The daily morning journal and courier., 1894-07-30
RESERVES ARE SUMMONED.
.fP1S WILL PRESS THEM IN SER o VICE IS IRMY AND NAVY.

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 (nese Residents Are Fleeing From Japan To Large Numbers-China's Recent Nego- Nions Mere subterfuge-A Transport Ak With All on Board.
 Yokohoma, July 29.-The army and navy reserves have been summoned into service. Chinese residents of Japan are fleeing in large numbers. Reliable news has reached Tokio that the main body of Chinese troops crossed the northwestern frontier of Corea on July 25. In official circles everybody is con vinced that China's recent negotiations were a mere sugterfuge to gain time and concentrate her forces with a view of combining with the Coreans for an attack. It Is reported that the Japanese ships have been fired on again from the shore.
 Shanghai. July 2s--The British cruiser Purpoise sailed from Chee Foo to-day to protect British interests in Corea.
 
 quested the king. before his capture. to demand the withdrawal of Chinese troops from Corea. He refused, and thereupon the Japanese troops advanc- ed upon Seoul. After breif encounter they routed the Coreans and occupied the royal palace. The king appealed to the representatives Of European powers to intervene, but in vain.
 Yokohama, July 29.-The following official statement of the recent engage ment between the Chinese and Japanese warships has been issued by the Japa- nese government:
 'In consequence of severe provoca- tion three ships of the Japanese squad- ron were compelled to engage the. Chinese fleet of Fontao or Round Island They captured the Chinese war ship Tsao Kian and sunk Chinese transport with soldiers on board. Unfortunately one of the largest Chinese ironclads of the northern feet, the Chen-Yuen, escaped to China and the Chinese tor pedo cruiser Huans Tie escaped to Fu- san, in Corea. The three Japanese war ships engaged were the Akitsushima, the Takaohiho and the HiYei. They escaped entirely without injury"
 London, July 29.-The Central News has this dispatch from Shanghai:
 The Chinese warship Tso-Khan, which was captured by Japanese war ship off the coast of Round Island. is a vessel of an absolute model and was equipped poorly for fighting. Although completely outmatched by the Japanese cruiser the troopship offered some re sistance and lost fully hundred men, killed and wounded, before she yielded. She was entirely disabled when the Japanese boarded her. The truopship Kow-Shung tried to get away as soon as the Japanese warships began their attack, and made only a weak running fight The Japanese guns swept her deck and carried off the Chinese sol diers by the score. The latest estimate of the number aboard her is 1,700. Only forty survived the laundering of the ship. They say that all her officers were killed before she went down.
 The announcement that the rest of the Chinese transports arrived safe ly at Corea and landed their men is confirmed. On the 27th the Jap- anese fusiladed heavily those who had landed on the 26th at Yechan. The Japanese officers hoped thus to prevent the junction of the Chinese with the Coreans near Seoul. Whether they ac- complished their object is not known.
 No news of the hostilities can be ob- 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 Taku, the rem dezvous from which the regiments are embarking for Corea. The work of pre- pairing harbor defences here advances rapidly. Torpedoes are being laid in the North channel. Great quantities of amu- milton have been purchased by the gov ernment, and are being collected at the ports for shipment. The exportation of rice and grain has been prohibited. Trade is paralyzed. The coasting steam CTS and small crafs are afraid to leave the harbor. While everything looks and sounds like war, Chinese officials con. tinue to maintain that war has not been declared.
 The Central News says that in off, cial circles here there is strong feel ing in favor of mediation on the part of the United States, although few be- lieve that Japan and China would ac- cept arbitration unleAs under consider :. H,1a -sf