The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-11-13
BEFORE THE JAPANESE.
THE CHINESE ARMY THROWN
INTO A PANIC BY IT'S
REVERSES.

Robblng the Natives of Manchuria IN It's
Retreat Before the Forces of the Mi
kado --Viceroy Ii Hung Chang Ordered
to Pekin--An Attack Made on Port
Arthur and all Foreigners Removed
Confirmation Of the Report that China
is Ready for Peace.
LONDON. Nov. "a dispatch to the
Central NetUs from Shanghai says the
Chinese Army has been thrown INTO
panic by the Japanese victories and is
still fleeing before the Japanese. The
Chinese troops in Manchuria are rob
bling the natives and committing hor-
rlble atrocities wherever they pass.
The Japanese. on the other hand, are
treating the Chinese well, and are,
consequently, received with open arms
by the natives, who are furnishing
them with supplies of various kinds.
VIceroy LiHung Chang, the dispatch
also states, has been ordered to Pekin.
The Pail Mall Gazette publishes a
dispatch from Yokohama to a news
agency here saying that the steamer
Sydney had been allowed to leave
Kobe, whereshe had been detailed and
searched for articles c~ontraband of
war. Two Americans who were among
her passengers were taken into custody,
and one Chinaman was also arrested.
A dispatch from Kobe to the same
agency says the first Japanese army
has reached a port above Talien Wan
and established communication with
the second army.
A dispatch from Shanghai to the
Central NeWS says that all the foreign
ers residing Ia Port Arthur have ar
rived at Che Foo. An attack is now
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Japanese torpedo boats, and 1T is eX-
pected that fallen Wan will be attacked
during the day.
The st. James Gazette prints a dis
patch from Tien Tsin say ing that Great
Britain has sent an ultimatum to the
VicerOy OF Pc Chi Ii demanding the
payment of indemnity for the aIZur
and fOrcihle removal from the British
steamer Chun King some months ago
of a number of Japanese who we're
aboard that ", ssel. The ultimatUm
also demands that Taotai Sheng be
be dismissed and degraded, and that
the Chun King be saluted with twenty
one guns from the forts at Taku.
Should a settlement of the affair not
be effected within a week, the ultima
tum declares that the British feet in
Chinese waters will make repraisals
upon Chinese vessels.
The Foreign Office, in response 10 in
quiries, confirms. the report that the
Chinese Government has requested
the powers having immediate com
mercial interests at stake to intervene
for the purpose of securing settlement
of the war with Japan.
The Exchange Telegraph Company,
Limited, is authorized to deny the
statement of Reuters Telegraph Com
pany printed in the St James's Gazette,
thai the British Government had sent
an ultimatum to the Viceroy of Pc
Chilli demanding a settlement Of the
Chun- King affair. No ultimatum. the
Exchange Telegraph Company says. is
Re quired. as the Chinese Government
has rendered an apology for the out
rage, and has agreed to pay the indem-
nifty demanded and that the Chun-
King shall be saldted by the forts.
The new Chinese loan is well received
on the London market. The consensus
of opinion in banking circles is that a
much larger amount would have been
subscribed if it had been even q 4 or a
Al per cent. gold loan.
WASHINGTON, Nov. 6.-Secretary
Gresham this morning received the fol-
lowing cablegram from Minister DENLY
/ CAo ChAh OopShCSO AANNO GAhCL II "
Choo, on the Gulf Of L~iastrOng. Ap.
preaching Shanghai Kwan. Two cam
patgns against Moukden and TEN
Tsin."
State Department officials we're
puzzled by the dispatch, and think
King ChoO, at the head of the Gulf of
LiastrOng, should be substituted for
Foo Choo. King Choo is directly west
of New Chang, and is on the high road
from Moukden to Pekin.
Army officers, however, who are
watching the campaign systematically,
adhere to the belief that Foo Choo is
correct, as that point is on the main
high road which encircles the gulf,
and is the natural junction between
the forces that crossed the Yalu River
from Core and the army which landed
recently from Port Arthur.
Foo ChOo is north of Port Arthur. q
little distance, and an army, after
taking Foo ChOo, would naturally be
approaching Shanghai Kwan" il
TEN Tsiu was it's objective point.
Military intelligence experts, however,
doubt, from Mr.. Denby's dispatch,
that In addition tO the Moukden cam
paign a sererate n against Tien Tsin
lis already well advanced, and they
are confident that about the time
Tien Tsin is invested with one Japan
ese army, the other. having taken
Moukden; will be on the march toward
Pekin.
Shanghai Kwan is the point where
the great wall reaches the coast, and
is a place of considerable strategical
Importance.
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