The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1894-09-24

ing of His Ship.
Victoria, B. c., Sept. 23.-The follow
ing has been received per Northern Pa
cific steamer Victoria from the special
correspondent of the Associated Press:
Yokohama. Sept. S.-The governor of
Canton has published a decree forbid
ding all people under his authority to
purchase or use goods of Japanese
manufacture.
An instruction has broken out at
Changshan, in the Shantung province,
sufficiently formidable to beat back the
detachment of troops sent from Wei
Hal Wei to queI the disturbance. There
is no evidence that the outbreak has
any political significance, though hints
to that effect appear in the Chinese
newspapers. The general distress in
the neighborhood and the apprehensions
of famine sufficiently account for popu-
lar disorders in more that one locality.
Rice supply Short.
Fears are expressed in the north Of
China that the supply Of rice will be
insufficient, not only for the people at
large, buI even for the demands OF the
from the southern rice-growing dis
tricts is blocked above Chin-kiang and
doubts have arisen as to the practical
Utility of transporting grain by sea. BY
X a singular error of judgment the Picking
government has included rice in the list
OF contraband articles, circumstance
which would be turned heavily to their
disadvantage if European ships had not
since received an order that the grain
shipped in neutral vessels must not be
. considered contraband.
Even under this ruling, the difficulty
of securing ships for the service is
great. and the conveyance of food to
the Chinese troops in Corea across the
gulf OF Pechili, is completely cut off by
the Japanese cruisers. Thus Tar, now
ever, the Chinese forces have subsisted
mainly upin the products OF the re-
gions they occupied. In the middle of
August, it was admitted by officials in
Picking that the northern granaries
contained only enough to meet the or
binary requirements of six weeks.
Mich as q Diplomat.
The Chinese imperial family has been
persuaded that the rout of the army at
Asan was a brilliant victory and Mich.
who figured in the preliminary fight at
Song Nwan, has received 2 present of
$4,000 taels direct from the sovereign,
and General Yeh, who was the chief in
command, has been placed in full con-
ton to the rank of field marshal and
has been honored by a special decree
IN which the emperor eulogizes him in
these words:
when General Yeh vanquished the
foe at Asan, the empress manifested
her favor by bestowing upon him 20, 600
Haels. Now he memorialiZes us that he
left Asan with 1000 men, fighting his
/ way through the japanese army, of
N~hom ne slaughtered 1900, losing only
\ 4 800 of his own followers. We hereby
III proclaim Xell's bravery and the Valor
of those who served under him. Let
him send us list of all his officers,
that we may forthwith promote them;
and also a list Of his killed, that we
NAV confer bOuntieS on their families"
Supplemental to the above, an edict
has been published, dated August 26,
consequent upon the latest dispatches
received by the emperor from General
Yeh That officer has at last found it
expedient to inform his sovereign that
after the battle at Asan, which he still
claims as a victory. he was surrounded
bN such Overwhelming numbers OF Chi
n9se that after fighting desperately for
six hours and infiicting frightfui
a Slaughter upon the enemy, he was COM
VI PEELED to retreat ana carry the remains
y of. his army TO a new rendezvous at
Ping Yang.
BeEs to BE Censured.
He humbly begs that he be severely
censured for his failure to destroy the
Japanese forces; but the emperor pro-
claims that, since he was able to eS-
cape, though hemmed in on all sides by
an army several times larger than his
own, and to inflict heavier loss than
he himself suffered, therefore his merit
is sufficient to compensate for any ina
bility on his part and his request for
censure IS graciously refused.
But the announcement comes from
"a al
lieveG from the chief command in Co
Tea. recently conferred on him, and is
replaced by an officer of superior rank.
TIE river approach to Ming Pc has
been blocked by driving piles to OBJ
struct the channel, leaving only a mar
row space f0T junks to pass through.
To close this space in case the Japan
csc should appear, barges loaded with
y stones are ready for sinking. Tele-
$rams announce that in consequence of
the continued refusal of the governor
of Shanghai to allow that city the priv
ileges' OF a neutral port remOnstrance
was sent early in September by the
foreign consuls. As no satisfactory an
swer was returned, the following joint
resolution was drafted and forwarded
to the Chinese authorities:
1.-THE acton of the Taotai of Shang-
hal is most unfair to a neutral port,
and if he continues 10 act in such a
violent manner troops will be landed
from the British, French and American
1nen-of-war for the protection of the
inhabitants of the settlement"
Missionaries Murdered.
~ ,wo european missionaries have been
<lrdered by Chinese soldiers. One a
y Frenchman named 5ozeau, who had a
large native following in the Corean
town of Hong Ju, is said to have in
Cured the displeasure of General Yeh,
on that Marrior's retreat from Asan,
and to have been beheaded under the
form of a military trial on imaginary
charges The other Scotchman,
named James Wylie. was wantonly set
upon in Siae Yang and beaten so bru-
tally that he died in a few hours.
Corean adventurers are taking ad-
vantage of the present disorders to en-
gage in piracy on q small scale. With
ia the past fortnight several fishing
boats have been seized at different
points off the Corean coast, their valu-
i ables stolen and crews barbarously
n nlaitreated
~ Warning has been sent from Shanghai
that an attempt will be made to dis