The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1894-08-28
CHINO-JAPANESE WAR
CHANGES IN OFFICERS OF THE
CHINESE ARMY AND NAVY.
Treaty Between Japan and Great
Britain M~odified-The Yachts Wig
liant and Britannia

LONDON. Aug. ga dispatch from
Shanghai says that Ii Yula, the military
governor OF the province of Shing King
has been appointed High commissions and
Governor-general of the whole northern
district to the Corean frontier Ii Yula
has been vested with the supreme military
command of the Chinese forces in Corea-
He will proceed TO that country without
delay. The Chinese northern fleet has ar
rived safely at Wei-Hai-Wei from Port
Arthur. Captain Won Hannekin, who was
formerly attached TO Ii Hung Chang's
staff, and was on the Chinese transport
Kow Shing when she was sunk by the
japanese, has been appointed to assist Adj
miral Tin in the command of the Pei
Yang fleet.
A dispatch from Yokohama says: The
war feeling is growing more intense every
day, and there is a great popular demand
for transfer of the warlike operations from
Corea to China. 1t is suggested that Japan
should unite all her available troops and
march upon Pekin Immediately. The COM
mercial treaty between Great Britain and
Japan was ratified on Saturday last.
Advices from Tein-Tsin report that the
German fathers Of the Catholic Mission Of
Ming Chou, province OF Shang Tung, who
were captured by bandits, and whose re-
lease was announced on Saturday last, only
secured their liberty, it now appears,
through the pressure brought to bear on
the officials at Pekin by the German min
lister and after the payment of a ransom OF
1900 marks.
in which the writer declares that the Jap
aneSe planned an invasion of Corea three
years ago. The plan of operations was Sc
cretly matured in the minutest detail. To-
biographical and military maps OF the whole
of Corea were prepared, showing every
road, river and ford, with the depth and
toon trains were made and are now waiting
at the government stores to be brought
over. EVERY mlhtary preparation was rn 1
to complete the conquest last year. The
Japanese minister at Pekin, a quiet and
able statesman, was shifted to the interior
court at Seoul, and resides there six months.
This anomalous move was significant
enough to have drawn more attention from
the interested powers. Oetori, the Japanese
minister at Seoul. was not idle. His bust
formation. and TO work secretly with
the powerful Japanese party in Corea. He
Character with various ofnciaIs who are
now taking part in the military operations.
The Japanese descent once announced was
to have been executed with phenomenal
r%aDidity. The various pretenses by which
Oetcrl contrived 10 deceive the Chinese
meat and the foreign representatives., are
no- seen 70 have been ruses to evade op-
position ana 10 ala the landlng OF troops.
After detailing the genesis of the war the
correspondent declares that the Corean adj
ministration is a ceSspoOl Of corruption,
from the King to the meanest official. Ex-
tortion is the law. The reform of such a
government would only NINA the SYM
pathy Of the civilized world. but Japan de-
sireS not it's reform but its subjugation.
Practical politicians will easily see through
her sudden zeal. Neither Japan nor China
ever really m any reforms in
| Corea: but, broadly speaking, China is
Corea's hereditary friend, while Japan is
her hereditary foe.