3-082-052 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in Eastern Asia: sketches off Wei-Hai-Wei, 1895. 'Drawn by Mr. A. W. Wylde, H.M.S. "Leander." 1. The Japanese Main Squadron off Wei-Hai-Wei, Nov, 16. 2. The Armed Transport "Saikio Maru," at which three torpedoes were discharged by Chinese torpedo-boats in the action of Sept. 17. 3. The Japanese Advance Squadron reconnoitring Wei-Hai-Wei, Nov. 16. 4. Forts at Wei-Hai-Wei seen through a telescope; the Japanese Squadron in sight. 5. "Yayayama," Japanese Admiral's dispatch-vessel...After the fall of Port Arthur, every foreign journalist escaped as speedily as possible from the awful scenes which caused them to be apprehensive for their own safety...It appears from the account given by the special correspondent of the Times that the Chinese resisted bravely until the town was completely in the power of the invaders. Then began "a gratuitous ebullition of barbarism." Scores of Chinese were hunted down, shot, or hacked to pieces. Panic-stricken fugitives, in boats crowded to twice their usual capacity, were slaughtered mercilessly by the Japanese, whose thirst for blood reversed all their previous records for humanity. The story is most painful reading, for after the battle the outburst of vengeance was continued for four days'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.