CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12] — Page 504

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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.

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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