The Nippon Yusen Kaisha' s steamer Takasago-maru, which arrived here on Saturday morning from Chefoo, appears to hay" had a narrow escape from destruction, as she was fired on by " British warship outside the istand of Liukungto. The mail steamer left Chefoo at 3 p.m. on Wednesday last for this port, and at about 6.30 o'clock that afternoon when she was running on accurse from Eddy Island to a point two miles off the Shantung promontory, two British warships, the cruiser Terrible and the battleship Oc.an, supposed to have been engaged in gun' practice, ade a their appearance off Weihaiwei. distance of about seven miles separated the Japanese steamer from the two warships. One the passengers who was watching through his glasses the morenents ofthe British vessels, remarked that the battleship was prepeting to fire. Shortly after this a shot fell into th water at a distance of 200 yards from the steamer on her starboard side.
The steatner proceeded on her fay, but one of the for-ign passengers ficers to dsplyy the ship's ality of the three miles when the passenger who was watching through his glasses, stated that the battleship was again preparing to fire. This time the huge shot came much closer and fell about one hundred yards from the steamer. The second shot caused much consternation among the passengers, who
his rs. This the Captain did by beseeched the captain to hoare-to and show hoisting a large Japanese tls on the mam topmast. This flag was seen by the warships, which then disappeared from the scene, and the Japanese steamer resumed her journey to this port,—'* Nagasaki Press,
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