overs
have lost one themselves. The Chinese ships that vers sunk were the ring-ruen, Lɛi-yuen, Bi-puen, Ching-ruen Pao-hua ! e doubtful about this name - She wes
499 despatch bost) and a tug boat. The Lai-yuen turned
bottom up,
and it is noticeable that her sister ahip
which was sunk at the Battle of the Yalu dia the same.
Pe sa* nothing of the tor; edo boat al-
tacks from the shore, but the following is what I have
heard from Japanese naval offieurs and other senircus. The beers consisted of wood baulks, about 15' x 1 ;*
arranged þerallel to one another, six or seven feat
apart, en thres wire hawsers of ons inga dimeter.
x 1
•
They stretched across both entrancea of the harbour:
that at the Eastern entrance extending from a joint
about 130 yards west of Port No.10 (1.e. that fort al
the East of Linkungtso on the Southern shore) to the
small island in the Channel, and thenes to the rocks
which mun out just Rest of Pert No.9 (the most Festerly
mainland fort at this entrance of the harbour). *staøen
the small island and Fort No. 3 there sure two small
openings made by putting the boame in echelon:
are using
to the shallowness of the water Ele southern end of the
boor