The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-24
DARE Nor AnANpoN coREA.
Idea of Member of the Chinese lie.
cation.

Idea of Il Member of the Chinese Lee
cation.
A dispatch from Berlin to the Times
states a member of the Chinese lega-
ton, in an interview, said China dare
NOT abandon Corea. even if the war
should last thirty years. Besides, he
added. the CoreanS are still hostile to
the japanese, as is proved by their re-
fusal TO concede the Japanese demand
that they cut off their long hair as
sign of submission. The Japanese, he
further said, have done everything TO
wound the feelings of the Cninese
Directly the Chinese minister mad lett
Toxic at the outbreak of hostilities,
the japanese destroyed the Chinese le-
CATION and Buddhist temple, besides
setting fire to and destroying Chinese
club houses and residences and muir
dering helpless Chinese in the streets.
Count Aohi scouts the idea OF any
cessation of the hostilities. In an inter
view, he fatty denied that the Chlnese
had been murdered or other property
destroyed in Toxic. On the other hand,
he said that the Chinese had insuited
the Japanese minister at Tien Tsin and
had massacred fifty harmless japanese
laborers who were working in the cam
phor fields in Corea. 1t was also I'M
true, he declared, that the japanese had
demanded that the Coreans cut thelr
hair. The king and the people OF Corea
have been friendly with the japanese
since the battle near Asan.
In conclusion, the count said the Jap
anese leaders would perhaps have
hard task to invade China, but they
were determined to persevere.
The Times this morning publishes
leading article, in which it says Japan
| has already effected enough to con-
vince intelligent men the world over
that henceforth they must reckon with
a new power in the far east. Ping
Yang and Yalu have opened the eyes
of all not wilfully Indifferent or blind,
that a new state has taken her rank
in the hierarchy of nations and that
her voice can not be ignored IN their
councils.
The Novoe Vrewaya, the Times adds,
! reminds us that Russia still bankers
for the possession Of a secure open har-
Dor on the Pacific. Such a possession
would be a great menace to both En-
gland and Japan, who are likely to be
found standing side by side on some
important points should the powers in
tervene in the present dispute.
In another article. discussing the war,
the Times calculates the Japanese will
certainly reach VIII from Ping Yang
at the end of this week and that they
will meet the Chinese troops that were
landed ON the Corean bank of the Yalu
river by Admiral Ting. 1t is not clear.
the Times adds, whether the Chinese
transports had time to disembark their
stores. At any rate, the condition of
the Chinese column must be precarious
and there seems nothing to prevent a
Japanese squadron from re-visiting
the mouth of the Yalu and destroying
any Chinese transports remaining
! there. Further, it would be easy for the
japanese to move troops by sea. from
Ping Yang to the Yalu and then shift
their base of operations further north,
thus supplying reinforcements to the
, column touching northward from Pye
This is almost certain to be done if an
advance into Manchuria is intended
With regard to an attack upon Muk-
don, the Times says the japanese can
not overlook the fact that apart from
its presumed sanctity, it is position OF
! little military value. 1t is not the short
est or best route to Pekin. If the naval
squadron permits the free use of the
/ Yalu river as a basis, it will equally al
| low far nearer point of disemba rka-
/ ton. Whether or not such defenses as
Mukden possess would prove formid-
able to the japanese artillery, the fight
ing power of the Chinese would show to
1.-THE best advantage in the defense of a
walled city. On the whole, difficulties
land uncertainties may still deter the
Japanese commander from embarking
! upon such an adventure. The pacifica-
! ton and administration of Corea would
m themselves absorb the energies of a
large military force during the winter
| With regard to the naval battle, the
damage inflicted must have been done
! in the days of the "seventy-fours." OF
ramming we hear nothing, and it is not
clear that torpedoes may play an effec.
tive part, while it is tolerably certain
the story of their detection by Chinese
nets is wholly mythical AS to the DO.
litical outcome of the struggle, the re.
lstrlcuons which have Sonverted Yoko-
hama into kind of Gibraltar cannot
be much longer maintained against the
aspirations of a powerful naval and
military. nation too long subjected tc
trammels. Unpleasant as the changed
conditions may seem. they must be &C.
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