甲午战争时期中国电报局的作用

Reviewing the Function of Chinese Telegraph Office in the Time of Sino-Japanese War of 1894

电报局是洋务运动中的重要企业,它的创办对近代社会的发展有重要作用。甲午战争时期,从朝鲜战场到国内战场,中国电报局承担了大量不可或缺的事务,尤其是电报局通过架设随军电报直接参与战斗,为清军提供了诸多有利条件。当然,电报局的作用发挥也受到当时时代社会条件的限制,如清廷财力的匮乏,使得战时电报局的建设颇受影响。此外,战事的不利也使电报局遭受人、财、物三方面的重大损失。

As a modern enterprise, founded in the time of Chinese Modernization Movement, the Chinese telegraph office had played an important role in the social development. At the beginning of building the telegraph office, it is obviously in order to meet the military affairs＇ requirement firstly, but in the academia＇ few scholars focus on the function of the telegraph office in the war. In fact, the telegraph office has done much indispensable business from the Korea battlefield to the domestic battlefield in the time of Sino-Japanese War of 1894, especially when it directly entered into the battle by building the affiliated military tele- graph offices, offering lots of benefit for the Qing＇s armies. This article discusses the effect of the telegraph office in the time of China-Japan War of 1894 roundly by reconsidering the relation between the both sides.