Alexandria gazette. [volume] (Alexandria, D.C.) 1834-1974, 1894-10-06
TO-DAY'S TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
Foreign News.


LONDON, Oct. GA dispatch from
Shanghai states that 1000 soldiers of
Ii Hung Changes crack corps, now in
Corea, have deserted in consequence of
their having received no pay for some
time. 1t is believed that the deserters
have Joined the enemy's forces.
LONDON, Oct. Ga dispatch from
Hong Kong says that city and vicinity
we're visited yesterday by a typhoon
which did great damage to property
and caused the loss of several lives
The schooner Caleb Curtis, which was
in the harbor, was wrecked and the
captain, his wife and the entire crew
were drowned.
LONDON, Oct. 6.-News from Shang-
hal says it is believed in the latter city
that the Chinese forces which have been
defending Moukden have been hastily
summoned from that place in order to
oppose the projected japanese landing
either in the Gulf of Peechi or the Gulf
of Leao-Ton. The Chinese have been
hurriedly adding to the notifications of
New-C hwang in anticipation ola Japan
csc attack upon that port or attempted
landing in ills neighborhood. The Daily
Ne,cs announces that Vice Admiral
Fremantle, commanding the British
fleet in Chinese waters, has been in
| structed by telegraph to draw such re-
Inducements as be requires from
the nearest available British fleet.
The committee says that it is reported
that the other European powers have
agreed to strengthen their squadrons
in Chinese waters the same as Great
Britain strengthens hers. The Standard
published a letter from Pekin on the
unreadiness of China and the corrup-
ton that prevails in that country.
LONDON, Oct. 6.-The African mail
has brought news of serious fighting be-
tween Arabs and Belgians in the Congo
State. 1t is alleged that the Belgians
claimed truce after heavy fighting and
that they hemmed in the Arabs and
massacred them without quarter
Another account says that the Arabs,
commanded by Chief Rumiliza, after q
truce, agreed upon a conference which
was eventually begun but, almost i'm
mediately afterwards, the Arab powder
magazine exploded. This caused both
sides to suspect treachery and fighting
between them was resumed. The Arabs
were surrounded by Belgians and were
nearly all massacred. Chief Rumiliza
succeeded in escaping but the majority
of his followers persisted. More than
thirty chiefs were numbered among the
slain.
LONDON, Oct. 6.-The Pail Mall Ga
zettc commenting on the letter of the
ante-lynching committee and the reply
to it made by Governor Jones, of Ala
bama, says that the committees letter
was nothing short of impertinence, ad
ding: "We are entirely in agreement
with the snub administered in the Gov
errors reply. Public opinion in Amer
lea is enlightened and alert enough to
deal with its OBSERVATION-DISCLOSURES abuses
without the interference of a committee
of irresponsible English busybodies.
We hope that the lesson will not be
lost upon the Americans themselves
No body of Americans has yet gone to
the length of addressing the Lord Lieu
tenant of Ireland or the Chief Secretary
of Ireland on the administration of the
law 10 Ireland, but resolutions and the
like have been passed which come near
the anti-lynching committees imperti-
nence.
BERLIN, Oct. 6.-Prof Leyden, who
has just arrived from Spala, said today
that the Car is suffering from Bright's
disease in a mild form, complicated
with diabetes.