The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1894-12-01
JAP ANESE NEWS
Advices Per Steamship From
the Island En-
pire.
WAR CORRESPONDENCE.
Alleged Plot of Americans to
Destroy japanese
WarShips.
FRED GRANT IMPLICATED.
The Arrested Suspects Released ON Pa.
rOia-Recent Military Operations.
Anarchy Rampant in
Coros.
BY tho Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
YOKOHAMA, Nov. II, per Northern Pa.
oific steamer Viotoria, via Victoria, B. c.,
Nov. 30.-No trouble is expected from
the affair Of the steamship Sydney. The
United States government is disposed to
regard the action of Japan ~ justi6able
on the ground of self defense. and Great
Britain comedies, although by England
some form Of explanation or apology
may deemed be desirable. France has
has taken less easy view OF the situa-
ton, but is not disposed TO make serious
trouble. Her opinion appears to be
that the exigency was not sufficiently
alarming to call for so grave q measure
as the removal of passengers from .
French mail steamship. Later de vslop-
ments undoubtedly indicate that thsss
self-deolared explosive experts were ir'
responsible Spectators, if not imposters,
but the earliest information concerning
them pointed to very different con.
clusion.
FRED GRANT IMPLICATED.
Reports were received here impiicRt.
ing Col. Fred Grant with the undertak-
ing and his aame carried with it weight
which would not have been accorded to
unknown adventures. Its we'll known
that Ii Hung Chang holds the memory
of General Grant in reverence and he
would presumably have been disposed
to place unusual resources at the dis
posal of q party representing his son.
The sums alleged to have been prom
ised to Colonel Grant and to have been
actually advanced to his alleged agents,
correspond exactly with those set forth
by the travellers on the Gaelic and sgd
ney. Taking these and other correls-
tive facts into consideration, the Jap-
anese government believed itself under
the necessity of guarding against tho
threatened danger.
The French diplomatic and consular
officers were powerless to intervene, had
they been inclined to do go, and relying
upon authorized rulings of international
law, Japan availed herself OF what she
claims as a belligerent right.
AMERICANS RELEASED.
The American passengers were res
leased on November IL. after taking
oaths not to aid China in any manner,
and expressing in writing their graft
tude for the leniency OF their treatment
by the Japanese government. Mona,
the attsche OF the Chinere legation at
Washington, was sent to Hiroshima for
further examination.
A telegram from Paris announces that
the French government has referred
the several points of the Sydney affair
to its legal advisers, who pronounce
Judgment that Japan acted within her
rights and is not liable to censure under
the rules OF international law.
MEETING OF THE DIET.
The seventh aession of the diet has
been convened to meet in Toxic Decsm.
Der ed. 1t is not anticipated that the
proceedings will be go harmonious ga
thoae of the extraordinary session lately
held at Hiroshima. The sole purpose
of that gathering was to authorize war
expenditures end all domestic dissen-
sions were allowed to rest by common
consent. The loyal and patriotic pur-
poses OF the members having been def.
nitely avowed, the opposition now con-
siders itself free to resume its GUS
tomary violent attitude toward the
government. Only under one extrems
influence. like tina. produced by the war,
could parliamentary quarrels be tenn
porarily laid aside.
A PRIVATE OPINION,
As previously reported, the minister
OF foreign affairs recently sent COM
munication to the governor OF tha port
Kansgawa in which it was stated that
Japanese subjects serving on board
United States ships in Japanese ports
must be regarded by the government as
coming under the jurisdiction of the
imperial courta whenever charged with
offenses against the law. As this
opinion is contrary to the position
maintained by the United States, the
question was brought up for diplomatic
discussion. 1t now appears that the
foreign minister had no intention to
deliver an ex cathedra judgment on the
subject. The native newspaper which
printed his letter to the local governor
has been fined 20 yen for publishing q
private official document without per-
mission. In the course OF the trial the
prosecuting attorney remarked that the
administrative officials were not con-
cerned with the questions of jurisdic-
ton. and that the correspondence under
consideration conveyed only the indi-
vidual views OF the writer's, and the
legal point at issue 10 in no way affected