The Scranton tribune. [volume] (Scranton, Pa.) 1891-1910, 1894-09-17
JAPANESE ARE
VICTORIOUS
They Easily VaHQuiSh the Enemy at Sing
Cha0l,
WYLIE MURDERERS EXECUTED
Chinese Soldiers Who Killed the Pres
byterian Missionary Are Punished.
Six Survivors of the Troop Ship
Chean Wrecked at Formosa Arrive
at Shanghai-Toroedoes in the Gulf
of Tioko-Chapes DESTROYED by
Chinese to Be Restored. ~
.LoNDoN SAINT. 16

LONDON. Sept 16
IN DESPATCH to the Central News
IAi from Toxic says that news has
Il\ been received from Fusan that
Ii U Japanese corps has engaged and
routed the enemy at Sing Chuen, and
that the japanese advancing army has
engaged and routed the enemy at
Chueng-ChwG. The Chinese reireated
to Vingiau. Details of these battles
are lacking. The Japanese army is
crossing the Tatong river.
Field Marshal Count YamRgata has
arrived at Seoul, where he will assume
chief command.
A dispatch from Hong Kong says
that the enlistment of Europeans in
the Chinese army has been stopped.
Seven British custom officers, who had
enlisted, have returned TO their former
duties. The entire southern squadron
Of the Chinese navy has been ordered
north,
A dispatch to the Central News from
Shanghai says that six Of the survivors
Of the Chinese troop ship Cheap, which
was wrecked at Chetuug while Ell loute
to Formosa with l. 400 'soldiers on
board, have arrived here. They report
that 200 Of the persons on board the
Cnean were drowned.
The dispatch further says that no
news has been received in Shanghai of
anv engagement in Corea since the
engagem Mt Of Aug. 13, when the Chin
ese were defeated. with the loss Of 500
men.
The murderers of the Rsv. James
Wylie. the Presbyterian missionary
who was recently killed at Liao. Yang
by Chinese soldiers who were on their
way to Korea, have been executed. The
officers in command of the troops who
committed the crime We're cashiered
The chapels which were destroyed by
the soldiers are to be destored to the
condition in which they were prior to
the outrage at the expauss of the peo-
pie living in the neighborhooi.
ToRPEDoEs WILL BE LAID.
WASHINGTON, Sept, 16 The depart
ment of state has received from Minis :
ter Dun at Toxic copy OF note from
the Japanese minister of foreign affairs,
dated August 16, informing him that
torpedoes would be laid in the Gulf of
Toxic and harbor of Nagasaki, and
enclosing directions for the guidance
of vessels entering or leaving those
places. Mr.. Dun also enclosss ano-
tice to captains and masters of
American vessels, which he publis shed.
containing the directions referred to
The letter of the Japanese tniu-
lister of foreign affairs says that as sui.
marine cables are to be laid down at
the entrance of the Toxic and Nagas-
aki. it has been determined by the i'm
perial government that after noon OF
Aug, % all vessels shall be prohib bited
to enter or leave the gulf or harbol
without the conduct of pilot vessel
having on board an officer of the i'm
periai navy in charge of the pilotage,
and no vessel shall be permitted either
to enter or leave those places between
sunset and sunrise.
The date of the enforcement of the
order being 50 near at hand. foreign
vessels arrieing from distant places
which might not be- acquainted with
the new regulations would be notified
by the pilot VESSELS.