Salt Lake Herald | 1894-09-19 | Page 1 | Another Naval Engagement

Another Naval Engagement Shanghai Sept l8A naval engagement engage-ment has taken place off Yangu where a Chinese squadron was covering the landing of a large force The landing was effected but in the meantime a Japanese fleet attacked Vte assailants In the fighting that followed Ute Chinese warship Chip Yuen was sunk by the fire from the attacking flwt The Yang Wei also belonging to the Chinese squadron in attempting to get out of the range of fire and in man oeuvring for a position was run aground The other Chinese ship 53 also al-so reported to have been sunk The Japanese are also reported to have sustained a heavy loss three ot their vessels having been sunk by the fire from the Chinese Admiral Ting and Major Hannikln > j are reported having been killed during dur-ing the attack No estimates are made of the losses by either sides i