New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1894-12-05
JAPAN NOT SATISFIED.
WAS rEMPORIZING POLICY SHARPLY
REBUKED.

res MADE THROUGH A REGULARLY AC-
onrn,rEp Observation-Disclosures VA
x.aArA ON THE SICK LIsT-CoLoNEL
Won HANNEKEN RAISING A CHIN
EsE ARMY 100000 STRONG.
-.S,o Dec 4-Japan has informed China that
.,r,her peace proposals will be considered un-
w rade by regularly accredited Ambassador
'' . the Chinese Court. At the same time Japan
"o" China that it is not Japan. but China.
~, Is suing for peace. Japan is dissatisfied
"',s china's temporzing policy. and asserts that
-. seeking concessions in advance of formal
ference looking to a settlement
,,.don. Dec A dispatch to the Central
-, from Toxic says report to which much
l.nce is given Is current there to the effect
~, Field. Marshal Yamagata. commander Of the
,.,.nese Army is so seriously indsposed that II
50. beeu decided to be necessary for him TO go
..,or the sick list. and one Of the court chamber
,.,,. has started for the front with message
.-,r, the Emperor Lieutenant-General Nodzu. the
ascatch also says, has been promoted to be
..r.ral and will at once assume command of the
rsr.t Japanese army. Captain Miura has been
.nnonted to the command of the cruiser Yamo-
tro and the former harbor-master at Sa-Sa-Bo
o.. haan made Governor of Port Arthur.
80" Central News dispatch from Che-Foo says
shat commissioner Dietering. who returned on
Sunday from Japan. repeated IN an ih.e'View , ,o W.
Su,D Gun ,bs statements he made on Monday that ne
s empowered TO negotiate for peace win
Tsnsn in the name of the Chinese Board OF
Sorsgn Affairs. and that he was recalled because
the nerotations for peace had passed INTO ths
Sands OF the American Ministers to Japan ana
China. 49,. Co,ora, Won
usnneken the Comma nder-in-Chief of the chi
&c soldiers.
Ncered entirely by Europeans, mostly Germans,
Some of these officers have already arrived ana
others are on the way to China
Ssvsn thousand soldiers have been ordered 10
.snsorce Tung- Chow. fifty miles west or Cne-
rno and are being supplied from Wei-Hai-Wei:
The Central News correspondent In Shanghal
ssys that the British steamer Guy Manherihg Is
,.sding there from Hamburg war material val
ned at fl15.OOO
vashington Dec 4.-The special cable dis
Match 10 the United Press from Toxic. giving the
cresent status Of the peace negotiations between
China and Japan SHOWN to well-iniormeu
d,nIon,ats here They regard II as clearly SHOW
hg that there was no truth in the so-called semi
oacial announcement. purporting 10 nave come
nom Yokohama, that Japan was WILING 10 az
cept indemnity OF 4oOooooVo yen anu .'is
sion OF the territory now occupied by her FORCES
AZ condition for termin ating the war without
further delay. and tlat the demands were 10 pe
Increased IL hostties were prolonged.
Statements similar 10 tnese nav oPp'a. 49,,
Ahe Japanese newspapers tor some t,ne past ou'
thev are given merely as the opinions OF the
Tr;iers as 10 what Japan should insist upon. the
authentic news now at hand shows that the ne
rotations have gone no further than an mss
tence by japan upon the condition that the Chl-
nese Government shall send an Ambassador 10
TOXIC 10 make overtures. This information Is
credited by the officials Of the japanese Legation
here who have for some time been OF the opinion
Thai the appointment Of Chinese Ambassador
TO sue for peace would be the first move IN that
direction which would be acceptable to the Jap
anese Government and people As the case now
stands China appears TO be sparring for time be-
fore committing herself to any conditions looking
10 a cessation Of hostilities. but Japan holds TO
her first proposition that nothing snail pc done
unt,, a Chinese Ambassador comes in person to
Tokio. In the mean time Moukden. and posi-
Siy Peking also may fall into the hands OF the
Notorious japanese armies.