3-082-348 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

Wei-Hai-Wei: eastern entrance, 1895. 'A Small Island well Fortified; Torpedo Boats; Chinese Cruiser; Chinese Fleet moored; Large [?illegible]; Forts; Signal Station; H.M.S. AEolus. Facsimile of a Sketch by Mr. James Fuller, H.M.S. "AEolus." The Japanese have taken possession of the arsenal, forts, and war-ships at Wei-hai-Wei with the order and method which have distinguished them on previous occasions. The Chen-Yuen, having been repaired sufficiently to be seaworthy, has sailed for Japan. Marshal Oyama and his staff are living in the buildings till lately occupied by the Chinese Government, and a careful inventory of the contents of the torpedo-station is being taken. The Japanese Government is asking its Parliament to sanction a fresh vote of credit amounting to 100,000,000 yen. Already 150,000,000 yen has been spent on this war. There is, it is stated, no intention on the part of the Japanese to occupy Chefoo. The bird's-eye view of that important place which we give on another page shows it to be thickly populated'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.