The sun., 1894-12-17
TWO JhphNEsE ARMIEs.
They Are PrepnrinE 10 Attack Tie.ts
and New Chwang.

They Are Preparing TO Attack Tiertsin
and New ChwsnE.
LONDON, Dec. 1G.-The Central News hears
from Its correspondent in Shanghai:
"Pekin kilograms say that two Jspanese
armies are concentrating preparatory to attacks
on Tientsln and New Chwang."
The Central News correspondent In Antonr
telcgraphed late in the evening Of Dec. IA:
"ln accordance with Gen. Nodzu's instruo-
tions, the Feng-Ifuang garrison. which was con-
fronted on Dec. ~ by 1000 Chinese, began the
attack on the enemy at daybreak this morning.
The garrison was 400 strong, and was COM
manded by Col. Tomoyasu.
1.-THE main battle took place at Yih- Min Shan,
five miles from Feng-Huang. The Japanese at
tackled with spirit and defeated the Chinese,
driving them to Timatsch. The Japanese loss
wns three officers killed and 20 privates killed
and wounded; the Chinese, $50 killed and
wounded and 30 prisoners. The Japanese cap
say that Gen. / had under him more than 1000
Kirn troops who are in every way superior to
"Gen Tachmi's brigade IL now moving south
ward to turn back the Kirn fugitives. No news
Ia obtanabe from the left division Of the first
army. owing to the interruption OF telegraphic
The Central News correspondent in Shanghai
The first and second Japanese armies are
reported 70 be suffering greatly from the cold,
Chang YIN kqng, President Of the Board a, OF
been appointed Ambassador to Japan with In
structions to negotiate peace"
Marshal Yamagata, who left his command
owing TO illness, arrived In Hiroshima yester..
Hiroshima and hourly expects orders as to fu-
ture operations.
day received from It's special war correspondent.
now at Hiroshima, the following emphatic
denial from, a high Japanese authority OF the
ians after the fall of Port Arthur:
:" HIROSHIMA. Japan. Dec. l6;-Concerning
sured by Ito Myoii. Secretary General OF the
Imperial Cabinet, that the reports are exagger-
civilians, said to have been butchered by
japanese troops in Port Arthur, were really SOL
Further, the Chinese soldiers always discard
their uniforms when IN flight. Most OF tho
civilians had previously fled. Those who re-
THE Japanese forces, when they marched into
lind that the bodies OF their captured comrades
had been fearfuiiy mutilated. The Chinese gar
Ts9h seehg thss ort wns hSa
The vict0rs found the pinioned bodies Of thei-
fellow soldiers Ripped open and dismembered;
while some Of the captives had been burned
alive. These atrocities and the memory OF
others committed by the Chinese since the be-
ginn Ing Of the war enraged the japanese be-
Nearly 800 Chinese prisoners were tax en- when
and as kindly treated as Others have been. The
wounded Chinese here are treated well. The
EmperGrss own physician is in charge OF the
WAsHIHaroS. Dec. 16.-An trustworthy in
formation from Japan indicates that the
Japanese soldiers are observing the order
issued to tho land forces by Count
0lyams lwao. Minister Of state for
erent operations being. properly confined
gagged, and there being no reason whatever for
cnmity between individuals because their coun-
tries are at war. the common principles OF hui
manity dictate that succor and rescue should
he extended even to the enemys forces, who are
disabled either by wounds or disease"
In his order Count Oyama calls attention to
the Red Cross Association which has its at
tendants IN the field with the belligerents, Ja-
pan became party 10 Red Cross principles in
1856, through her adhesion to the Geneva
treaty, and in 1850 the japanese Emperor ac-
cepted the Presidency of the Japanese Red
Cross Association.
The fullest protection to the emblem of the
Red Cross was given by an imperial decree for
bidding it's use for any purpose except by the
army and the association.
The spirit of the Geneva treaty insists that
Immediately a soldier Is wounded or be-
comes disabled by sickness he is no longer bel
ligerent, but becomes from that moment q
neutral, subject for the merciful
care OF those employed In administering
relief under the treaty; hence Japan, by
instructinR her army to show tho same degree
of tender mercy to "A wounded or sick Chinese
soldier that they would to their own. is simply
carrying out the obligations she took upon her
self when her solemn signature and seal were
given TO the Geneva Convention.