. A diplomat in Japan; the inner history of the criticial years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored. mile I THE STRAITS OF stockaded_t)Arracks. SHIMONOSEKI 108 NAVAL OPERATIONS tired from the * Euryalus was at 4800 yards, and it wentplump into a battery. By the principal batteries had been silenced, and asignal was made to discontinue firing. A fire now burst outamong the buildings in the Maeda mura batteries and a maga-zine exploded, making the third * blow-up during theafternoon. We continued firing a shot now and then up tosix oclock. The quar
. A diplomat in Japan; the inner history of the criticial years in the evolution of Japan when the ports were opened and the monarchy restored. mile I THE STRAITS OF stockaded_t)Arracks. SHIMONOSEKI 108 NAVAL OPERATIONS tired from the * Euryalus was at 4800 yards, and it wentplump into a battery. By the principal batteries had been silenced, and asignal was made to discontinue firing. A fire now burst outamong the buildings in the Maeda mura batteries and a maga-zine exploded, making the third * blow-up during theafternoon. We continued firing a shot now and then up tosix oclock. The quarter-deck 40-pounder Armstrongs werefired once only, as their range proved to be too short, andnone of the smooth-bore guns on the main deck were broughtinto action, to the great disappointment of the bluejackets,who had probably not forgotten the slaughter made amongsttheir comrades at Kagoshima, and burned to avenge it. Itmust be admitted that the Japanese fought well and withgreat persistence, for I attach no value to the story that wastold that the gunners were only allowed to fire once, and werethen replaced by fresh men. At first many of our shot fellshort, but when the rang
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