The Hawaiian gazette. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1865-1918, 1894-10-09
SOLDIERS THROW THEIR ARMS AWAY.
ardice and Viceroy Ii Hung Chang to
Take the Field Against the Japanese
Empty War Chests and no Cash.

river, which is opposing the advance @
the main japanese army in Korea, ha
mutined. The men are throwing. ava,
their arms, because they have no am
munition, being cut off from thei
base of supplies. The Chinese de
lenses have completely collapsed ant
are now only farce. There is PAM,
in Picking, and the very name of ;
japanese inspires terror everywhere
China is perfectly helpless.
VIENNA, Sept. 2S.-The Pollitischt
Correspondence says the following in
formation has reached st. Petersburg
from China and attracts the serious
attention of the Government: In
tense excitement prevails in all the
! provinces of China, and the dissatis-
faction of the highest officials in the
empire has reached point which in
dictates probable movement against
the reigning dynasty. The spirit ami.
mating the regular army is satisfac-
tory, but discipline has been much
! relaxed.
The irregular troops, upon which
the Government must now rely, are
committing great and frequent ex-
/ cesses everywhere, including the cap
itai. The war chest is as empty as the
State exchequer, and the Government
has the greatest difficulty in purchas-
ing the barest necessities for the troops
in the field.
LONDON, Sept. ga dispatch from
Shanghai says it is reported that the
japanese have succeeded in entering
the Chinese province of Manchuria,
and are advancing upon Moukden, the
capital.
1t is also said fighting has taken
place between the invaders and the
Chinese at a town between that city
and the frontier. The engagement is
said to have ended in a decisive vic
tory for the japanese, who established
themselves in the position previously
occupied by the Chinese troops.
No details of the reported battle are
given, and the Chinese at Shanghai
discredit the report.
A dispatch to the Times from Yoko-
hama says: The destination of the
second japanese army of 10000 men is
kept secret. The japanese army in
Korea is rapidly advancing north
ward. No resistance to its progress is
expected on this side of the Chinese
frontier. There is no truth liz the
rumOr of an armistice.
A dispatch from Shanghai, dated
Friday, says; 1t is believed the EN-
peror contemplates change of advis-
ers and the dismissal of all the man
darins and others who have been con-
cerned in the conduct of the war.
Affairs at Peking are tending toward
an imperial coup d'etat, involving the
overthrow of Ii Hung Chang and
other statesmen.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 29.--It is reported
that the Emperor has granted Ii
Hung Changes request to be allowed
to take the field in person, and that
Ii Hung Chang will make his head
quarters at Lu Tai, near Ksi Ping, the
present headquarters of the provis-
ional ommander-in-chief of Chih
Lii.
1t is also reported that the Chinese
troops have evacuated Korea and are
now massed at Chiu Lies Chang,
thirty miles westward of the Yalu
river.
LONDON, Sept. PA dispatch from
Shanghai dated today, says: The
Chinese naval officers now at Port
Arthur and Tien-Tsin are squabbling
among themselves as to the response
bility of the terrible Chinese losses in
the naval battle off the Yalu. A
court of inquiry is sitting and has al
ready found Captain Tong OF the war
chin rNCf. N1a1a r,trflfxv Of nd
in the face of the enemy. He was
condemned to be beheaded, and it is
believed that other officers will lose
their heads.
A telegram from the Kung Tactai,
at Port Arthur, received by the COM
mandant at Weihaiwei, positively
accuses the commander of the Chen
Yuen of taking flight with his vessel
before the battle at the first sight of
the enemy's smoke. Admiral Ting,
who renamed at Port Arthur, has
telegraphed to Weibaiwei making
grave charges against some of his
officers. The admiral declares that
the Ping YueD, the Kwang Thing
and the Chen Yuen, together with
four torpedo boats, were up the Yalu
river when the battle commenced.
There they remained until all the
fighting was over. They then sneaked
out and made for Port Arthur.
Two of these torpedo boats are said to
be still missing.
LONDON, Sept. 27.-The Pail Mall
Gazette this afternoon publishes a
letter from Shanghai dated Aug
ust 1st saying the Chinese navy
cannot fight because the ships
have only about twelve rounds of
ammunition per ship, the supply of
ammunition having been sold, accord
ing to the Pail Mall Gazette CORE
spondent, by the captains of the war
ships. The correspondent adds that
one of these commanders actually
sold one of his ships Armstrong guns
and went to sea one gun short.
A Shanghai dispatch states that
the Chinese cruiser Kwang Kai be-
came stranded on a reef while en-
deavoring to make her escape from
the Yalu battle and was afterward
blown up by the Japanese.
This makes total loss of five ships
to the Chinese, including one ship
which was rammed by the Isl Yuen
while trying to ram one CT the jap
anese vessels.