The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1894-10-02
The Rotten Empire Seems About
to Tumble to Pieces.
CORRUPTION PASSES BELIEF.
Money to Buy Food and War Supplies
Stolen by the Officials.
ing Cnoyposed to Moukden. whsEce
the Railroad wnt Carry IL to Iien-
tain, Ninety Miles From the Capital.

NEW YosK, Oct IA shan zhai dispatch
says: The emperor of China win very
likely be dethroned IN favor of Prince
kunx. who will treat with the
Japanese. Ii Hung Chang has been
superseded in the supreme command
by Gen. Sang Tsing. of the province of
Human. Ii Hung Chang retires in dis
gust to Paetingfoo. Twenty thousand
Human soldiers are gathered around
shanghaikwa.
LONDON, Oct. LA dispatch sent from
Shanghai today states that the Chinese
war council continues 70 sit. The disor-
ganization is apparent. The corruption
in the eommissary surpasses belief. There
Is little for the troops Food Is scarce
and weapons and war munitions bought
and paid for can neither be found nor
traced. The Chinese camp between Tien-
tsln and Tsju is filled with raw levies, and
disorder Ii rampant although executions
are frequent.
SHANGHAI. Oct. Lit Is reported that
Taotai Shung. chief magistrate of the dis
trict, has left Tientsin, as Ii has been re-
ported that Shung was implicated with
others in furnishing information to the
japanese of the movements Of the Chinese
forces on land and sea. 1t is nov believed
that the fugitive taotai will be unable to
render any additional assistance to the
enemy. Taotai Shung is believed TO be
the person who notified the agents of the
Japanese of the kow Shing expedition,
which resulted in the sinking of that trans
port and the drowning of over 1000 Chi
nese soldiers. Later advices from Tien-
tsin say that nothing is actually known Of
the destination of the taotai at Tienrsin.
but it Is believed his Japanese friends
have succeeded in smuggling him to some
place OF safety from which he viii shortly
escape to Japanese territory. 1t is said
that the taotai is not the only Chinese off,
ciai implicated in furnishing important
war news to the Japanese
Official advices from Tokyo say that the
Japanese government has declared lead TO
be eontraband of war. The docks at Ma
gasaki, Japan. are full ofcruisers, warships
and other vessels undergoing repairs.
The japanese army, which has been
marching upon Moukden ever since the
battle of Pingyang, where the Chinese
were completely defeated. losing over I6,-
600 men, the majority of whom were taken
prisoners. recently occupied Heichouot,
on the frontier Of Manchuria. without op-
position.
LONDON. Oct. La dispatch from Che
foo to the Pail Hall Ga,stte this afternoon
says that Japanese cruisers are sighted
daily off that port. 1t is added that the
nature of the operations is unknown, but
the movements are regarded as tending TO
confirm the story of a japanese landing
northward of Chefoo. The British squad
ron in Northern Chinese waters is cruising
in the Gulf Of Pechili.
An insurrection is said to have broken
out in the province of Shantung. The re-
suit of the uprising or its nature is not
known.
TIKNTsIN, Oct. Private advices have
been received from Peking warning all for
eigners from proceeding to the capital.
The road and waterways from Lungchow %
Peking are alive with soldiers hostile to all
Europeans. Several BriAeh residents in
Peking have been assaulted, including Mrs.
Tourse. the interpreter of the British leya-
ton. DIR. Dudgeon and others are jour
neying south.
It's rumored that the British steamer
Irene, which arrived at Tientsin Septem-
Der Is from Shanghai, having on board
number of Maxim rapid firing guns and
ammunition for the Chinese. has infringed
the neutrality laws. Representatives of
the British government are said to be TAX
ing action in the matter.
LONDON, Oct 1.-The Times will pub
lish tomorrow a letter from Sir Hal
iiday Mccartney. councillor of the
Chinese embassy here. asking whether IL
is not strange that the startling kilograms
received in London respecting the Chinese
disaster at Pingyang are still without con-
firma;ion. He says the reas on Is that the
news agency which received the dispatches
has no correspondent at Seoul, and has
heen imposed upon. The Chinese at
Pingyang suffered defeat. not disaster.
The Chinese force. being short of proyis-
IONS, contemplated a retreat when the
city was invested. Their killed and
wounded numbered only 5000. Their re-
naming s.ooo commanded by a general.
falsely stated to have been captured by the
japanese. effected a retreat.