H, lected for a headquarters, it Is the distributingīU '' centre and the chief market of this part of H f'r nemndlt.No better place could have been se. Whoever cimtrolsĤV Wl-Ju control the mountain passes and roads HBI ''outpost of the old kingdom of Llau-tong. It Is now on thuīiB ' very verge, of Corea. I 1 1 The city has been besieged, sacked, and con. V and flelifs, water courses and woodlands. Hfm upon a fertile rolling plain divided Into farms HI ' northeast, west, and southwest the city looks

II ', craled by treetops and running vines. Here and there are glimpsesīj V ' of rod roofs and jsircelaln copings, the top ofījy, Buddhist temples, and the upwr stories of ofījB flclal buildings. Ilefore the Invention of artilleryīj the plate was considered almost Impregnable.īj I, T,he walls are no high that but little can bu seen H to allow tho archers to shoot don u um Invad. Ji ,At Intervals are watch towers with windows,įrom which the sentry can spy out In every ill-īj j ' rectlon. ' posure havo blenched to it dead white, It Is surrounded by a long, high, andĮfrong wall of cut granite, wlilch ages of ex. Point Is vry wide and deep the tanks are mod.Įralfly high and slope upward with h gradualĪscent until they meet the hill on which standsġ the city. It occupies a site whose natural advantagesĬannot he surpassed. Wl-Ju Is a walled city of the llrsti lass. ' places In those two lands, mid especially tti thoĬelestial empire, lire monuments of tilth midĭisease. This means n great dent, beennso most of the , fcomestand cleanest In either Corrn or China. Town Just across tlm Vulu Itlver from the Chi. Road to thw Vulu ltlvrr, and there In little doubt The Japanese ami), fresh from their victory ' BoMrlhlnK About Wl-iil nail Mukden, To. and that Identical In.īJ I k atructlons will prolmbty bosent to tlulr rtspec. SMi'dcmlsa)īb f negotiations am In progress between Hcrmany,īl ji j' England, and Russia relative to the war bīaj y twrcn China and. H ' Hiclr splendid victories nt Ping-Yang and YaluīE i The Berlin correspondent of the. Hillf pcclal tetters to Nodru nml his army andĨl' Admiral lto and his fleet tliitnklnit Ihcm for HfiS' I Toklo telegraph, thnt llio Mikado has sent Hg j toward Wl-Ju, from which point they will pro-īfflf T1' rnrrctpomtcnt of the Central Ken- at Fine-Yang and eaptared that clly nre marching J'HBi(fr'?'sjT C''' jWliJIjfP'l iT,HIP(fPli JH '(r 'IJfJ fif li'Pffs''7V'apwW1W'p' WFtHfv:l,W 1 H

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