Tokyo, Mar. 15, Iv is learned from the Navy Office that Rear-Admniral Nagano, the com= mander of Japan' Squadron, proceeded from Shanghai to Taku on the cruiser Tone.
The destroyer Fuji has proceed-to Tiemsin, leaving one destroy er anchored at Tangku and two ethers off Taku, including the Hagi, which rejoined the flotilla after conveying the wounded to Port Arthur, Admiral Nagano holds an me dependent position, the Navy Office does not know his intentions, though possibly he may order the cruiser Hirado from Port Arthue to join Discussing the retirement of the destroyers when they were fired
the Navy Office stated that the venson they retired is not known, but it is presumed that the commander feared 2 Chinese at Japanese agitation would be foster-the destroyers shelled the Chinese positions, which would probably have been necessary, if they had continued on their course towards Tientsin, Tokyo Press Strangely Silent The vernacular press is strangely silent with regard to the Taka incident, though the Foreign Office denies that any instructions have been given to the papers and considers that the silence is due to the changed attitude of the Japanese people towards China—Reuter's Pacific Service.
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