Show r CLM Y W ARROR I ARE THE CHINE E I I I Few i Any Show the Slightest Skill With Their I Weapons INHUMAN BARBARITY INIUMAN MARKS THEIR COURSE EUROPEANS OFFER All TO THE COPPERCOLORED HEATHENS Chinese Follow the Example of American Sluggers Claiming the Battle of the Ynlu Was n Draw Chinese Ofllcei Charged With Cowardice and Ordered Beheaded One Small Example of the Cupidity Cu-pidity of the Celestials Vancouver B C Sept 2iThe Empress Em-press of India brings the following news Ifron Japan Count Yanagiawara Sakimitsu Count I Noble of Kyoto privy councilor who has been suffering from Illness for some years died recently The deceased nobleman no-bleman rendered distinguished service at the time of the restoration of the i emperor who sent him to China to negotiate ne-gotiate a treaty He was also minister t St Petersburg for several years On returning home he was appointed sena tor president of the board of decorations decora-tions and t other important offices He was only 44 years of age at the time of his death On the 24th ultimo the temperature ait Shanghai was 101G in the shade the highest on record Many died from the heat Notification has been issued from Peking forbidding the Importation of Japanese goods In consequence prices have been abnormally Increased The Italian cruiser Piedmonts is now e route from Italy to Corea She Is one of the most powerful in tho navy Clumsy Chinese An eyewitness of the battles of Salk wan and Asa states that the Chinese are not skillful in shooting their bullets bul-lets being directed not higher than three feet from the ground They used smokeless powder and most of them l were armed with sevenshotted repeating repeat-ing rifles They seemed however t I be unaccustomed to the use of the repeating re-peating rifle as when ordered to fire they discharged all seven shots In rapid rap-id succession During the firing of these volleys the Japanese officers ordered their men to He down on the ground and then to rise and rush on the enemy in the intervals in-tervals vhlle they were loading their rifles These ctc wer successful I Eight Japanese cooks who were employed em-ployed on a French cruiser and who I landed recently at Chee Foo were instantly in-stantly seized by Chinese soldiers and I killed The rumor that the Chinese have purchased the Chilean navy Is again revived In Yokohama This time it is stated the purchase Includes two new cruisers built by Armstrong and they are expected shortly A naJUve Japanese paper says that the British government has ordered Admiral Freemantle to watolt closely the movements of the Japanese fleet during the war and that In pursuance of that instruction some British warships war-ships always follow the Japanese fleet and bring tidings once or twice a day The Japanese press condemns this action ac-tion claiming that Great Britain Is I I I showing partiality to China I I A Japanese disguised as a Chinaman has been found in the house of the I I nephew of the vIceroy and commander I of the arsenal at Port Arthur The I man was immediately arrested and Is I i I considered an Important capture as > the Chinese think now they have found I 1 how the Japanese possessed such accurate accu-rate knowledge of their plans Jlnrbnritj the Rule Inhuman barbarity marks the course of the Chinese army The Chinese Ta iotati of Formosa who offered a prize 1 for Japanese heads is not a solitary instance of savage depravity Coreans have been impaled and three Japanese heads transfixed on spears are reported t grace the walls of Plyong Yang and the hands of five of their foes were nailed to gates of Whang Juby Chinese Chi-nese i The North China Daily News also I I says that Chinese soldiers at several i camps have been threatening the missionaries mis-sionaries with insult and trouble may i ensue shortly The imperial generosity of the Chinese emperor was characteristically character-istically displayed last month I was deemed politic to reward theextraordln jary I valor of General Yeh and his army i who it is stated slew no less than 5000 i Japanese from July 25th to the end of J I August The general received accordingly accord-ingly gifts consisting of a gem peacock feather holder a small knife a pair of j large purses and a couple of cinder I boxes The common soldiery were by no means overlooked for another ImperIal Impe-rIal i edict dated August 29 states that her majesty the empress dowager be lag most solicitous about the health of the armies now stationed at Ping Yang which have to endure heat and various other hardships In fighting battles desires de-sires that forty chests of preventive pills be handed to Li HUng Chang who will forward with the greatest dispatch to General Yeh for distribution among the armies European Ail I A number of Europeans in the customs Cus-toms service have left Canton and comedown come-down to Hong Kong In order to serve the Imperial government In the war against Japan Several of these have had torpedo and gunnery practice In the British navy and are probably Intended In-tended for similar work in the Chinese fleet Theses men are promised 150 taels a month during the war and after the war to be reinstated In tao customs t service If alive I killed their next of kin will receive three years full pay and 5400 taels as compensation guaranteed by the ins ectrgel ral This Is ridiculously rid-iculously cheap The Japanese have stringent orders to spot and snoot every one of them |