Tientsin, Mar. 15.
In connexion with the bombard ment by Chinese troops at Tangku of the two Japanese destroyers, Fuji and Suzuki, the following re-nord has been telegraphed by the Captains of the destroyers in question to Admiral Nagano, Commander-in. Chief of the Japanese squadron in Chinese waters:—
"The Chinese troops opened iro} upon the Japanese destroyers at 3 p.m, and it was one minute} afterwards that the destroyers returned the fire. The exchange of shots lasted ten "minutes. Tu returning the fire, 85 machine-gun shots were fired by the Fuji and 120 shots by the Suzuki. The stant the Chinese troops stopped lombardment, the Japanese destroy: ripon the Jo skirmishers stationed. at a. short distance from the Tangku Fort. Apart from the wounding of four sificers and men, little or Gamage was inflicted upon the hulls the destroyers."—Eastern. News Agency.
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