The morning call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1878-1895, 1894-09-23

itself in reserve for the work yet 10 come
Japan would not shIrk a marine engage
meDt, but she does not invite one at the
present moment.
The only warlke movements are in the
nature of reconn distances and skirmishes
in the valley of the Tai Tong River and
these are on an insignificant scale.
The Japanese Parliamentary election
held on September passed off with little
excitement, though many voters in the
large cities thought it rudent to provide
themselves with pcl,cs escort to the polls.
Hitherto elections nave been accompanied
by a great agitation, and often by rloting
at the polls, but on this occasion the alb
sorbing interest in the war overcame the
usual tendency to disorder The relative
strength of the parties in the new House
of Representatives is not fully ascer-
tanned. The proportions will probably
not differ largely from those In the last
Diet, but 1t is believed that The vehement
opposition heretofore manifested toward
the Government Will be held 10 check. in
order that the conduct of the war may not
be embarrassed. Dissolution has been the
fate of almost every previous Parliament,
owing TO the irreconcilable conflicts be-
tween the administration and the majority
in opposition; but the present Assembly,
it is predicted, will proceed harmoniously
to its end and lend cordial support to all
measures for the prosecution OF kostilities.
BY an arrangement between Japan
and England, supplementary to the new
treaty, the former Government proposed
that the new judicial codes of the empire
shall be put into actual and full operation
before the treaty is made practically effec-
tive. Ii is also agreed that the provisions
OF the second article in the treaty, relat-
ing to military service, shall not apply to
the British colonies
1he Japanese prize courts were opened
September IA, the highest at Toxic. under
the presidency of Vlscount Kawase. late
Minister to England, and the second at
SasehO, the naval station near Nagasaki.
under the presidency of Judge Hitnmi.
chief of the Nagasaki Court of Appeal
The case of two alleged japanese spies.
who have been given up by the United
States Consul = General at Shanghai In
almost certain death at the hands of the
Chinese, attracts much attention and
causes no little Ill feeling among Ameri-
cans and Europeans in China. Thes.
young men had for some time been pursu-
ing their studies at Shanghai and like the
majority of the Japanese residents. were
In the habit of wearing the Chinese dress.
With the idea of serving their country in
some indefinite wav, they undertook at the
outbreak Of the war to collect information
which they thought would be valuable TO
their Government. What they gathered
has not been made public, but it is charged
that they made drawings of the Chinese
defenses. in consequence of which they
were arrested by native officers In the
French quarter of the st ttlement.
When the japanese consuIates In China
we've closed 1t was arranged that all Japa-
nese remainin in the country should look
to the local representatives. of the United
States for such advice and aid as could be
unofficially voucasafed. Explanations
were everywhere given that no absolute
protection could be extended, but in the
hope that something might be done to
rescue those foolhardy Young meu from
their psrilous position they were handed
over by the French Consul to the AmeTi-
can C0nsul-Genersl in spite of the protests
and demands of the Chinese Governor,
who Insisted upon their Immediate sur
render.
MIR. birmingham, the American Consul