The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1894-10-08
Naval Officers Turn Their Ships
From the Enemy.
SOLDIERS THROW THEIR ARMS AWAY.
A Commander to be Beheaded for Cow
ardice and Yiceroy IL Hung Chang to
Take the Field Against the Japanese
Empty War Chests and no Cash.

NEW YORK, Sept. 29.-The Herald
has the following from Shanghai: The
Chinese army at We-ju, on the Yalu
river, which is opposing the advance of
the main Japanese army in Korea, has
mutined. The men are throwing away
their arms, because they have no am
munition, being cut off from their
fenses have completely collapsed and
are now only farce. There is panic
in Peking, and the very name of
japanese inspires terror everywhere.
China is perfectly helpless.
| VIENNA, Sept. 2S.-The Pollitische
Correspondence says the following in
formation has reached st. Petersburg
from China and attracts the serious
attention of the Government: In
tense excitement prevails in all the
| provinces of China, and the dissatis-
faction of the highest officials In the
empire has reached a point which in
dicates probable movement against
the reigning dynasty. The spirit ami
mating the regular army is satisfac-
| tory, but discipline has been much
| relaxed.
The irregular troops, upon which
| the Government must now rely, are
committing great and frequent ex-
| cesses everywhere, including the cap
| ital. The war chest is as empty as the
State exchequer, and the Government
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| ing the barest necessities for the troops
| in the field.
| LONDON, Sept. 2S.--A dispatch from
Shanghai says it is reported that the
japanese have succeeded in entering
| the Chinese province of Manchuria
and are advancing upon Moukden, the
capital.
1t is also said fighting has taken
place between the invaders and the
Chinese at a town between that city
| and the frontier. The engagement is
| said to have ended in a decisive vic
tory for the Japanese, who established
themselves in the position previously
occupied by the Chinese troops.
No details of the reported battle are
given, and the Chinese at Shanghai
discredit the report.
A dispatch to the Times from Yoko-
hama says: The destination of the
| second japanese army of 1000 men is
kept secret. The Japanese army in
Korea is rapidly advancing north
ward. No resistance to its progress is
| expected on this side of the Chinese
frontier. There is no truth in the
rumor of an armistice.
A dispatch from Shanghai, dated
Friday, says: 1t is believed the EN-
peror cOntemplates change of advis-
ers and the dismissal of all the man
darins and others who have been con-
cerned in the conduct of the war.
Affairs at Peking are tending toward
an imperial coup d'etat, involving the
overthrow of Ii Hung Chang and
other statesmen.
SHANGHAI, Sept. 29--It is reported
that the Emperor has granted Ii
Hung Chang's request to be allowed
to take the field in person, and that
Ii Hung Chang will make his head
quarters at Lu Tai, near Ksi Ping, the
present headquarters OF the provis-
ional ommander-in-chief of Chih
Ii.
1t is also reported that the Chinese
troops have evacuated Korea and are
now massed at Chiu Lies Chang,
thirty miles westward OF the Yalu
river
LONDON, Sept. ga dispatch from
Shanghai dated today, says: The
Chinese naval officers now at Port
Arthur and Tien-Tsin are squabbIing
among themselves as to the responsi-
bility of the terrible Chinese losses in
the naval battle off the Yalu. A
court of inquiry is sitting and has al
ready found Captain Tong of the war
ship Tsi- Yuen, guilty of cowardice
in the face of the enemy. He was
condemned to be beheaded, and it is
believed that other officers will lose
their heads.
n telegram from the Kung Taotai,
at Port Arthur, received by the COM
mandant at Weihaiwei, positively
accuses the commander of the Chen
Guen of taking flight with his vessel
before the battle at the first sight Of
the enemy'- smoke. Admiral Ting,
who remained at Port Arthur, has
telegraphed to Weihaiwei making
grave charges again. some OF his
officers. The admiral declares that
the Ping Guen, the Kwang Thing
and the Chen Nuen, together with
four torpedo boats, were up the Galu
river when the battle commenced.
There they remained until all the
fighting was over. They then sneaked
out and made for Port Arthur.
Two of these torpedo boat are said 60
be still missing.