The enterprise. [volume] (Wellington, Ohio) 188?-1899, 1894-08-01
ALONG WAR PREDICTED.
China and Japan Rapidly Prepar-
ing for the Conflict.
mise is Impossible Loss of Life
In the Recent Engagement was
Much Worse than at First
Reported.

WASHINGTON, July 30.-There were
no developments yesterday in the situ-
alton between China and Japan at this
end of the line. The efforts of Eu-
ropean governments to secure the con-
sent of the belligerent powers to ac-
cept mediation by the United States,
so far as can be learned have not been
attended with success. Neither the
Chinese nor the Japanese legation in
this city has received any information
with respect to the matter and the inn
preston prevails here, as in Europe,
that compromise is no longer posi-
BILE. While it is understood that the
good offices Of the United States would
be most gladly exercised, no advices
have been received by the authorities
here to Indicate that China or Japan
will invoke them.
LONDON, July 3O-The Central News
has this dispatch from Shanghai:
"The Chinese warship Tsao-Khan,
which was captured by a japanese war
ship off the coast of Round island, is
vessel Of an obsolete model. Although
completely outmatched by the Japan
ese cruiser, the troopship offered some
resistance and lost fully 100 men,
killed and wounded, before she yielded.
She was entirely disabled when the
Japanese boarded her.
"The troopship Kew-Shung tried to
get away as soon as the japanese war
ship began its attack, and made only
weak running fight. The Japanese
guns swept her decks and carried off
the Chinese soldiers by the score. The
latest estimate of the number aboard
her is 1,7O0. Only forty survived the
laundering of the ship. They say that
all her officers were killed before she
went down,
1.-THE announcement that the rest OF
the Chinese transports arrived safely
\ at Corea and landed their men is con-
firmed. On the 9th the Japanese
fusiladed heavily those who had landed
on the Goth at Yachan. The Japanese
officers hoped thus to prevent the juno
ton of the Chinese with the Coreans
near Seoul. Whether they accom-
plished their object is not known.
"No news of the hostilities can be OBJ
tained from Pekin. Code messages are
refused at the telegraph Offices, and no
other messages referring to current af-
fairs are accepted. The outlying bat
talions of the northern army are con-
centrating rapidly at Takua, the rem
devious from which the regiments are
embarked for Corea.
"The work of preparing harbor de.
fences here advances rapidly. Tor
pedoes are being laid in the north chan.
mel at the entrance of the Yang-Tse
Kiang, Great quantities of ammuni
tion have been purchased by the gov
ernment and are being collected at the
ports for shipment The expectation
of rice and grain has been prohibited
Trade is paralyzed. The coastipf
steamers and small craft are afraid t.
leave the harbors. While everything
looks and sounds like war, the Chinese
officials. continue to maintain that wal
has not been declared.
YOKOHAMA, July 30.-The army an(
navy reserves have been summoned in
to service. The Chinese residents O
Japan are fleeing in large numbers
Reliable news has reaced Toxic tha
the main body of Chinese troops crossed
the northwestern frontier of Corea OF
July 25. In official circles everybody il
convinced that China's recent negotia
tions were mere subterfuge to gair
time and concentrate her forces with {
view to combining with the Corean
for an attack. 1t is rumored that tn,
Japanese ships have been fred on agat
from the shore
BERLIN, July 30.--The Vossische lei
tung maintains that Japan will win il
;. the war and blames China for refusing
= to adhere faithfully to the spirit of he
treaties and for trying to keep Corea il
: barbarism. China, it says, is endeavor
ing to stop the progress of civilization
in east Asia. The majority of Berlil
\ dailies take this view of the confic
, and express the hope that the war will
crush the ignorant self-conceit of tn
: Pekin government. The victory o
Japan, they say. would mean the re
form of the barbarous abuses of Corea'
internal affairs, the introduction o
proper schools and of telegraphs an,
railroads and the opening of rich mines