The Daily bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Hawaii]) 1882-1895, 1894-10-15
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Revolution 10 ChIna-Coruptlon 10
ChiNSe Councils.
The ORIENTAL WAR.

The ORIENTAL WAR.
CHINESE EMPEROR LIKELY TO LOSE HIS
BILLET.
The New York Herald has a dis
patch from Shanghai saying the
Emperor Of China will very likely
be dethroned in fovor OF Prince
Kuug, who will treat with the Jap.
anese.
Ii Hung Chang, the illustrious
Viceroy who was lately lowered q
grade for not managing the war
with Japan 10 as lively manner as
he ought, has been superseded in
supreme command by General Sang
Using OF the province OF Human. 1t
Is rumored that Ii Hung Chang in
disgust has detected to the Jap
anese.
The Japanese army that used up
1900 Chinese at Ping Yang has
occupied Heichon, on the frontier
Of Manchuria, without opposition.
An insurrection is rumored to
have broken out in the province OF
Shan Tung, but its nature or object
IL not known.
The docks at Nagasaki, Japan, are
full OF cruisers and other war YES
sells repairing.
Japanese cruisers are sighted
daily OF Chez Foo, which supports
the report that Japanese are land.
ing northward OF that port.
A British squadron is cruising in
the Gulf Of Pechili.
The Japanese have occupied Wi
Ju without opposition.
TROUBLE IN CHINESE corHcrLs.
A despatch to the Pail Mall Ga,
zette says friction between Prince
kung, the Emperor's uncle, who ha.
been appointed to the presidency oil
the Tsung-Li-Yomen (China's Coun.
Gil Of Ministers charged with the con.
duct of foreign aifairs), is newt.
able. The Imperial Council is CON-
pletely disorgsnized. Great corrup.
..ion has been discovered in the
purchase Of war material. There is
also found to DO little food for the
troops.
PLACE ron PITCHED BATTLE.
Sung kwei, the Emperor's father
in-law, has started for Sham. Hal.
Kwau, on the gulf Of Liza Tong, at
the head Of 300 picked Manchuriau
soldiers, That place Is regarded a,
OF great strategic Importance. 1t II
the point nj which the high roat
from the coast to Peking begins.
FOREIGNERS IN DANGER.
Private advices have reached Tieu
tain from Peking warning all for
eigners to keep away from the capi
tai. The road aud waterways frol
Tung Chow TO Peking are alive wit
soldiers hostile to oil Europeans
Several British residents OF PekipI
have been assaulted, including Nj
Tours, interpreter OF the Britis
Legation, DIR. Dudgeon aud other
journeying south.
1t is rumored British representa-
tives are taking action on the land
ing Of munitions OF war for tn
Chinese at Tien-Tsin by the BIRTHS
steamer Irene.
Taotai Shung, chief magistrate Q
Tien-Tsin, has disappeared unde
charges OF betraying the movement
OF Chinese troops 10 the Japanes
he Is said to have given informatio
OF the kow Shing expedition, whic
resulted in the sinking Of that tram
port by the Japanese.
HokRoRs OF WAR.
A British naval officer, who W,
attached to the Chinese squadron
the Yalu fight, gives some part
culars vi that event in letter to I'll
London Graphic.
On board the Chen Yuen IL
fighting was awful. The deck al
the space around the guns wei
strewn with human fragments, au
three OF the five men working fou
ton gun were blown up by a she
from the Japanese warship Nsniw
A fourth gunner was shot viii
trying to escape from the turret, bl
the fifth stuck to his post. Th
man fired three rounds at Il
Naniwa, one shell entering Il
engines room Of the Japanese sh
and another smashing her for
bridge. The Naniwa than haule
oil. The Chinese Admiral rewarde
the surviving gunner with 1000 tael
Further particulars OF frightf
mangling OF men on the Chen Yut
are given in the letter. This sh
arrived at Weihaiwei after the fgI
in the same condition in which 81
left the battle. No attempt IA,
been made to wash the blood fro
her or to remove the corpses viii,
strewed her decks. The writer Q
presses the opinion that il the Eur
pesn rulers could have seen Il
decks OF the Chen Yuen they wOu
have fOrsworn war henceforth al
forever.
REPORT OF PING YANG DISASTER DENIE
Sir Halliday Mccartney, Couns,
Tor OF the Chinese Legation in Lo
don, calls attention in the Times
the absence OF confirmation OF Il
reported Chinese disaster at PHI
Yang. He says the Chinese 81
fsred defeat, not disaster, theI
Being short Of provisions they co
templated retreat when the city W
invested. Their killed aud wound,
numbered only 5000. The renal
ing 9.UOO-commanded by n geDer