We have to thank the Consul-General for Japan for the following official telegrams received by him Tokio, 14th June.
(1) Admiral Togo's report received at the Imperial Headquarters on the 12th inst, is as follows The 6th Fleet as prearranged bombarded the enemy encamping on the coast extending to the neigh-Dourhood of Hsiureyuchéog from the Kaiping Promontory during the 7th and 8th and returned here this morning after having reconnoitred the Bay of Linotung. The fleet reports that the enemy stationed nearly 3,000 infantry and cavalry on the shore along the district of Kaiping in order to prevent the landing four army, and according to the natives distributed sentinels at several places along the coast, but they all fled tothe interior as the result of our bombardment, At the time of the bombardment of the 7th, the train marching southward, having stopped at the point three miles north of Hsiungyuchéng, immediately turned back northward. After this there was no train running; until the 8vb. On the morning the 8th the fleet bombarded heavily a group of the enemy, consisting of about two companies of infantry and one company of cavalry and gave enormous loss. According to a foreign captain coming from Yinkou on the '7th inst., as the result of this bombardment the Russian troops, 3,000 strong and 20 guns, having withdrawn from there fled northward. The two Russian soldiers who were captured on the 8th in the Fuchou Bay by the 10th torpedo-boat flotilla and having come from Wanhsialing, Chengtehsien, and tried to leave for Port Arthur, are cavalryman belonging to the 18th regiment of the 4th cavalry Brigade. According to them there are two regiments of infantry, one regiment of cavalry, and 8 guns at Wanhsialing, Wafangtien and Wafangkou.
'They arrived there in two parties between the 28th and 31st ultimo. The Commander is Major-General Samson and his forces are generally said to be 5,000 strong. According to' the prisoners, the train bound southward rans 3 to 4 times per day as far as Wanhsialing but sometimes to Wafangkou. The prisoners had mary official dispatches with them.
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