Mr. Davies says that the loca! estimate of those killed on the Chinese side was about 1,000, of whom perhaps 160 were ci ians, the rest being soldiers.
But he' entirely derides the earlier exaggerated of Wanhsiew being reduced of ruins. On the contrary, Ihe says that very little damage was [done to the town and that, in fact, anybody going up by the river the day afterwards would have noticed nothing unusual. In support of this, Mr. Davies says that he had the' evidence of American friends with whom he took shelter during} Ithe first two days after the action fin which he had to remain in Wa Ihsien, of the Commander of the [Japanese gunboat, then at Wanhsien, jon which he stayed for two da: jand of the Japanese Deputy Commissioner of Customs.
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