New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-08-23
INDEPENDENT OF CHINA.
rOREAN KINGS DECLARATION
,rpORTS OF CHINESE VICTORIES AT
CHUNGHO NOT CONFIRMED.
rar SINKING OF THE Kow-sHING SAID TO HAVE
prr,N JUSTIFIED BY THE COURT OF INQUIRY
THREE CHINESE FLEETS TO BE MO-
BILIZED-WAR FUND OF THE
JAPANESE MOBILES.

JAPANESE MOBILES.
Yondon. Aug "a dispatch to a news agency
4, this city says that the King of Corea has de-
,,ared himself Independent of the Chinese Gov
.,rn,ent and has appealed to Japan for assist
.nce TO expel the Chinese from the country.
Neither the Foreign Office nor the Chinese Le-
.ot,on has received any news of the battles men
.,ored by The Times correspondent this morn
loo Al the Legation the officials say that Cen
ava, Yeh who formerly commanded at Asan,
.os ioined his force Of 1000 men to the Chinese
,o-thern army at Ping-Yang. The success Of
,h,s movement the Chinese say. proves that the
Yonanese troops in Corea are either weak or neg
ligent.
The Central News is authority for the state
.,ent that the officials Of the japanese Legation
,sre deny that there has been any engagement
rscentlv. either or land or at sea. between the
,orces of Japan and China The officials also
aoc,are that the dispatch to The standard
.-or, Berlin. referring 10 Count tos remarks
concerning the interest of Japan and Russia in
.sa connletlon of the Siberian railway. was an
,,,arthon Of the Chinese Embassy in the German
capital.
A dispatch from Shanghai TO the Central News
avs the Chinese papers contain reports of a
hattie near Ping-Yang. in which $4,000 men on
.och side were engaged. Tie Chinese. the dis
match adds, assert that they have defeated the
,.nan4se force Confirmation of the report Of the
engagement. however, is wanting.
7, Hung Chang has ordered the mobilization
=, tho Northern. Southern and Central Chinese
Aae,s in the Gulf Of Pe-Chi-Li A Chinese fleet
a. convoving a number of troopships and coal
ships from Taku to Port Arthur
Tho Jananese mobiles have subscribed the sum
of $50 O0O 900 as a fund to be used in the prose-
euton Of the war This fund draws no interest;
a dispatch to the Central News from Shanghai
eavs that advices have been received there from
Chenmlpo to the effect that some unimportant
skirmishes have taken place in the great roau
north OF Pongsan. between the Chlhese anu
Japanese forces The positions Of the japanese
troops are unchanged and all the passes are
strongly held by japanese soldiers
WASHINGTON Aug. 22-The Japanese Legation
has received no news Of the engagement between
the japanese and Chinese forces reported from
Shanghai in dispatches published this morning
The officials Of the Legation discredit the report
NJ q Chinese victory and call attention 10 the
fact that the first account Of the engagement al
Asan described II as defeat for the japanese N
which their loss was 1000 killed and injured
The officials also express the strongest conn
dence in the accuracy Of the telegram received
at the Legation yesterday, announcing that the
finding of the British Naval court OF inquiry al
10 Japan. This statement concerning the acuon
of the court was undoubtedly based upon oiilcia
information was also the statement that the
British Admiral had reported TO his Government
that In his opinion. the sinking OF the koW-
Shng was justihaDle.
The japanese Legation denounces as unquah'
fedy false the assertion contained in the uis
patch published yesterday from the Shangna
correspondent Of THE London Times, that th'
commander Of the Naniwa ordered his men t'
FIRE upon the survivors from the kow-Shing Wh'
were struggling in the water This report ha'
already been amply disproved.
Paris Aug 22-The Toxic correspondent Oh III
"Journal des Debats' teleeraphs to his pape
tha, the court Of inquiry which has been ihVest
Eating al SHANGHAI the circumstances OF IN
sinking Of the Chinese transport koW-Siihs .!
the Japanese warship Naniwa has rendereu
decision holding that the action OF the 'dpan- 'a
commander in firing upon the transport wa
justified and that. therefore, the Japanese uoN @
ernment will not be called upon to make an! Oo'''
nsnsation for the destruction Of the vessel
Berl,n. Aug. 22-The officials of the Japahes
legation here understand that Admira! f'e
mantle the British naval commander IN EdS
Asatic waters has advised his GovernihehI nv no
70 claim indemnity for the sinking OF 'he ho"
Shng