Excerpt from Note on the Wounded in Naval Battles Between Japan and China During 1894-5, With Some Considerations on Sanitary Conditions During the War: Read Before the 12th International Medical Congress Held at Moscow in 1897The attack upon the forts on the Pescadores occurred on March 23rd, 1895, the Japanese combined Squadrons composed of the Matsushima, Itsukushima, Hashidate, Naniwa, Takachiho, and Akitsushima leading the transports carrying a Mixed Detachment, subjected the Kon-peh-tai fort to a fierce bombardment. The Chinese garrison reply ing to this with volleys from their heavy guns, the engage ment continued for five hours. But no shell struck our war-ships and the guns on the Fort were silenced after having been nearly destroyed. During this engagement the Mixed Detachment landed on li-sei-kaku and marched to the in terior. At dawn the next morning, each war-ship ordered a landing party to advance as a reinforcement to the army. On March 25th, the whole of the Islands surrendered to the Japanese. During the course of the fighting, only one person on the Naniwa was wounded receiving a fracture of the lower jaw and a lacerated wound of the neck from the deliberate aim of the enemy. He was immediately treated by a surgeon belonging to the landing party and afterwards sent back to the naval hospital of the Port Admiralty at home, where he quite recovered a deformity of the lower jaw being left.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.