In October of the same year, in Taiwan which had come into the possession of Japan, an incident happened in which because a resisting Chinese fled into a British merchant ship 'Thales,' Arichi's subordinate cruiser 'Yaeyama' chased it and made an on-the-spot visitation of it.
同年10月、日本領となった台湾において、抵抗した中国人がイギリス商船「テールス号」に逃げたため、配下の「八重山(通報艦)」がこれを追跡して臨検を行うという事件が起きた。