Show ga written wrin f for this thi paper KOREAN REBELLION gated by frank G carpenter 1690 TSIN north china june 20 HE kingdom of korea VA is in the A ij throes of a 7 r eb e b el e I 1 lion ion I 1 and the chinese are s e n d di i n g troops b y ara 71 the thousand to the aid of the king eight gun AW boats have already left the korean shores and it is is said there are sixteen men of war in in the ekr of the russians be english are sending their ships koitek Ko itea and the flagship of our asiatic squadron the baltimore has already admiral is in corn com and the american colony in the city of seoul is bombarded oe taken to the sea coast and put KB tins this ship for protection it is bato I 1 0 conceive the condition of korea lower a d dwer classes are little less khz than slavic they have been oppressed for laiwa the nobles and the exactions of eminent officials during the last n have been so great that many natives are starving an prevails throughout ole jle peninsula but the revolution j at its worse at the south here jisc rebels have taken up against the government they massacred sacred many of the officials aney iffy hive have twice defeated the sold of f mhd he king their numbers have ased until it is said that they have about t followers and many fese are armed with guns which havie have captured from the royal is they have match lock and the most of them have swords I 1 sp spears em they have a thorough or lunation luza tion and there are roo men them who have served as scouts i first battle which occurred about i ika reeks ago the government troops mare victorious but at the next a few tuft later the rebels conquered and wa ki kings we soldiers were lett left dead on the advices advises we get here are T to the effect that the officers of the rebels are able and brave they led the government troops into ambuscades ambus cades and have outgeneraled them in nearly every instance the rebels are favored by the people and the government soldiers find it hard to get anything to eat li hung chang has sent a number of soldiers to the assistance of the king but there has as yet been no battle between the chinese and korean troops in the capital of korea two thirds of the people are said to be friendly to the rebels who are marching toward seoul and it will be only the foreign troops which will prevent their taking the capital one of the chief cries of the rebellion is against the foreigners I 1 have before me a manifesto which has just been issued by them it states that the foreigners must be expelled from the country and that the old religion must be upheld it advocates the destruction of the officials cals and is of the most inflammatory nature there is no doubt but bul that such of the missionaries ies as are outside seoul are by no means safe dr W J hall was attacked by a mob in the city of pen yang the other day and it is said that the governor of the city headed the ma mob b so far no foreigners have been killed but the colony at the capital numbering about one hundred foreigners is in great danger and only the presence of the foreign gunboats gun boats makes them safe in the meantime the troops which china is pouring into korea may possibly get into trouble with the japanese japanese the two nations hate each other worse that do the germans and the french each nation is afraid of the other and each is apparently preparing for war the advice received here state that the chinese have sixteen transports of troops to korea and sixty five hundred soldiers have already been landed on the korean soil there are about eight thousand japanese people living in korea there are colonies at all ports and at each of these ports a japanese gunboat will be probably stationed the japanese have one of the best navies in the east they are a nation of fighters and they are sailing about korea with chips on their shoulders if the chinese happen to run against them and dislodge the chips there will be a battle in no time and a war between the two countries may spring up which will possibly involve russia and england and event bally bring on a great european war it is impossible at this writing to state what is go going ing to happen these countries of the far ar east are different today thau they have been in the past li hung chang has an army ot cit men equi equipped ped e with the latest improved rifles an and ath the e chinese navy will rank well up with the of europe japan is is making modern guns equal to those which are turned out at the washington navy yard the troops have been drilled by german officers for years they are armed with rifles as good as any you will find in the world made after a pattern invented by a japanese and they have something like trained soldiers they have navy yards and men of war equal to ours and they are as brave as any people on the face of the globe As to the bravery of the chinese this is a disputed question ane foreigners here they have in the past been routed by western troops but where ever they had good western leaders they have shown themselves efficient and courageous today they are in good condition for a great war and the stories of the events of the next year ma may make some of the bloodiest pages of history Ki history story I 1 wrote from shanghai of my visit to the great chinese arsenal at Kian gnan and I 1 described its hundred acres of of foundries factories and powder works since then I 1 have traveled thousands of miles through dif different lerent parts of this great empire and I 1 find everywhere evidences of the wonderful preparation which these almond eyed celestials celesti als are making to fight the barbarians as they call us at miles from the sea coast I 1 visited a naval schools presided over by english officers and saw the cadets cabets go through their maneuvers at the city of han yang I 1 inspected a gun factory where they were making small arms and at I 1 saw vast powder works and the smoke stacks of an arsenal covering many acres here at tien tsin li hun chung chang has between fifty and one hundred acres of buildings in which the finest of modem guns are being made he has schools for the education of officers for his army and navy and nearly every one of the great viceroys vice roys of the empire has his own military establishment there is a big navy yard at foo chow below shanghai where the chinese are making torpedo boats and modern vessels of war this is on the min river and they have been building boats here for ten years of all sorts and sizes I 1 have seen some of the cruisers turned out of these yards and they are equal to the same class of boats you will find in europe and america they make also armor plate and big guns and though they are now importing imp their steel in the shape of ingots ingols they are putting in such machinery as will enable then to make their own steel with their etva own birou wid and they expect to place themselves on an en independent basis here at tien tsin is the best place to make a study of the chinese navy li hung chang the famous viceroy is is its head and lo 10 feng luh his naval secretary has his headquarters here mr lo 10 feng luh is one of the most accomplished men in china he speaks english and german as well as he does chinese and he is as well posted on the doctrines of H huxley and darwin as he is in the phi philosophy I 1 os 0 h of confucius and cencius Men cius H he e knows n all about the great navies of the world and he adopts everything new in naval warfare as soon as it is invented I 1 am under many obligations ligat ions to him for favors during my stay at tien tsin and some of the best of my information comes from his headquarters the chief fleet in the navy is the north coast squadron which is directly under him and which is per haps as fine a squadron as you will find outside of the greatest english forces it consists of four barbette seagoing armor one of which is tons in size and two others of which are more than tons each it has a number of deck protected cruisers a torpedo flotilla and eleven gunboats gun boats the foo chow squadron has a number of fine boats and in addition to these are the Shani shanghai hai flotilla and the canton flotilla these are under the viceroy at canton C and the foo chow squadron is I 1 think under the viceroy of two of li hung chan chanas s armor cla s have a speed of fifteen bots knots an hour and they are armed with four twelve inch krupp guns these guns are hotchkiss Hoich kiss cannon and tubes for whitehead torpedoes and they are of the best workmanship the germans can turn out I 1 cant describe the excellence of the guns which the chinese are niki making n themselves the guns and ships which wh i cf they are importing are of the best they have in short everything that is known to modern warfare and I 1 see everywhere their ships manned with rapid firing guns hotchkiss guns gatling guns and the giant monsters known as six eight ten and twelve inch guns the japanese have almost equally good fighting mate material and a war between the two nations will result in an enormous destruction of life and property one thing which strikes me in the gre great at gun works of china which I 1 visited ite d is th the fact that they make everything thi ng without regard to patent rights or patent tent law there is nothing of this kind ind in china and they seems to have no scruples against adopting any invention they can put their hands bands on they can copy anything from a collar button to a 50 ton gun an an american inventor who looks to china as a future field will be disappointed I 1 know of an american who has been trying to introduce grays here the ordinary chinese alphabet contains about characters and as it is is now telegrams have to be sent in the shape of numbers and translated back ii to chinese by this invention the characters themselves could be sent and it would be of immense value to china the viceroy to whom the man applied said he would probably introduce the invention but he would first like to have one of the machines sent on trial the american refused to sell less than worth of the machines and the venture dropped through had he sent a single instrument it would probably have been copied by the mechanics of the viceroy and china would have made her own autographs tel I 1 heard of similar instances at and the chinaman who told me laughed as he described how easily an american had been taken in the man represented the maxim rapid firing gun and he wanted to get an order from the viceroy he came to and was received right royally he had bad several of his guns with him and as he exhibited them the botton hole eyelids of the chinese officials widened and their black pupils grew big at its destructive properties per ties they began to figure with him on prices and led fed him to believe that they were going to buy the guns they treated him well and when he was invited out to dinner night alter after night he thought his contract was assured and his visions were those of monte cristo all at once the civilities ceased and he was told that the viceroy had concluded after all that he did not want the gun before he left it leaked out that during the nights he had been out eating birds nest soup and shark fins and listening to the dulcet screeches of the singsong girls the agents of the viceroy had haa picked the locks of his gun cases and had taken accurate measurements and models of the machinery of the guns the only reason why they are not making these guns today is is because they have other guns they consider better they have the drawings and they can reproduce them at any time in the gun works at kian gnan I 1 saw all kinds of modern rifles from the winchester to the enfield and I 1 was told that the best of the lot had been chosen and that they were now making them for the troops I 1 handled some which had just been finished and to my in inexperienced eyes they looked as well as any I 1 have seen elsewhere speaking of the wonderful power ol of the chinese to copy any piece of machinery which is placed before them a curious incident occurred in connection with the electric light plant in the palace of the emperor the foreign manager of this plant became sick and add went off for his health for a few weeks when he returned he found a second plant running the chinese had copied the original machinery and for tear fear that they might make a mistake they had reproduced it even to the color and amount of the paint put on the diff different erent parts during my stay at the Kian gnan arsenal I 1 visited one of the chinese gun boats which was made at foo chow my photographer was with me and he took pictures of the boat and some of the officials the sailors did not relish being photographed but the commands of I 1 the he captain made them pose as we wished mr cornish the foreign adviser of the arsenal was with me and our chinese cards were sent into the captain A moment later a round faced Chinaman standing at least six feet two and weighing two hundred pounds appeared on deck cleck he bent over and shook his own hands at me in chinese fashion and then asked mr cornish and myself to step down into his cabin this was a large room built much like the salons of one of our big boats it was furnished with a number of two foot tables which stood against the walls of the room between heavy armed teak wood chairs so that as we sat do each of us had a table beside him u which later on tea and champagne served she tea was given us in nese cups with saucers on their so tilted into them as to keep the leaves out of our mouths the c cb was served in little glasst glasses size size of an egg cup and the cap alp smacked his lips as the amber 1 audibly gurgled down his throat the center of the room as we ent one of the officers of the ship was si sit on a stool with a copper basin in fi of him and a barber behind him barber was VOW shaving his head and b bring his queue and the officer did seem to regard our presence in least he rose and shook his 0 g hands at us then bowed half a dozes times and then had his man go on with the shaving there was in facts fact unconventionality about the whole that was refreshing A big mana naana was expected and the marines dressing themselves on board man pulled on his trousers as w we out of the captains cabin on to deck and another hurriedly got hi hii into his coat the marines wore dark blue shirts sacks and blue pantaloons of wi wa cotton which were tucked into black cloth boots the shirts bordered with wide bands of red were embroidered on the breast t chinese characters I 1 had one of marines on deck photographed and andl noted that his gun was a muzzle I 1 loaff though he was standing beside a armstrong cannon at the time I 1 a wards got a picture of a whole with their turned up straw hats their licht light bl blue ue clothes as the posed their p photograph oto 9 raph on one of the bi bit ships of th the e chinese navy and 3 struck with the nerve shown in faces and the agility with which moved about at their work I 1 chatted with the calvain captain som dometu about his boat and I 1 found that understood its organization and e eai eqi ment he was anxious to have a c six inch gun and he told mr co cort so he spoke pigeon Engli shand w wl mr cornish asked hint him if he did want to try the gun before he toole took out to sea he replied emphatic emphatically all y yes must havey aly st spose pose wit byj way spose gun no good must ha t aly my take gun out we gosh go sho S spose p 0 s e alle lighted we takee but x ha have v e a ti aly th this is C chinese captain however 1 I told knows more about his ship many 0 of the other officials do man manda annes rines as a rule are politic rather than business men and some those who are in charge 0 of the ars arseo know nothing whatever of me mechail A few days ago a twelve inch gun A tested and the leading officials of sh hai went out to see it these 1 manda rines discretely retired to a p ion |