The Yale expositor., 1894-12-07
NEWS OF ALL KINDS.
EVENTS OF GENERAL INTEREST
AND IMPORTAN CE.
Ii lung Chang. viceroy of China, said to
be n Traitor-Japan Refuses to Negoti-
ate Peace With lettering 90 Inhuman
Butchery of Prisoners OF War.
Chlna,s Ponce Envoy Unsuccessful.

China's Peace Envoy Unsuccessful.
London: Dispatches from Shanghai
and Toxic say that the mission of Mr..
DIFFERING, the Chinese customs official
who was sent to Japan TO sue for
peace, has been failure. In eXplana-
ton the Japanese claim that Dletering
was not from the emperor of China,
but had been sent by LII Hung Chang
or others who were not in position
TO make binding offer of a stipulated
indemnity, etc.
The Russian Bear Growls.
ST. Petersburg: The Novoe Nremya
(semi-otiicial declares that the irrecon-
cilinble attitude of Japan in refusing
China's peace proposals renders 1T in
cumbent upon the powers TO demand
explanations in regard TO Japan ulti-
mate objects
Horrible Barbarities at Port Arthur.
London: Chinese fugitives who have
arrived at Che Foo state that the Jap
anese sacked Port Arthur, shooting
everyone, old and young, and that pill
lage and murder were supreme for
three DAYS. They add that the dead
are barbarOusly mutilated, their hands,
noses and ears being chopped Off, and
say that other namelcss atrocities were
committed. No resistance was offered
by the people. An explanation of this
frightful work by the hitherto humane
Japs may be found in the fact that
when the Jap-nese captured Ping
Yang and Port Arthur they found the
bodies of their comrades who had been
previously. made prisoners, chopped,
hacked, mutilated and burned, and
from the dead and wounded vanquished
they cut off the heads, mutilated them
in various ways and strung them to-
gether with a rope passed through the
mouth and gullet. The Japanese have
seen these CHASTITY remnants of their
comrades A barrel full of the mutt
lated remains were found by the Jap
anese after the battle of Ping Yang.
At Port Arthur the Japanese reported
that civilians fired upon them from the
houses, and they therefore deemed II
necessary TO eXterminate them. The
japanese were further excited by find
ing the mutilated remains of Japanese
prisoners. Some of these prisoners
had been burned alive.
Japs Win Another Battle.
Hiroshima: A detachment of the first
Japanese army defeated a large force
of Chinese in the vlciuity of Molten
Lien, on the road to Moukden. The
japanese are said to have lost 40 killed
and wounded, but the Chinese loss was
very large.
Washington An official who is in a
position to know the facts, says that
/ Japan has made a reply favoring
| China's peace proffer presented through
United States Minister DENLY. 1t still
remains, however, for China to make
it plain that she can and will execute
what she has proposed, and until this
is done there will be no cessation of
| hostilities.
Japan has augmented her navy by
the purchase of the crack Chilean
cruiser Esmeralda. The purchase price
was over 81, 900, 900 in gold, cash.
Ii Hung Chang Impeached as a Traitor.
London: According to a dispatch
| from Shanghai, a sensation was caused
there by memorial to the throne,
signed by over l2O high officials, inn
peaching Ii Hung Chang and charging
him with corruption, peculation and
deception. The memorial also says
that Ii Hung Chang rejoiced at the
Japanese victories, and prevented the
Chinese from achieving success. He is
| SAID to have represented that CHINA
was prepared for war when he knew
the contrary was the case. Ii Hung
Chang is also said to be implicated
| with Prince kung, the emperor 5
uncle. and president of the Tung Ii
| Lamcn and president of the admiralty,
who was recently appointed dictator,
and with the Tatoai Wu and the COM
mander of the Chinese forces at Port
Arthur. These three officials are said
by the signers of the memorial to be
guilty of high treason and of selling
state secrets and war material to the
enemy. They are further charged
with investing money in Japan, with
harboring reasonable designs against
the Chinese empire and with conspir.
ing to procure the overthrow of China.
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