, and tiring continued throughout the day and night. On Sunday morning the Japanese columns drew a cordon round the Chinese forces —numbering, it is stated, 20.000 men,—and, taken by surprise. the Chinese wore cut down wholesale. In half an hour the position was in the hands of the Japanese, with its immence quantities of stores, arms, and ammunition. The Chinese lois is given at 16,000—killed, wounded, and prisoners, —amongst the prisoners being the Commander es Chief of the Manchurian army. The killed are mid to number about 2.300. The Japanese loss is pat at 30 killed and 270 wounded. The telegram from Seoul reporting the battle says that until China gets adother army from the mainland into the peninsula Corea will be practically in the hands of the Japanese.  A telegram respecting the lighting of Saturday and Sunday has been received direct from Ping Yang. It gives the total Chinese loss in killed, wounded, and prisoners as over 17,000. The total number of unwounded prisoners is about 14,500, and amongst the captives are five Generals —practically. says the telegram, the effective Chinese staff. The prisoners are to be sett to Japan. From Pekin comas a report that the Emperor, persuaded that the defeat of his army was due to the mismanagement of the Viceroy, has issued ari edict depriving Li Hung Chong of his three-eye peacock's feather.  A great naval battle between Chinese and Japanese ships was fought on Sunday. A number of Chinese transports, protected by a squadron of warships, had been landing troops at the mouth of the Yalu river when the Japanese ships appeared and engaged the Chinese. The Chili Yuen, a powerful ship, ws.s sunk by a torpedo, and the King Yuen, a first-class armour-clad ship, was also sunk. Two other Chinese ships were driven ashore. on fire, and two or three of the transports are missing. The Chinese allege that four of the Japanese ships were sunk. The engagement lasted six hours, at the end of which time, according to Chinese accounts, the Japanese squadron withdrew. Half a dozen Chinese ships have put into Port Arthur, all badly damaged and fall of wounded men, and from particulars gleaned there it is believed that the Chinese loss in killed and wounded Sc about 1,500, and the Japanese loss about 1,000. An official Chinese version of the fighting at Ping Yang admits the victory of the Japanese.