The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1894-09-17
WORRIED IN MANY WAYS.
Chinese Government Plagued With
DiSSolSiOlS and Poverty.

perintend Ii Hung Chang-The Aged
Viceroy Can Find No Competent
Commander, and Has No Money to
Operate With.
London, Sept. ga formidable band
of robbers armed with rifles made
an attack in the vicinity of New
Clwang upon number of refu-
gees who had been obliged to flee from
Yalu. Mr.. Mcintyre, a missionary, who
was one of the party, narrowly escaped
death. The refugees were without food,
and were compelled to eat the flesh of
their horses. The residents of New
Chwang are pleading for the presence of
gunboat to protect them.
TROOPS MOVING TO CHINA.
A dispatch from Shanghai dated to-
day SAYS that news has reached Tien-
Tsin that a fleet of twenty-one Japanese
transports, conveying 10000 troops, sailed
a few days ago from Japanese port. 1t
is supposed that it is the inten-
tion of the Japanese commander to
land his forces at some point on the
Chinese coast. The Chinese feet under
the command of Admiral Ting has sailed
south for the purpose of intercepting the
Japanese. Orders have been sent to all
the Chinese ports TO maintain a most
enemy.
The correspondent of the Times at
Yokohama says: Large reinforcements
of japanese troops have gone to Korea.
Wagers are being made in Toxic that the
japanese army will occupy Pekiu, the
capital of China, or Mukden, the capital
of the province of Leao Tong, Macnoorla,
on Nov. 81
A dispatch TO the Standard from Ber-
lin says news has been received there
that Prince Using, the head of the foreign
Office at Pekin, has induced the emperor to
order that henceforth no Chinese viceroy
shall NEEDLE with Chinese affairs.
This order affects Lii Hung Chang and
the Viceroys of Maxim, Canton, Mancuria
and Kashgara. The Emperor of China
has received letters from Korean noble
men and generals assuring his majesty of
their fidelity in spite of the King of Ko-
rea's declaration of independence.
SCOTCH MISSIONARY MURDERED.
San Francisco, Sept l6.-News is at
hand per steamship Oceanic of the mur-
der of a Scotch missionary named Rev.
James Wylie. New Chwang correspOn-
dent of the North China Daily News,
writing under date of Aug. 20, says: "On
Aug. 10, at Liaoyang, fifty miles above
this port, soldiers en- route tor Korea
from Tien Tsin attacked Rev. Wylie,
a member of the Scotch Presbyterian
mission, with knives and sticks. After
cutting him about the head and face and
beating him with sticks, they left him
lying Oh the ground in the public road
way, where his colleagues found him un-
conscious and bleeding from his wounds.
His lower jaw was broken in two places
and he had several\ wounds about the
head and face. These wounds, however,
were not so serious as the injuries to the
brain caused by blows or kicks. He
died at 6 O'Clock on the morning of
Il.
unprovoked. The higher native authori-
ties, it is said, are acting energetically in
the matter. The local magistrate de-
manded from the officer in charge of the
regiment the surrender of the guilty
soldiers, but this was refused, and one is
not surprised, for if the officer had dared
to comply with any such demand, he
would probably have been the next vic
tim. There is rumor that this officer is
to lose his head.
On Aug. 21 the following from Chefoo
was received at Yokohama:
Two German fathers, belonging to the
Catholic mission at Keneng- Chow in
Southern Shantung, have been seized and
held to ransom by bandits whom the
authorities are unable to capture.
CENsORs APPOINTED OVER THE vICERoY.
The Oceanic brings the following Chi
nese advices TO Aug. 2l and Japanese ad-
vices to Sept. 2:
Vceroy Ii Hung Chang is universally
condemned in government circles for too
lightly believing Yuan Sic kai's misrep-
resentations and causing the war. AS he
is now too old to satisfactorily
perform his duties in diplomatic and
strategic affairs, the Pekin government
has since June or July appointed two
high officials, ing Tung Ho, and Ii Hung
Tsan, as censors over him. The men at
first only watched his actions, but now
1. E.,
they show a disposition to interfere in all
his movements.
ing TunR Ho has long been known as
the Viceroy's enemy, and as an instance
Of this animosity it is cited that when,
with Ii Hung Chang's approval, the Tien
Isin Chow railway Construction was
ordered by the emperor, it
was at once annulled through Ung's
opposition. From this may be inferred
the great influence exercised by him and
his hostility to the viceroy. That the
Pekin government, knowing the ami
mostly existing between the two,
should appoint ing the others
censor, augurs ill, it is said,
Tor Ii Hung Chang. The latter is said to
be totally different from his former self
and his most trusted lieutenant's fear for
MS future. Chang Che Wan, the minis
Yer of war; arrived on Aug Is at Tien
Ism as military inspector, and immedl-
ooteIy called on Ii hung CudnR, CuduB
Che Wan is Chang Che Tong's elder
brother, and is member of the
commission recently appointed for the
impeachment of the yiceroY. IL is not
known what his actual duties are as mil
itary inspector, but it is believed he will
examine into the strategic measures hith-
erto taken by Ii Hung Chang and his
omcers and make them the first step to-
wards impeachment. If the Pekin gov
ernment becomes hostile to Ii Hung
Chang, his place will, IL is re-
ported, be taken by Chang Chewan.
ii Hung Chang has repeatedly called
upon Lui Ming Chuen, governor of
formosa, 10 take charge Of the Chinese
troops in Korea, but he always declined
the honor Lui Yung Flu has repeatedly
declined, and the viceroy, not having any
Competent person TO command the forces,
Then decided not to have any commander
ln-chief of the forces. He divided the
troops into three divisions, each OF
which had commander OF its
own, and these commanders are 10
consult each other in the movements Of
their respective bodies. From this want
OF order and concerted action in the army
may be inferred as causes Of the recent
Chinese disasters, though, says the Asaht,
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