The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-11-02
TAKINGPOR1A ARTHUR
A Second Fort Said to Be 0ccu-
pied by Japs.
BRIDGES ACROSS THE YALu.
Japanese Pouring Into Manchuria-Hcw
the japanese Emperor L,ves
ae Hiroschima.


reported rs having taken q second fort at
Port Arthur. The general attack is ex-
pected tomorrox.
foo. The English fleet, including more
than. twenty warships, Is mooiazing at
Shanghai
A famous rebel chief captured and ex-
ecuted at Wuchang, while actively organ
izing y rebellion. confessed the names of
his accomplices. which include the pro-
vlncial judge OF Hupey.
TIEsTslS, Nov. The Japanese have
placed three bridges across the Yalu river.
and 1900 ia anese soldiers are reported
TO be in China
Gems. Web and Yeh. who were recently
disgraced for cowardice at Pingyang, have
arrived at Tientsin, but are aisaid TO pro-
coed to Peklng because of the anger of the
emperor.
CHEKFoo, Nov. The Chinese fleet left
Weihaiwei on October "a. and an engage
ment Is expected At any time. There are
only four foreigners among the officers
and men of the Chinese heet.
Admiral Fremantle. commanding the
British feet, has returned from
Tientsin, where he paid visit
TO Ii Hung Chang. The vice.
roy gravely offered to buy the Centurian
and three other warships of the British
squadron. When the admiral explained
that the sale of the vessels would be inn
possible. the viceroy persisted in kis offer.
The Chinese imagine that Admiral Free
mantle is holding of for higher price.
SHANGHAI, Nov. 1.-Japanese warships
~ich.af eff al SunJsu M
the Chinese feet went out in pursuit. Not
finding the enemy. the Chinese fleet re-
turned and LETT Weihaiwei again Wednes-
day, their destination being unknown.
The only foreigners with the deet are two
engineers and two gunners.
Small bodies of Chinese have attacked
several Russian frontier towns, and in one
they seized q quantity of arms and ANN u
milton. In another case the Chinese were
repulsed with loss Of sixty mon.
TACOMA, Nov. Lit was learned today
that Deputy Collector Dorsey re-
ceived a telegram ordering him to allow
the lead which arrived her en- route for
Yokohama via the steamship Ta-
coma to be loaded, not more
than half an hour after the
ship had left port. The ship could
not be readily recalled then, ana if
she had returned her hold was filled
with other cargo, consequently most
Of the lead Is piled up in
the Ocean dock warehouse aud
the rest of it is standing in cars.
The telegram from the treasury depart
ment orders that hereafter no freight con-
signed to the Orient shall be stopped
unless the customs officers are certain il
is contraband of war. The lead was con-
signed to the American Trading Company,
of Yokohama.
WASHINGTON CRY. Nov. The Japan
war news received at the legation gives
Il aphic descriptions of the emperor's
headquarters at Hiroshima. and of the
enthusiasm with which the war prepare
tons are made. The imperial headquar.
tiers are I'm an old wooden building. two
stories high, formerly used as en- army
barracks. The rooms are small and scant-
lily furnished. The emperor occupies the
upper floor, while the lower story is used
by the council of war. The emperor rises
at 6 O'Clock. and does not retire till IL. all
the time wearing military costume. lie
personally directs all that goes on. and has
proved to be an indefatigabls worker. All
the bhffackS anu quarters near py are iuu
of soldiers. There is a constant rattle
and clank of cannon, horses, guns and
sabers. The streets are lined with flags
and lanterns. The soldiers, rs they move
on, are chesred by enthusiastic crowds.
The spirit of humbling China TO the
dust is everywhere manifest, and the Jap
anese without exception regard the result
as beyond the slightest doubt. The unan-
Unity of the war feeling Is shown by the
printed declaration of the Vsishinto
party. which hitherto resisted the govern
niens IL announces the chastisement of
China as the first and paramount duty of
Japan. II gives it's support TO all war
measures, and says IL will resist any
proposition for peace until China is
humblsd aud the object Of the war at
tanned.
NEW YORK. Nov. "A special to the
World from Tokyo, Japan. saws: Great
Britain secretly asked the king of Korea
to cede Port Hamilton in exchange for
the assistanra of the Erisish eoyernmsnt