Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1891-09-14
FROM CHINA.
Growing State o' DA' ger Tor Forsis
srs In that Land.

SAN FRANCItCo, sept. 10 The brltish
ste, m ar China arrived this morning from
Hong Kong bnd Yokohama. She brings
Advices from Chiux TO August 80 Sir
john Welsom, British minister, protect. d
strongly sgsipst the disAtory manner 10
which the ChiG.se Sc goverI msnt dealt with
he recent riots, and put three questions to
the government, sski & fret, why edict 90
the subject on rios was not despatched
ihroughoui the empire by telegraph. Sec
| ond. why thew uhu mag ,strate who tried to
stop the riots was dc graded while his gu
perior who did nothing was not punished
TniId, ~hy the Punishment Of the gully ri
Wusuch vas delayed. The Chinese gov
.rnmsi seIt these questions to His Excel
lercy, Lii Hung Chang TO be answered.
Chang replied. Frstit is not the custt m
CT China to send its .dicts by wire. Second,
the msgistrste was degraded for o,h.r
reasons. Third. the rioters had bsen pun
ished, two being executed, AMI Others
otherwise punished. The North Chins
Ns~s, commenting editoriAily on tie
answers, says that the first waa . mere suit
terfuge, ami that the Case was too serious
to admit Of the delay caused BY the use Of
messengers. IL Vas stated at the time that
The msyrtrste uss degraded, ss conces-
zion to the natives who denounced him for
doing bis duty IN the affair.
The rep is q pslpsbie evasion, ard IN y
shows that China cannot be dtpe nded N
by foreign powers. AS for the execution
of The iwo cnipfiis, this is unsatisfactory,
as it is coming far short of he require
meBts of Chine &c law in cases OF mud
smo, III, III, elves Mardefs Of fore goeIs
mu.t MT b pu uii.hsd more lightly than the
murder OF Chinese Lord Ssli.buty addcd
to his lbrte Quertini.s the d, mud tust
Human, hich Is = ho,bed Of the sn'i-foretRn
sent mert III China, be opened to trad
coupi-d ~i,h the threat that il China could
not control her own people. foreign po~es
would take matters in baud. 70 this th-
vict roy replies that China 10 perfectly ale
to CD roi her own people. The conclusion
is that II -he 10 able sh- must be un~iii ng
The News adds: Mean~hi e the powers
do hot Intend to be ssusfi Cd with these re-
plies and with what has been done by tie
hi e.e government so far in the vAy Of
way u punishment and reps alton. They
LAve sent China ~hal 10 virtually an ulti-
matum ard will not take any inadequate
reply. u glands action, it is undefstot d,
is to be- backed by other posen. 1t is
ho u5ht that force vii be used IL China 10
boI COZ cil4toiy.
At Ne~ Chsog DR.. Gsieg. missionarg
doctor, was assassinated by soldiers. Tne
matter was placed ia the hands OF tue
British con,ul. Reports from Foo Chow
Of the killing Of three missionaries up ,he
c1u,,try prove false. There was seriou.
Ia d-liJe in the bad OF The Yang Tsee op-
posile Chian Kisng. The people were
varied By premonitory trembli. g. and Il ID
in their night clolh-s. Hardly had they
escapsd wh,n a large tract OF grou
slid irto the river carrying about hundred
houses And shops with it No lives lost
Iheie - srious tsuble in Sin Tang.
Du ch OF Wta Bofneo, bstseen DJA Az,
.sd Malays THREE thousand DyAks are in
~ ms Asaus. the Malay RajAh over taxes
r., htii z has t.ken piscs 81 d several we're
kIii.d n each ride. TIE Country 10 suffer
,pg from famine, .bich is believed 10 be
the root Of the troubles A Du'pbsr OF sol
der. were set 70 the dis, ff>cted diAricts.
The following advices are from Japan :;
August Is. sn American vessel, lame hot
sn ,1n. ~.s sreck.d in Kan No Wa Bay.
Sae had crew VI / 7 and tue caBtain'I wife
all bat tao were drowned.
BJnin Islands were visited by q severe
storm lssting "a lours aud ,ing great
damage. Sugar cane crops, tue principal
pr. duct, are reduced so p.f cent. by Ghe
storm Many houses we're bio~n d,~n.
By the r.c-ns f,sds in To IA Shima
pr, lecture. 354 houses se's de.tfoyed and
over 600 nj red. Tso persons we're
drosnsd asd 81 vsssels destroyed.