Morning journal and courier., 1891-09-14
FROM THE onIEnr.

| Interesting News from China-Oppo.
 sftion to Telegraph Lines-Exten. sion Of a Railroad-Discovery o1 Gold Mines-Seriou Landslide-The Recent Riots. SAN FRANCISCO, Sept 13.-Over twenty thousand people assembled at Lung Chow, | in the province of Human, recently to pre- vent workmen from putting up telegraph lines. Ten thousand poles were burned and the men driven over the boundary. A society has been formed to keep the tel egraph out and mob is still on the watch. Great apprehension is felt by the inhabi- tants of the border districts in Hupeh
 MT. Pethick, American consul at Tien Tsln, has been made assistant manager of the extension of the Tien Tsin railway Viceroy Chang Chi Tumg has recently opened the iron mines in Hupeh and claims he can manufacture all the iron needed on the road by next July. Ii Hung Chang accepted an offer for a part and has order ed two hundred and fifty thousand tons of foreign iron to use meanwhile.
 Gold mines have been discovered in the Ching Chen district of Kuang Tung. Ad- yenturers f1ocked to them in crowds and did much damage to graves and fields in digging. Finally the magistrate prohibited mining there and quiet was restored.
 There seems to be no foundation for the report that the son of Husch, minister to England, has been arrested as 8 member of secret society. Young Husch lives at Wusich, the scene of the recent riots, but is quiet student and was in no way con- nected with them. a
 There has been serious landslide in the bank of the Yang Tse opposite Chian kiang. The people, warned by premoni- tory tremblings fled in their night clothes. Hardly had they escaped when a large tract of ground slid into the river, carry ing about hundred houses and shops with it. No lives were lost.
 SAN FRANCISCO, Sept. 13.-The British steamer China arrived this morning from Hong Kong and Yokohoma. She brings John Wolsom, the British minister, has protested strongly against the dilatory manner in which the Chinese government dealt with the recent riots and has put three questions to the government asking first, why an edict on the subject of the riots was not dispatched throughout the empire by telegraph; second, why the Wu Hu magistrate who tried to stop the riots was degraded while his superiors, who did nothing, were punished; third, why the punishment of the guilty was delayed.
  ions to his excellency Ii Hung Chang to be answered. Chang replied first, it is not the custom of China to send edicts by wire; second, the magistrate was degraded for other reasons; third, the rioters had been punished, two being executed and the others otherwise punished.
 The North China News, commenting ed itorially on the answers, says, The first is merely subterfuge. The case was too serious to admit of the delay caused by the use of messengers. As for the second reply it was stated at the time that the magistrate was degraded as concession to the natives who had denounced him for doing his duty in the affair. The reply is palpable evasion and only shows that China cannot be depended on by the for eisn powers. As for the execution of two culprits this is unsatisfactory as coming far short of the requirements of Chinese law in cases of murder among themselves. Murders of foreigners must not be punish ed more lightly than murder of Chinese. Lord Salisbury added to his three questions demand that Human, which is the hot bed of the anti-foreign sentiment in China, be opened to trade, coupled with threat that if China could not control her own people the foreign powers would take the matter in hand. To this the viceroy re- plies that China is perfectly able to control her own people. The conclusion is that if able she must be unwilling.
 The News adds: Meanwhile the pow CTS do not intend to be satisfied with these replies and with what has been done by the Chinese government so far in the way of punishment and reparation. They have sent China what is virtually an ultimatum and will not take any inadequate reply. England's action, it is understood, is to be backed by other powers and it is thought force will be used if China is not conciliatory.