, 1894-11-14

Tientsin. A war correspondent with the ia
paneso army on the Yaloo is, it is true, al
lowed TO telegraph to the Central News AS
ISOLATION and the Times; but his messages
we SUSPECT, are pretty severely edited. The
latest, dated October 10th, is not quite SO IA
vourable to the Japanese us it looks. Mar
shall Yam agata has taken Wi-iu on the Yaloo,
and is marching, it is probable, on Moukden
but the march is very slow, the roadless con-
dition of the country delaying the artillery.
and the difficulties of commissarlat being
great. This is important because time is Of
tho last Importance to Japan, ard their
General, if he is really threatening MOukden,
has an army to overthrow which ought TO
contain some fighting men from Tartary. 1t
is possible, however, that tn advance on
Moukden Is a fsint; that the true objective is
Pekir; and that the thirty thousand japanese
afoat have landed somewhere on the coast,
probably at the head Of tue railway to Pekin.
All that is certain, however, is that the JapA-
nese warships patrol the Gulf of Pechili, and
that they have ali immense feet of large
transports.
The accounts of Chinese disorganisation.
are simply horrible. Everybody steals except
Fl Hung Chang; there are practically no
military stores; and the unfed divisions,
marching up from the interior, lay waste the
country as they go. It must be rememb red,
however, that Asia is not Europe, that the
M6gul armies used to do the same thing, yet
fought on occasion; and that soldiers In the
East claim frightful license. NJ head for
China has yet appea ed, nor any soldier
capable of winning a battle-unless it be-
General Yeh, who seems to have fought we'll
at Ashland the conflict width the Palace
is evidently not yet ended, Note. however;
tn at the bulletin makers spe k with increas-
ina, frequency of the personal action" Of the
EN- poror, That must mean one of two
THU lgs. Either he is acting, in which case
Chin la has IL head who, competent or incon-
pete Mt, will be obeyed, or one OF the factions
has mastered him, and is putting forward
his lame III order to secure power. We
SUPP jose some Ambassador knows something,
but the absence of any account at once new
and true is unexampled in the modern history
of tt le Press.
A terrible railway accident occurred on
Tue. Iday on the South Eastern Railway at
Cha r:ham, a place near Canterbury. A wag-
gon full Of hop -pickers- here are said to
havc, been twenty, including the babies
proc eeding down a country road, was brought
to a standstill BY a level crossing. Two boys
jun oed down and opened the first set Of gates.
The Wagon then moved on to the line.
Befo re, however, the further gates could be
open ell, a rain-the approach OF which had
not been noticed-was upon them. The
drive Il tried to back the heavy Wagon, but
of G. purse without successes. The effect Of
the collision was terrible. Seven persons
were killed and eight iLjuIed. Two children
-ont3a year and eigh months old, and
auoth er five years old-were killed out. light,
and 5 tx were injured. Imne lately, no ons
was t. D blame for the accident, but it is i'm
possil lie not to feel that any company which
does ] lot attempt to get rid Of it's level cross
ings on regular highways incurs a grave
respoi lsibility. 1t is alleged that the expense
is too great, but that is exaggerated. If the
Comp any keeps a man to open and shut the
gates, which it ought to do, his wages are no
more than the interest on the bridge, which is
the al tentative. The South Eastern will find
it goo, 4 policy to get rid Of these death
traps.
The Times of Wednesday gives some very Gu
rious t acts as to the came III Australia. The
white men have taken over the beast, which
is the East iucarnate, and which the East
has used for Thousands of years without hav.
ing dreamed of improving aim, and have at
once prod uced a greatly superior animal. The
Austria liza 4 breeds his camels, as he does his
sheep, on scientific principles, SO that within
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