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 Title: “A Second Victory at Jilong” 基隆再捷 Year: 1884 Volume: 11 Page Number: 21 Caption Translation: Newspapers report that a telegram arrived on the sixteenth day of the seventh month from Xiamen, stating that two French warships moored in Jilong attacked the Chinese army stationed in the hills. Investigation revealed that one of the French warships was the ironclad Bayard, while the other one was a small warship. As the French knew that the battery built by the Chinese army on the hill behind the Customs house had targeted their ships, they especially fired cannons to bombard it, in the hope of silencing it. That night, some ships came to Shanghai from Taiwan. They reported that in the tenth and eleventh days of this month [August] the French again provoked battles in Jilong, with three warships in total. Struck by eleven Chinese cannons, each of the three French warships suffered damage and retreated from the port. In the attack eleven French soldiers died, while we had only one casualty. This was indeed a victory. From this it can be seen that the French are so covetous, crafty, and cruel that they nearly lack any human qualities. As Mencius put, “Benevolence will triumph over non-benevolence, just as water puts out fire.” The French are so ruthless that they will be definitely be wiped out. Translator: Alec Guojun Wang, revised by Peter C. Perdue |
Caption Text: 各報登七月十六日下午廈門來電， 云法尚有兵船兩艘泊在基隆， 與該處山上之華兵相攻。 查是處之法兵船， 一為巴夏爾鐵甲， 一為小號兵船。 緣華兵於海關後面山上建築炮台， 法知不利於其船， 故特然砲轟擊， 以冀阻遏不行等語。 是晚， 又有輪船從台灣來滬， 云本月初十、十一兩日， 法人又在基隆開仗， 船共三艘計。 受中國十一砲， 三船均遭傷損， 故即退出口外。 法兵被擊， 死者十餘名， 我軍僅亡一名， 此係的確捷音等語。 觀於此而知法人之貪詐凶殘， 幾無人理。 孟子曰， 仁之勝不仁也， 猶水勝火。 法矧為不仁之甚者哉， 亦終必亡而已矣。 （印：再接再厲）。 吳友如。 View on Yale Visual Resources |
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| illustrations from the 1898 edition of the Dianshizhai huabao, generously provided by the Sterling Memorial Library at Yale University Massachusetts Institute of Technology © 2015 Visualizing Cultures  |
| “A Second Victory at Jilong” 基隆再捷 1884 (page 21) [dz_v11_022] |