CO129-269 - Governor Sir Robinson & Public Offices - 1895 [12] — Page 559

the immense importance of Yurman and the Upper Yangtze :

to us Yaman is the richest matalliferous country in the

world almost; it joins Burma, and is better in our hands

those

than in re of the Prench; in any case, 13 it remains

Chinese, a railway should be run to Tchang, where the

rapids can be remedied by engineering of no great

difficult7, this would give stams corvmunication, from

Quatta to Shanghai; this scheme is also on foot and ought

to be strongly supported at home, and the concession

frung from the Chinese if they will not see the ad-

vantage of railways.

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To hear to-day, that the Japanese forcas in

Kanchuria hava advanced, are pushing far and Wu ta chẳng

before then and that they have heavily defeated the

Chinese at the Taling Ho and are advancing on Kinchon;

fugitives from Kinchoy are cosing through Shan hai kyan ú -ao-large numbers, and 1,000 rounded aro on their way

hare;

A

L

tao merchant atoamera report thas on their way

here they noticed the lights of an immense fleet in

Hope Sound (Miao-tao Island lat.37° 50' N.long.)

1:0° 35' .); this looks like business at last for us

The Chinese ara raported to have several large junka

ladan with stores, which they intend to sink in the

channal, they will probably spoil the river if they do;

there must be same truth in this as sometima ago they

trind so bus an old láchter for the sero purpose from the

and

Taku Tuɛ y? Lighter dompany.

17th Merebe

554

J lewe just lød a conversation

with Pylor, who demanded the Tingruan; he tolle ma that

before the Japeness arrived the soldiers in the Yester

and practically all tlm mainland forta, said they would

not fight, and most of them did not but ran anar, la

wanted all the forte to be destroyed because their sins

took the island forte in rver but they would not do it,

consequently the Forts on Banter and of Lig Mungtao and

on I-tao, Buffered severely in muo, tho lone buing ch.15

caused b; $hrapnel, the Tingruan was only strick enos by

& ebot which went through her funnel; vlor and Nowia

offered to take 100 men nalore und ert Ho... fort/ -läch

Tas causing to mich ennorance and signals more rup

for voluntaurs to go ssboroj ovary sailer, exempt the

officers vol intesred, and spent much of tw nielit in

Preparing for 11, but for some reason or other the scitur

the Xingyuan sen torpedoed at

fall throuargīt

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was beached at high tide, the cres remained on board that

day, the next night and the next day; the night wan

#D

as full one and the gallora said tiny would not go thenighı

another ono, tley wore #itlust frush water, tix tanke

having been destroyed by the tomodo, no clothing and

the ship sinking into the mud, the idue of torching the

ship was to fight her from lar position,

but that es

tried