3-082-490 - The Print Collector/Heritage Images

The War in Eastern Asia: where the unsuccessful Chinese Embassy resided at Nagasaki, 1895. 'LANDING AT NAGASAKI OF THE CHINESE PEACE EMBASSY...The Japanese naval squadron made an attack on the small islets of Pescadores, off the...island of Formosa, and effected a landing there. The northern ports of Formosa are blockaded by Japanese ships. Li-Hung-Chang, the Chinese Plenipotentiary Ambassador for terms of peace with Japan, while daily attending the conferences with Count Ito and Viscount Mutsu, at Simonoseki, was on Saturday, March 23, assaulted by a lunatic assassin...he was shot at with a pistol by a Japanese youth named Koyama...who is said to be insane. The bullet inflicted a slight wound in the face, but Li-Hung-Chang's life, which has been illustrious and serviceable to China, is not in danger...Our Illustrations include a picture of the residence at Nagasaki occupied by the embassy which vainly visited Japan some weeks ago with unsatisfactory credentials, failing to effect any step towards peace. When the embassy returned to Kobe the mob showed a very unfriendly attitude, which necessitated a strong escort of police. From Sketches by Mr. Lionel C. Barff, Hong-Kong and Shanghai Banking Co'. From "Illustrated London News", 1895.