Richmond dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1884-1903, 1894-10-02
They Meet With No Resistance In
Doing So.
CHINESE DECENTRALIZATION.
Friction Between Kung and IL Hung Chang
Corruption in Army Circies-Euro-
peans Seek Protection.

eign board, and Ii Hung Chang. the
| dispatch says, is Inevitable. The Viceroy
| Is certain to be hampered in his conduct
of operations against the japanese. The
| Imperial Council is completely disorganiz-
| ed, and the corruption which has prevailed
in the Commssary Department for years
! has left the troops with no suitable
clothing and scanty supply OF food.
Cannons rifles. and other munitions of
war, which from time to time were al
| legged TO have been bought and paid for,
cannot now be found. and presumably the
money said to have been expended Tor
them was appropriated by the onciaiS
into whose hands II was entrusted.
The immense camp between Tien-Tsin
and Taku is filled with raw levies Oh
troops. who are without arms and In
many cases without sufficient clothing 10
cover them.
DISORDER RAMPANT.
Disorder in the camp is rampant, there
being not the slightest degree OF disci-
pllne. Executions take place daily, the
merest infraction OF rule or law Delhs
punishable by the loss of the Offenders )
head.
FuroDean residents OF China are taking
refuge in the treaty ports under the pro-
lection of the warshps of their respec-
tive countries. Large numbers OF CHl-
rese merchants are also seeking safety
in flight. Their goods are being seized,
and in many cases men OF large means
have been plundered OF every vestige or
property they possessed, and beaten ana
otherwise maltreated If they protested.
Most Of these have also made their way
TO the treaty ports.
The troops stationed at canton nave
been ordered to Formosa.
The Pall-Mall Gazette publishes dis
match from Shanghai stating that the
japanese troops are reported TO be ra-
pidly nearing Moukden.
JAPANESE OFF CHEE-FOO.
LONDON, October 1.-The Pall-Mall Ca
zette prints a Chee-Foo dispatch, dated
to-day. which says: Japanese cruisers
ar, sighted here daily. The nature Of the
operations being carried on by these ves-
sells is not known. An invasion Is hourly
expected"
The dispatch also says n reported up
rising has occurred in the province oil
Shan-kung.
4 QUASI COUP.
LONDON, October 1.-The Central News
correspondent at Shanghai says the ap-
pointment of Prince Kung. the Emperor 5
uncle. and the B1etlucUL ol Ait CA'i-A'
Board OF Admiralty to act as co-directors
with Ii Hung Chang in the conduct OF
Chinese affairs is looked upon as par
taking Of the nature of coup detat'
No Chinese soldiers are now in Korea,
all being concentrated in the vicinity OF
Moudken. Chinese transports have gone
to Hankow for troops
II is reported that Tarotai Sheng has
been found to be implicated in furnishing
Information regarding Chinese movements
10 the japanese authorities
DEFENCE OF PEKING.
LONDON. October 1.-The ST. James Ca
zette prints dispatch from Shanghal 10 d
news agency here stating that the return 10
power of the Emperor's uncle, Prince
Kung who has been IN disgrace many
years. includes the privilege OF at all times
entering the Imperial palace.
Sung Kwei, the EmperOrs father-ln-
law, has started for Shan-Hai-kwan, on
the Gulf Of Liao-Tong. at the head OF 0'VvO
picked Manchuran soldiers. The city OF
Shan-Hai-Kwan is of great strategic I'M
portance, being the point al whlch the
hiGh-roal from the coast TO feklhs pe-
gins. Sung Kwei, who Is chlet III COM
mand. il making preparations 10 arrest
the landing in force Of the enemy. Prepa-
rations for the better defence Of Peking
are also being energetically pushed. IL IS
eXpected that the garrison there VIII De
reinforced by 20,oc0 Kashgars. twenty
five thousand troops. drafted from mum,
her of provinces. who have been drilled
by foreign officers. are being massed AT
Tung- Chow, few miles southeast OF
Pekng. These troops are under the coih-
mand Of General lAu.
Foreign residents Of Peking are SUD
iected to constant insults by natives, ana
a number of them have been assaulted on
the. streets. Among the persons VINO nave
thus been maltreated are several BIltish
subjects. including the Interpreter Oh the
British Legation and Or. Dudgeon.
TERRIBLE EXECUTION
LONDON. October IA British naval
officer attached to the Chinese naval
squadron which waS engaged In the flght
off the mouth OF the Yalu river. has writ
ten a letter TO the Graphic. which Is pup
llshed in that paper to-day. In ms let
ter the writer gives additional details or
the fighting and says:
.'On board the warship Chen-Iuen the
fighting was awful. The decks and the
srace around the guns were strewn with
human fragments, and three or hVe men
working a four-ton gun were blown mp
bv n shell from the japanese warship
Nanaiwa. a fourth gunner was shot
while trying 10 escape from the turret.
The fifth stuck to his post. This man
fred three rounds at the Nanaiwa, one
shell entering the engine-room OF the
japanese ship. and another smashing her
forebridge. The Nanaiwa then hauled of.
The Chinese Admiral rewarded the sur
vivng gunner with a present Of leo taels.
A shell glanced from the steel deck or
the Chen-Yuen and went through her
tower, shattering everything therein.
Urh I'm the Of sneak
ing through the tube leading to the en-
gine-room, was blown into atoms. and his
head was left hanging 10 the pipe. Huge
fragments of armor and the teak back
Ing thereof were carried inboard by the
shot crushing n large number of sailors
into n shapeless mass. European en-
ginecr who was in the act OF cropping
about in an endeavor TO repair steam
nine. was drenched from head 10 foot
with the blood or an assistant. who was
dismembered by his side by shot from
the enemy's ship. The Chen-Yuen ar
rived at Wei-Hai-Wei the day after the
fight in the same condition in which she
left the battle. No attempt had been
made to wash the blood from her or TO
remove the corpses which strewed her
decks"
The writer expresses the opinion that
II the European rulers could have seen
the decks of the Chen-Yu they would
have foresworn war henceforth and for
ever.
JAPANESE ARMY LANDED.
LONDON. October 1.-The Times will
print a dispatch from Shanghai to-mor-
row stating that 5000 Japanese troops
have been landed on the Shan-Tung coast
between the Yellow river and Tien-Tsin.
A large deputation of Chinese residents
OF Tien-Tsin. headed by the magistrate
of that place, have publicly thanked Colo
mel Won Hannecken for his services in the
battle at Yalu.
Imprisoned for Duclfing.
BERLIN, October i.-Baron Kiderlin-
Wachter the recently-appointed Prusslau
representative at Hamburg. and Herr
Polstorff. editor OF the Klarderdatsch.