Delaware gazette and state journal. (Wilmington, Del.) 1883-1902, 1894-10-04
P.iNIC IN pen IN
Mutiny Among the Chinese Soldiers OPP
nosiny the .Jnnanesa In Coran.


SHANGHAI. Sept. 25-310 p. m.-The
Chinese army at Hello. on the Yalu river,
which is opposing the advance of the
main japanese army in Corea, has mutt
MED. The men are throwing away their
arms because they have no ammunition,
being cut off from their base of supplies
The Chinese defences have completely
is panic in Pekin, and the very name
Japanese inspires terror everywhere.
China is perfectly helpless.
CHINESE SET FIRE TO THEIR SHIP.
LONDON. Sept. 29.-A dispatch from
Shanghai to-day SAYS that the commander
of the Japanese warship Naniwa has re-
ported to the minister of marine, Count
Saigo, that while cruising in company
with the Akitsushima on September 23d,
! Chinese warship was sighted stranded in
the Gulf of Tair- En-Wan. The Japanese
believe sine was the kwang Kai. The
Chinese crew on board of her when the
japanese cruiser approached set fire to
their ship and escaped ashore.
The warship ashore was believed TO have
been so damaged as to be useless for fur
ther fighting and the Japanese completed
her destruction.
FOREIGNERS WARNED AGAINST PEKIN.
SHANGHAI, Oct. l.-Dispatches received
here from Tien-Tsin say that private
from Pekin. warning all foreigners from
proceeding to the capitol. The road and
waterway from the Yung Chow to Pekin
are alive with soldiers who are hostile to
all Europeans. Several British residents
Of Pekin have been assaulted. including
Mr.. Tours, interpreter of the British
Legation, DIR. Dudgeon and others who
were journeying south.
1t is rumored that the British steamer
Irene, which arrived at TEN Tsin on Sep
TENDER 25th, from Shanghai, having ON
board number of Maxim rapid-firing
guns and quantity of ammunition for
the Chinese, has infringed the neutrality
laws. The repI esentatives OF the British
government are understood to be taking
action in the matter.
SHANGHAI, Oct. 1.-The Emperor of
China will likely be dethroned in favor
of Prince kung's son, who will treat
with the japanese.
Lii Hung Chang has been superseded
in the supreme command by General
Sang Using, of the Province of Hanan,
who has received full powers.
Lii Hung Chang retires disguised to
Pao Ting Foo, the capital of the prov
ince of Chilli.
Twenty thousand Hanan soldiers
gathered aroung Shanghai Kivan, the
terminus of the Great Wall, where 1t
forms the boundary between the prov
inces of Chilli and Shing King. Lii Hung
Changes army is distrusted.
Sheng Tao Tai, customs commits
sioner, and several other high officials
OF Tien Tsin, have been disgraced for
malfeasance.
JAPANESE OCCUPY wIJu. ..
LONDON, Oct. Ia dispatch from
Shanghai to the Central News says the
Japanese have occupied Win without
meeting with any opposition on the part
of tho Chinese troops
Friction between Prince Kung, the
Emperor's vuncular appointee to the
Presidency of the Tsung- Ii Yamen 1.-THE
foreign board) and Lii Hung Chang. the
dispatch says, is inevitable. The Vice.
roy is certain to be hampered in his
conduct of operations against the Jap.
anese. The Imperial Council is COM
pletely disorganized, and tho corruption
which has prevailed in the commissary
department for years has left the troops
with no suitable clothing and scanty
supply of food. Cannons, rifles and
ether munitions of war, which from
time to time were alleged to have been
bought and paid for, cannot now be
found, and presumably the money rep
resented 10 have been expended fol
them was appropriated by the officials
into whose hands it was intrusted.
The immense camp between Tien-
Tsin and Taku is filled with raw leviei
of troops who are without arms, and, in
many cases, without sufficient clothing
. to cover them. Disorder in the camp is
rampant, there being not the slightest
degree of discipline. Executions take
place daily, the merest infraction Of
rule or law being punishable by the
loss of the offenders head.
European residents of China are tax
ing refuge in the treaty ports under thu
protection of the warships of their re
spective countries. A large number o.
Chinese merchants are also seeking
safety in flight. Their goods are bein!
seized, and in many cases men of larg,
means have been plundered of ever,
vestige of property they possessed, ant
beaten and otherwise maltreated if they
protested. Most of these have ais,
made their way to the treaty ports.
n The troops stationed at Canton hav
been ordered to Formosa.
The PiH Mall Gazette publishes dis
patch from Shanghai stating that tn
Japanese troops are reported to b
rapidly nearing Moukden.