THE CHINESE LOSSES. 625 Standard. The "foreign instructors," mostly British seamen, had taken no small sharein the defence. There were, in all, about a dozen of them. And there is no doubt their presence wasof the utmost value to the Chinese admiral. What theydidat Wei-hai-wei was a repetition of whatGordon and his officers had done years before in China, and a good earnest of what may be done by the Chinese battalion commanded by British officers that has since been raised in this same navalstation of Wei-hai-wei.

What were the Chinese losses in these days and lights of battle among the ice and snow will never be known. They must have lost fully as many by illness resulting from exposure as from the fire of the besiegers. Even the Japanese, who were better equipped in every way,lost large numbers by sickness during the siege, and had manymendisabled and crippled by frost-bites. In the actual fighting the Japaneselosses werenot heavy. The army had 74 killed,and 214 wounded; the navy 27killed, and 34 wounded— 34Q casualties to all. Of the captured prizes, the wrecked Ting-Yaen could not be saved. After the war what remained of her was sold for a small sum to a Chinese speculator, who broke up the wreck with gun-cotton charges,andcarried off the old iron. The consort, the Chen-Yuen, was found to be leakingbadlyfrom having comein contact witharock, and she was sent toPort Arthur to be docked and repaired before being taken to Japan. She has since been fitted with a secondary batteryof quick-firers, andnow figures in the Japanesenavylist as thebattleship Chin-Yen. The belted cruiser Ping-Yuen,another of the prizes, has been renamed the Hci-Yen,and is now classed as a Japanese coast defence ship.

The Tsi- Yuen, renamed the Sai-Yen, also appears in the list as a protected cruiser. Six gunboats were also transferred to the Japanese navy, and six of theChinese torpedo boats were got off the rocks, repaired, and added to the Japanese torpedoflotilla.

No attempt was made to effect any further conquests in Shan-tung. The object of the expedition had been accomplished when the Chinese warships were captured or destroyed. The Japanese partially demol.shed the land forts with explosives, and dismounted all their guns, taking away some of the best of them. They left a garrison only in the forts of Liukung-tao. The rest of the victorious army was transferred to Port Arthur and Ta-lien-wan, whereIto and Oyama began to prepare for the invasion of Pe-chi-liand the march on Pekin.

THE JAPANESE PROTECTED CRUISER " NAN1WA KAN dO