The herald., 1894-08-19
WAR SPIRIT IN JAPAN.
1t Amounts to a Perfect
Mania.
Rapid Arming and Mobilizing
Of Troops.
The Glory Of the Empire to be Shown
to the World.
Terms of Pcace to bs Dictated Under
the Walls of Peking-Particulars
of Recent Battles on Land
and Ses.
By the Associated Press.

By the Associated Press.
SAN Francisco, Aug. 1S.-The steam
hip China arrived this afternoon from
Asiatic ports. She brings Yokohama
advices to August 9th, two days later
than the news received at Victoria on
the Empress OF Japan. The news ad-
vices continue, however, to be OF an un-
satisfactory character.
War having been formally declared,
the Chinese minister and consnls were
preparing, when the China called, to
leave Japan. The flag on the Chinese
consulate vt Y yokohama had been hauled
down and the archives conveyed to the
United States consulate-genersl. 1t was
also reported that all the japanese Of
6cials we're hurriedly leaving China.
MANIA FOR WAR.
The Japanese nation appeared to be
affected with a mania for war. So
fierce is the public spirit for war that
the Constitutional Reform party is out
with q manifesto declaring it TO be the
duty OF the Japanese army to force its
way into China, to dictate terms of
peace under the walls of its capital. and
to display the glory OF the Japanese
empire. The Constitutional Reform
party is a wing of the opposition, and 10
led by such distinguished politicians an
Kusumoto, president OF the last diet, and
others OF equal repute.
FORMIDABLE PREPARATIONS.
Refer ing to Jspan's formidable pre-
para,ions for war the Japan Mail says:
"Nothing is more remarkable about
the present complication than the quiet,
business-like manner in which every
thing has been arranged by the Japan
ese. 7 Z mobilization of 100000 men
has pr Dsded as regularly and evenly as
q long-established railway service. Not
one instance is recorded of men Of the
reserves failing to report themselves.
They have been drafted off to Corea or
assigned to their posts in Japan az
though the huge work were little
everyday lark. Now, as we write, over
80 transports are conveying soldiers BY
thousands to Corea without hitch or
seeming difficulty of any kind. More.
over, the troops already in the peninsula
have been working steadily and indus
triously, so that the little kingdom is
already furnished with very complete
service of telegraph. The last pole was
to have been put up and the laet wire
stretched on the evening of August 1st."
WAR NEWS SUPPRESSED.
But Notwithstanding the Japanese
governments new facilities for getting
information. the Japanese public is kept
in ignorance of the state of affairs in
Corea, as the government neither pub
fishes any thing itself nor allows news
papers to do 30, except such little news
as meets with it's approval.
When the China sailed it was defir-
itely known in Yokohama that there
had been a naval engagement during
which the transport Kow Shing had
been sunk, the government having been
unable to longer suppress the facts, but
that was all that was known with cer-
tainty. There were rumors that q por-
sion of the Japanese feet was blockaded
by the Chinese, and that the Japanese
had lost one or two vessels. There were
also rumors that the Japanese had been
victorious in a land engagement, but no
particulars could be had There was q
general impression, however, that fight
ing had been going on ct several places
since July 25th.
eICKNEss AMONG THE TROOPS.
The Tien-Tsin correspondent OF this
China Gazette says:
"We hear from Corea on good authori.
ty that great deal of sick nees prevails
among the Chinese troops, and that thev
are hanging themselves by dozens in
despair OF their surroundings The
j Japanese also are in pretty bad plight,
a great number CT them having died and
illness is still rife in their camp, but the
death rate ia very much higher among
the Chin ena -