THE CHINO-JAPANESE WAR, 1894— 95-544 not allowed,' and followed that by,'Senda boat.' The signal to quit the ship was still flying when another signal washoisted from the man-of-war, 'Lifeboat cannot come.' The Naniwa then steamed into position immediately abeam of us and whistled with her syren while doing so.

She then,stillkeeping the two previous signals flying, ran up a red flag to her foremast-head, and almostimmediately afterwardsdischarged a torpedo at us. We watched this coming, and it stopped or turned short of the ship. The not far from him another European. Just after this, and when about seventy or eighty yards from the ship,Ifound that rifle bullets were striking the water all around me;Iturnedand saw the Chinese soldiers shooting at me from the deck and gangway ports. Ithen protected my head with the life-belt,and swam and drifted with the tide past the ship. After getting clear of the ship Iagain made for the island, but seeing many Chinese ahead of me, Ireflected that it would be just as dangerous gettingonto Naniwa, being a quarter of a mile away, and seeing this, the whole starboard broadside of five guns was discharged, and tlae machineguns on the tops were used. This broadside took her (the Kowshing) somewhere amidships, and she listedover to starboard.

the island with them as it had been onboard, so Iagain turned, and taking off all my clothes made for the Naniwa, which had m>W drifted considerably away from the ship, and was not using her guns. Iwasnot swimming longwhen Isaw her lowering two of her boats, and one coming towards meIwaspicked up.Iexplained to the officer tlae direction in whichIhad last seen the captain and the major swimming, and he directed the other boat topull that way. N*° attempt was made to rescue the drowningChinamen. Two volleys were fired from our boat with the object of sinking two of the lifeboats,which, having got clear e>t the ship, were filled with Chinese."

"Ithen left the bridge, and getting hold of a spare life-belt jumped overboardfrom forward, coming up foul of the chain, down which numbers of the crew were swarming. Igot clear, and struck out for the island. Just then a loud explosion, as of a shell bursting, occurred on board, and the air was full of falling cinders and other debris. Isaw the captain ahead of me with his face all black, and further Isaw-Major von Hanneken swimming strong, and Besides the first officer the boats of the