The following official war news received from the War Ministry of Japan has been communicated to us by H. I. J. M. Consul-General After driving away the one on a height south of Laoshan at daybreak of September 27, our troops advanced further until they occupied a line extending from the mouth of Litsunho to the neighbourhood of Chinchialing, northeast of Fushan, (about five miles north"ast of Lits'un) through the height to the south of Laoshan, and crowded the enemy into a line about five miles off the entrenchment outside of Tsingtao.
During this engagement, ax the hree war vessels hampered ity, cannonading at our right wing. bombs were thrown over them by our two aeroplanes. Thereupon the enemy's war vessels, thrown into confi them rashly with their machine guns and others. One of our machines sustained several gunshots while the other was hit by a score of rifle shots. No damage, however, was done either to our aviators or to the body of these machines,
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