| Show THE TELE PAR FAB EAST CHINESE kidnapping NArrING KID CHOLERA STEAMER WRECKED LOSS of LIFE ETC november 15 the steamer oceanic arrived at san ban francisco bringing hong kong dates to october and yokohama advices advises to october as follows CHINA the young emperor of china will assume power on the day of the first moon of next year A soldier named lelland leiland louis of the foreign legion was executed at hanoi on september for desertion a ad being the head of a conspiracy to desert A missionary writes from the province of cunnan that the chinese authorities ties have stopped all trade with burmah I 1 and are sending officers and arms to the frontier A number of high chinese officials condemned to death for not having done their best to their country during the franco canese war have been sent to the capital again for imperial examination before being decapitated thomas stevens who is making a tour of the world on the bicycle is in hong kong he intends proceeding to canton and maki making ug his way fr from am thence overland to Kiu kiang across the che lang pass doing as much of his journey as practicable on his bicycle the daily Dally press Fress says chinese roads fre F re not specially adapted for foi bicycle riding but bat trusts the plucky traveler may find fina some stretches of country where his bicycle will have a chance and heartily wishes him well through the dis comforts of his trip on reaching shanghai mr stevens proposes to cross to nagasaki and mounting his bicycle to go agh the pleasant and hospitable land of the rising sun the canton correspondent of the china matl mail mentions an instance wherein where inthe the roman catholic bishop there prevented an outbreak by the timely exercise of tact and discretion unfortunately this is not the invariable history or of such troubles and it must be admitted that after all allowances are made for the unreasoning ignorance of a chinese mob fuel is often added to the fire by indiscreet actions on the part of the missionaries this however can be fairly said to apply only to mobs gathered at the moment and not to those predetermined attacks upon the christians which have done so much to discredit the chinese officials gentry and populace the german bark harmonia Ham monia was wrecked in chefko harbor on the night of october it appears that tile the vessel was anchored in about four foar fathoms fathom sand and during the night when the weather was very severe huge waves rolling in from seaward she dragged her anchors while the vessel was in in the hollow of the waves she struck the bottom and commenced to leak and the next morning she heeled over to starboard and settled down finally heeling over so much that at I 1 p m the ends of her yards were la in the elie water her hatches had previous to this burst so that a quantity of her cargo of coals dr dropped out into the water A chinese gunboat rendered some assistance in taking away things from the wreck all the crew got away f from rom the vessel the china mail says the chinese authorities are growing exceedingly bold no doubt the recent recognition by the british government or of their very shadowy claim to suzerainty over burmah has acted as a stimulus in in this direction another flagrant and open violation of treaty obliga obligations obligation tio no and the rhe rights of the colony of hongtong Hong kong has been recently committed bv them their previous acton act of this nature maiure was the audacious seizure not long since of the alleged pirate chang chi in hongtong Hong kong by chinese seamen from a gunboat belonging to the he squadron for th this ot outrage only a halfhearted half halt hearted sort of an apology was made by the governor of fok len ien the latest outrage has been the seizure by a stratagem of a reputed leader of the triad society named pung fang afung a medical practitioner living at a place called to kwo wan in british kowloon close to the chinese border A reward re ward of by the chinese authorities was it appears out for this man and knowing this and that they were extremely anxious to secure his person he was very careful f ul not to give them a chance of seizing ali him by crossing the boundary line with true celestial cunning however the chinese authorities formed a plan tor for his capture which they successfully carried out on october he was arrested while on a terry boat by some of a mandarin and at once put in confinement JAPAN improvements are proposed in the city of tokio which will require an outlay of yen according to the native press it Is probable that english will soon be adopted at as the second national language the use of chinese has been altogether abandoned and among all the foreign ton tongues aes ues the preference is given to engrish english after a series of experiments the government has resolved to adopt the krupp type of guns and a larse large number are to be made an arrangement has been made with krupp co to establish a branch factory at or some other part of kiyoto for making au all the heavy guns required A public meeting held at the isumu asakura Asa Asp kusa tokio on the of october by buddhist priests for the purpose of discussing the best methods of reforming religion was suspended and the audience dispersed Is persed by the police the assembly being considered as violating the public meeting regulations the steamship noi manton which left kobe on oct with a cargo of tea and cocoons for new york and canada foundered off koshima Oo Ou shima the exact date of the catastrophe is not given she struck a rock and sank in deep water carrying down 60 of her crew and passengers twenty six were saved the cholera returns show a steady decrease in the number of cases and the disease may in fact be said to have almost disappeared all the infected localities showed just previous to the sailing of the oceanic a total of only cases in a day with deaths tue toe hospitals have been closed and toe the epidemic is virtually at an end ena it has been previously noted that the government is about to adopt some measures to eu encourage courage fine arts it is now low stated that regulations will be enacted to protect and encourage arts and an office will be established for the purpose under the patronage of the imperial household departments which will f furnish the necessary f funds the japan gazette says A shock ing occurrence took place on the morning of october A tirl girl 10 years oi of age named batsu res residing ding at onoe eho me went to a vacant piece of ground near I 1 he railway stati station oo gather reeds she carried her b bhaer er who is a year old on her back backow WU was ac accompanied compan led by another little girl firl while there jave five wild dogs who had been hiding in the long grass attacked the children hatsu having her little brother to carry was unable to runaway run away I 1 and both were killed by the ferocious beasts there have been several similar occurrences in ia the same locality the eighth conference of the high commissioners for the revision of the treaties was held at the foreign department part ment on october when all the foreign commissioners were present without exception briefly summarized the results so far reached are as follows mixed jesi residence dence will be permitted throughout japan within a certain date atter after the ratification of the treaties foreigners may freely travel and reside in the interior subject to japanese jurisdiction but the law of the country will be administered by courts composed of japanese and foreign judges the foreigners to be employed by the government and to administer na japanese law only on tha other hand for a few years after ratification will prevail within the present treaty limits beyond these only japanese laws will be administered within a stated period after ratification the japanese Govern government men t aul wul in all probability prepare and promulgate civil and commercial codes etc which will therefore be in force and practically tried several months before the me establishment of mixed residence and the opening of the country COREA the chinese resident yen still continues to gain notoriety at seoul by his barange actions his last freak was to build a wall sixty feet by forty feet in front of ef his residence in the heart of the city and he has now had painted upon n it inmost in most of the colors of the rl rainbow bo a species of antediluvian animal with wah its mouth open about to swallow the sun on one side and on the other side a representation of the setting sun the former probably meant to represent china and the latter japan the correspondent of der lloyd hongtong Hong kons kong says the discontent with the behavior 7 of mr denny in corea borea is in increasing masing in chinese circles both here andin and in peking it is said that li hung chang has sent back mr denny who has i a three yeara contract to cores corea to lo ilive him an opportunity to make greier greater mistakes than he be nas yet cornin comin so that a pretext may be got to the breaking off at once of t the contract the position in corea ha lias a been repeatedly offered to herr von Mol lendorff by the viceroy Vi cerBy but refuses to assume the mere role of councillor without also having the control of the customs the north china daily news says we bear that it Is believed in that mr denny has succeeded in making arrangements that will render his bis position in seoul more satisfactory to him than it has hitherto been lt li hung ung chang an 9 found foun himself aimse f obliged to give way a so somewhat m and to avoid compliance ilau e with it h M mr r dendys demands he eude endeavored avore d to get herr von mollen dorff to re resume S u in e his bis former position in corea but this offer was refused it would have been accepted had the control ot the corean customs been coupled with the post of adviser to the king of corea but fortunately as most people will think the corean customs is not ll li hun hung chanas to give away we can only hope fope that mr denny has 8 succeeded u in m making his position one in which he can effect real good tor for corea and it will require great tact and firmness on his part to nil all a post that to the public has somewhat invidious features possibly affairs at seoul may run more smoothly with a less rash and officious chinese resident than mr yuen but the position and weakness of the corean government will always make the court and country liable to be the scene of intrigues oil on the part of china japan and russia after what has been going on in seoul and the rumors or of the covetous eye which russia has been rumored to be casting on a harbor on the coast no ofie one can be surprised to hear that the united states is is said to be paying more attention to affairs in corea and th that at it is probable they would have something serious to say against the establishment by a european power of a large place of arms on the coast probably the best thing that could happen for the coreana would be their protection formally or informally by the united states a power that has no ambition to serve out here and that would act in the interests of peace and fair play to the country this last is the last thing which would occur to any of the otner other aspirants to influence in corea 11 |
