The morning call., 1894-10-23

which will bring things down to about
l9O4, when Chung thinks he will have fin-
lsned, and not Jap but will have been
swept of the face of the earth and sea.
Ihere are a few other Chinese who have
slightly different ideas frnE, Chung. They
ADMIT thai, when he has finished, the war
VIII probably be over, but they refuse to
promise TO give him credit for ending it.
Chen Hung. who keeps grocery at 734
dupont street, was fnli Of information on
tne Chlnese war yesterday. He was chew
Ing The sacred rag in SOOy Pong Toys
steam-oeer joint in Sullivan alley with
couple of friends, far from the sounding
OIL the dreary monotone of the voice OF
Chung Murphy. He was perched in the
only cushioned chair in the place and was
giving his hearers the benefit of his Giges-
ton OF papers and letters received on the
City OF Peking Sunday. According to
Chung, the backbone of the Japanese
army will begin to weaken in about three
weeks, when the Chinese commence real
war. From advices received he has de-
cided that the Chinese will corner the
armies of Japan in tbe province of Foo
Shan. the land of the Tiger Mountain. and
that there will not be enough of the army
grease spot.
The Chinese DELAY, he explained, was
Tor two reas0ns-one 10 enable the levy OF
troops. the other that winter should be al
lowed fairly to set in so that the rivers
would be frozen and troops could be
marched over them by the thousand.
Private advices to Chinese commercial
houses here, Chen Hung says, show that
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the Emperor OF China is bent on war OF
extermin alton. Two months ago the i'm
perial mandate was sent to twentv-one oil
the provinces of the Celestial Empire that
10000 troops should be raised and
equipped in each of them at once. At the
same time an imperial order was issued
that any officer of the army er Govern
ment who was guilty of uttering senti-
ments favorable TO a peaceful settlement
of the difficulty would be at once be-
headed
"Whatt'ell Chines care for one or two
million men," said Chen Hung, getting ex-
cited; "she got plenty mere. When the
winter comes and the ice she pour men
into Foo Shan and crush the Japs."
There were grunts of approval from his
Chinese brethren, who, while they failed
to understand Chen Hung's nearly pure
English, could not mistake his actions.
There were emphatic stamps on the floor.
too, which would lead one to believe that
the heather were tramDling fgurative
Japs under their heels.
Chen Hung admitted that the Japs had
taken 1000 prisoners in battle al Asan,
but utterly secuted the story of the slaugh-
ter at Ping Yang or the capture of 10000
prisoners by the Japs at that place. He
also denied that there had been more than
one really big naval battle and said that
occurred on September 26. After he had
stated all this he went on to explain that
history proved that japan could not whip
China. This was the fifth time the two
countries had come together, and every
time the Japs got the worst of it.
The same general conditions prevailed
now and he could not, for the life of him.
see where the Japs could wiz, in the face
of the men and money of China.
And Chen lungs opinion seems to be
the one generally accepted in Chinatown.
The only dissenters are the worshIpers at
the shrine of Jongleur Chung Murphy.
who prefer romance 10 facts and wish to
engulf Japan by way of the deadly poeti-
cal parallels as being the surest, if the slow
est, method. These are the eaters of
hasheesh. the chewers of betel, the smok-