Jizhou

— Subsequently, however, the Russians did proceed beyond Shanhaikwan and captured the towns of Chichou and Hsin Min. I also heard, after my arrival at Lü Shun (Port Arthur) that the Russians had dispatched forces in various directions eastwards, and had sent communications to the local officials bidding them not to be alarmed, as all they had to do was to hand over their munitions of war to the Russians, whereupon the latter would exterminate the Hu* rebels on their behalf.

— The Yellow Sea, east of the Bohai Strait, extends from the mouth of the Yalü River in the north to a line running from the north bank of Changjiang estuary to Korea’s Jizhou Island in the south. The flat seabed provides ideal conditions for trawling.