People's voice. [volume] (Wellington, Sumner County, Kansas) 1890-1917, 1894-10-11
THEY ARE PREPARING TO
SWOOP DOWN ON CHINA.
entered The GULF OF PE-CHILL
Their Presence Has Caused the Greatest
Excitement in Shanghai and Else
where Throughout the FlOwery
Kingdom-Two Thousand Chi
nese Soldiers Desert on
Account of No ray.

HONDON, OCl. CA ulSpdlcu 1rO.
Shanghai says that the masters Of Sc
eral Chinese junks which arrived at
Chefoo yesterday reported having
sighted Tuesday large feet of Jap
anese transports, escorted by war
ships entering the gulf of Pe-Chili,
numbering 70 ships, Their presence
in the gulf of Pc Chilli has caused the
greatest excitement at Shanghai and
elsewhere. 1t is believed that it is
the expeditionaIy force of 10000 men
which left hiroshima, the japanese
headquarters, September 2G, under
sealed orders and under command of
Field Marsha lCount 0yama, japanese
minister of war This force composed
the second japanese army corps and
was escorted by the second japanese
squadron.
A dispatch received at New Chwang
says that the Chinese are in full re.
treat from Moukden, which is threat
ened by advance of Japanese troops
from Corea and the Japanese force
said to have been landed near Possiel
bay and not far from the Russian ter
ritOry bordering on Corea and the
Chinese province of Manchuria.
The Chinese government has au-
thOrized firm in Tien Tsin to raise
loan of Sj000O, 900. The sum of S., OOO,-
900 has already been placed privately.
The rates are not stated.
The Siamese government has sold
to Chinese traders $4,000 rifles of an
obsolete type. The price paid by the
traders was about nine cents for each
rifle.
Wang Feng Tsao, late Chinese min
lister at Toxic, in an audience at Pekin
was severely censured on account of
his ignorance of the japanese designs
in COrea.
Two japanese spies have been ar
rested at Mankin. One of them con-
fessed that he had been furnishing
information to the Japanese and
added that he regretted that he had
been captured before he finished his
work. The other, clerk to the other
spy, pleaded youth and ignorance in
extenuation of his offense. Both are
now awaiting the decision of the vice
roy in their cases.
1t is reported that 1000 men be-
longing to the Sheng division of Ii
Hung Changes crack corps, now in
Corea, have deserted on account of
their pay being in arrears. 1t is also
rumored that they have joined the
enemy.
LONDON, Oct. GA dispatch re-
ceived here from Berlin says that it
has been learned on high authority
that the meeting of the British cab
met was called to discuss a proposal
for combined action on the part of
the powers to interfere and prevent
the overthrow of tie Chinese
dynasty, which, it was claimed, would
result in anarchy in the empire and
OAIC lldSNdSlCC VI europeans. OQe
power, it is said, favored a COM
pulsory settlement of the Chinese
japanese dispute. The dispatch adds
that Sir William Vernon Harcount,
chancellor of the exchequer, sup.
ported this view of the action to be
taken, but Prime Minister Roseberv
and majority of the cabinet believed
active interference would be more
dangerous than non-intervention, and
it was decided that Great Britain
should not interfere.
Chancellor Won Caprivi has gone to
Hubertusstock, where the kaiser is
now staying, to consult his majesty
regarding the situation in China. The
German press is inclined to view the
situation in the East with alarm. The
statement of the Vossische- Zeitung,
that IN its opinion the Corean war is
the forerunner of a great Anglo Rus
sian collision, is generally echoed in
the provincial press.