THE FLIGHT OF THE CHINESE 559 another day.' So, Ibelieve,runs the oldadage. These are the tactics the Chinese have followed since the beginning of the campaign. It was so at Asan, where General Yeh stole out of the clutches of the Japanese with one thousand troops- These very men,after a splendid march throughtheroughest andmost inhospitable part of Korea, reached Ping-yang to meet the Japanese again, and, with the rest of the Pingyang garrison, succeeded in again carrying out the tactics they followedat Asan."

werewell treated. As trophies of the fight the Japanese had thirty-five Krupp guns, about 500 Mauser repeating rifles, and as many good modern breech-loaders, quantities of older weapons, flags, cartridges andmoney.

The collapse of the Chinese defence has been explained by two facts. In the first place the defences were on such an extensive scale that not one of them were fully manned. Instead of twelveor fourteen thousand men, the forts and linesof Ping-yang wouldhave needed thirty-five thousand. Again, the Chinese hadexpended all their energy on fortifications,and made little or no effort to clear the front of their works. Trees wereleft standingin the dense pine woodson the ridges that came close up to the works,and thus the Japanese as they marched on the place were screened almost entirely from view, and had a good dealof cover from fire.

On the Japanese side 633 men had fallen in the attack. Of these, 8 officers and 154 men were killed. Oshima's brigade suffered most severely. Fully three-fourths of the loss fell upon it, and the general himself was slightlywounded. The Chinese loss cannot be so accurately stated. It was certainly overa thousand, besides more than six hundred prisoners. The Japanese acknowledge that the Chinese fought bravely. They give especial praise to the Chinese general Tso. During the defence of the Peony Hill Fort he was badly wounded, but tearing off a strip of his long robe he bound up his wound and continued to encourage his men. Another bullet struck him down dead, and on this his men gave way. To his fall the Japanese attribute their easy capture of the fort. A few of the prisoners who tried to escape were beheaded, the rest On the day of the battle Marshal Yamagata was approaching with a new army of 10,000 men that had lately landed at Chemulpo. He took over the chief command on the morrow of the victory. But there was no more fighting in Korea. Ping-yang had clearedthe north of the peninsula of the Chinese. Yeh ralliedhis twicebeaten army only behind the Yalu River, the northern frontier of the country, where the Chinese were now gathering an army for the defence of Manchuria.

PLAN OF THE A HACK ON PING-YANei.