The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1894-09-29
Lack of Transportation Facilities
May Cause a Famine.
IMPERIAL FAMILY HOODWINKED
Two European Missionaries Have Been
Brutality Murdered by the
Chinese Soldiers.

eFn Skeau1eT tCbDfid tAo
special correspondent of the Associated
Press:
YOKOHAMA, Sept. S.-The governor
of Canton has published decree for
/ bidding all people under his authority
to purchase or use goods of Japanese
, manufacture.
An instruction has broken out at |
Chang Shan, in the Shanghai prov
ince, sufficiently formidable TO beat |
back detachment of troops sent from
| Wei Hal Wei to uuell the disturbance. |
! There is no evidence that the outbreak
: has auy political significance, though |
/ hints to that effect appear in Chinese
J newspapers. The general distress in
| the neighborhood and the apprehen-
slons of famine sufficiently account for
popular disorders in more than one
locality.
Food Supplies Getting Low.
Fears are expressed in the north of
China that the supply of rice will be
insufficient, not only for the people at
large, but even for the demands of the
army and navy. The grand canal
route from the southern rice growing
districts is blocked above Chin Kiang
and doubts have arisen as to the prac-
ticability of transporting grain by sea.
By a singular error of judgment. the
Peking government has Included rice
in the list of contraband articles, cir
cumstance which would be turned
heavily 10 their advantage If European
ships had not since received an order
that grain shipped in neutral vessels
| must not be considered contraband.
Even under this ruling the difficulty
of securing ships for the service is
great and the conveyance of food to
Chinese troops in Corea is completely
} cut off by the Japanese cruisers. Thus
far. however, the Chinese forces have
} subsisted mainly upon the products OF
the regions that they occupied. In the
} middle of August it was admitted by
off sials in Peking that the northern
} granares contained only enough to
meet the ordinary requirements of six
} weeks.
! Imperial Family Hoodwinked.
! The Chinese imperial family has
: been persuaded that the rout of the
army at Asan was a brilliant victory
and Mich. who figured in the prelim-
mary fight at Song Nwan, has received
: a present of 80, 900 taels direct from the
sovereign, aud General Yeh, who was
! chief IN command, has been placed in
+ full control of the troops in Corea with
I promotion to the rank of field marshal
and has been honored by special de-
: cree in which the emperor eulogize;
] him in these words:
"When General Yeh vanquished the foe
at Asan, the empress manifested her favor
by bestowing upon him 20 900 taels. Now
he memorializes US that he left Asan with
LOCO men, fighting his way through the
. Japanese army, of whom he slaughtered
1000, losing only 500 OF his own followers
IS We hereby proclaim Yeh's bravery and the
h valor of those who served under him. Lei
= him send us list OF all his officers, that We
may forthwith promote themi also list o
70 his killed that We may confer bountles or
their families ,"
"a Supplemental to the above an edict
has been published, dated August 26
= consequent upon the latest dispatch
: received by the emperor from General
of Yeb. That officer has at last found il
d expedient to inform his sovereign tina
IS after the battle at Asau, which he still
d claims as victory, he was surrounded
e by such overwhelming numbers o
d japanese that after fighting desper-
ateIy for six hours and infiicting fright
"a full slaughter upon the enemy he wai
Or compelled co retreat and carry the re.
D. mains of his army to a new rendezvou!
II at Ping Yang. He humbly begs tina
n he be severely censured for his failure
O. TO destroy the Japanese forces, but TIN
emperor proclaims that since he wa
is able to escape, though hemmed in oil
= all sides by an army several times
" larger tlan his own, and to infiic
I. heavier loss than lie himself suffered
IS therefore "his merit is sufficient I,
Of mpensate for any inability on hi
a. part" and "his request for censure j
b graciously refused" But the an
ic noupcement also comes from Pekinl
~ that General Yeh has been relieved
from the chief command i'll Corea re
d Gently conferred upon him and is re
lie placed by an officer of superior rank.
lie Relative to BIocksdinG.
'e The river approach to Ming Pc ha
been blocked by driving piles to OF
o, struct the channel, leaving only nal
u row space tor the junks to pass through
g. To close this space in case the Japanes
g. should appear barges loaded wit
stones are ready for sinking.
re kilograms announce that in cons'
be ouence of the continued refusal of tn
IN governor of Shanghai to allow ths
city the privileges of neutral port
remonstTance was sent early in Sci
" TENDER by the foreign consuls. AS Il
,ta satisfactory answer was returned IL
n following joint resolution was drafte
" and for awarded 10 the Chinese author
ties:
w THE action of the Taotai of Shanghai
su' most unfair to a neutral port, and if he col
tinues to act in such Violent manner troo
will he landed from the British, French nj
nj American men-of- war for the protection