The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1894-08-30
WAR RUMORS DENIED
No Recent Battle Between
China and Japan.
ANOTHER UNCONFIRMED BATTLE

Ii Hung Chang, viceroy of China, Or
ders the Mobilization of the Chinese
Fleets in the Gulf of Pi Chi 1.-the
Opinion OF Corean.
LONDON, August 26.-The Central
News is authority for the statement that
officials of the japanese legation here
deny that there has been an engagement
recently either on land or on sea be-
tween the forces of Japan and China.
Officials declare also that the dispatch
to the Standard from Berlin, referring
to Count Ito's remarks concerning the
interests of Japan and Russia in the
completion of the Siberian railway, was
the invention of the Chinese embassy
in the German capital. Neither the
foreign Office nor the Chinese legation
has received any news of the battles
mentioned by the Times correspondent
this morning. At the legation the Off
Gals say that General Yen, who form
erly commanded at Asan, has joined his
force OF 1000 men to the Chinese north
ern army at Ping Yang. The success of
this movement, the Chinese say, proves
that the Japanese troops in Corea are
either weak or negligent.
NO NEWS OF AN ENGAGEMENT.
WASHINGTON, August 26.-The Japan
ese legation has received no news OF the
engagement between the Japanese and
Chinese forces reported from Shanghai
in the dispatches published this morn
ing. Officials at the legation express the
strongest confidence in the accuracy OF
the telegram received at the legation
Yesterday, announcing the finding OF the
British naval court of inquiry at Shang-
hal in the Kow Shung case was favor
able to Japan. The legation character
ICES as unqualifiedly Incorrect tie as
sertion that the commander of the
Naniwa ordered his men to fire upon the
survivors from the Kow Shung strug-
CLING in the water.
ANOTHER UNCONFIRMED BATTLE.
LONDON, August pa dispatch from
Shanghai to the Central News says the
Chinese papers contain report of
battle near Ping Yang, in which $4,000
men on each side were engaged. The
Chinese, the dispatch adds, claim they
defeated the Japanese forces. Reliable
confirmation of the report of the en-
gagement, however, is wanting.
LII Hung Chang has ordered the mo-
biliZation of the northern, southern and
central Chinese fleets in the Gulf of Pi
Chi Ii. The Chinese fleet is conveying
a number OF troop ships and coal ships
from Taku to Port Arthur.
The japanese mobiles subscribed $780,
0O0,000 as fund to be used in the pros
ecution of the war. This fund draws no
interest.
CoREAN's OPINION.
CHICAGO, August 26.-The acting Co
rean Minister to the United States, Ye
Sung 500, and Jang Bong Whan, the
Second Secretary OF the legation. arrived
i'll this city on their way to San Fran
cisco. Minister 500 was sick when he
arrived. Concerning the war between
China and Japan Jang Bong Whan said:
q do not think the war will last very
long. Japan has better drilled soldiers
than China, but the latter country has
greater resources and men. That is why
Japan is winning ali the victories now"
He refused to say anything regarding
the position of Corea in the war.
VERDICT OF THE COURT OF INQUIRY.
PARIS, August 26.-The Toxic CORE
spondent of the Journal des Debats tel
egraphs that the court of inquiry inves-
tigating at Shanghai the circumstances
of the sinking of the Chinese transport
kow Shung by the Japanese warship
Naniwa has rendered decision holding
that the action of the Japanese COM
nader in firing upon the transport was
justified, and therefore the Japanese
government will not be called upon to
make any compensation for the destruc-
ton of the vessel.
MINISTER DENBY's DEPARTURE.
EVANSVILLE, Ind, August 26.-It is
learned tonight that the time for the
departure of Colonel Charles DENLY,
United States Minister to China, has
been extended few days, but the most
persistent inquiry failed to develop the
exact time he is to leave San Francisco.
Colonel DENLY is now in Logansport,
and from there will 60 to Arizona to
visit his son. 1t is known that when he
leaves this country he will be conveyed
to China on government cruiser.
ALL PASSES HELD BY JAPANESE.
LONDON, August ga dispatch to
the Central News from Shanghai states
that advices received there from Che
mulpo are to the effect that some unim-
portant skirmishes have taken place on
the great road north of Pong San be-
tween the Chinese and Japanese forces.
The position of the Japanese troops is
unchanged, and all passes are strongly
held by the Japanese soldiers.
KING OF CoREA APPEALED TO JAPAN.
TOXIC, August 26.-It is officially an
nounced that June 80 the King of Corea
declared himself independent of China
and appealed to Japan to assist him in
driving the Chinese from Asan with the
assistance of the Corean troops. On the
same date Corea renounced all treaties
with China.
THE POLAR vOYAGERs.