The progressive farmer. [volume] (Winston, N.C.) 1886-1904, 1894-12-11
LATE FOREIGN NEWS.
PROGRESS OF THE WAR IN THR
EAST.
Peace Proposals Pending Between China
and Japan-The Nicaragua Dispute.

and ~Japan-The Nicaragua Dispute.
LONDON, Dec, 4-GeneraI Barrios,
special nvo of the Government Of
Nicaragua to Great Britain, in connec
ton with the settlement of the dispute
regarding the Mosquito territory, is
negotiating with the Earl of Kimberly,
Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs,
for the appointment of a British minis
ter to Nicaragua instead of a consul.
He will also ask for some revision Of
the Clayton Bulwer treaty. In his In
tercouse with the British Foreign Office,
Gen Barrios argues that the Arrest and
expulsion from Nicaragua of K. 81.
Hatch, British Majesty1s counsel at
Bluefields, cannot be discussed as a
violation of the sanctity of diplomatic
agent, as Mr.. Hatch bad not received
his exequatur from the NicaragUan
Government.
TOXIC, Dec. Japan has notified
China that no further peace proposals
will be considered unless made by 8
regularly accredited ambassador from
the Chinese Court. At the same time
Japan reminds China that it is not
Japan, but China that is suing for
peace. Japan is dissatisfied with
Chinas temporizing.
DEhLlN, LEU. 4.-1uS
today announces that the Importation
into Germany of canned beef and pork
and corned beef from the United States
will be prohibited unless such meats
are accompanied by certificates from
the United States inspectors that the
animals from which the meats were
obtained were free from disease when
slaughtered.
LONDON, Dec. 4-The Central NeWs'
correspondent in Shanghai says that
the British steamer Guy Mannering is
landing there from Hamburg war ma
terial valued at ELSE, 600.
A Central NeUS dispatch from Chez
Foo says that Commissioner Detring,
who returned On Sunday from Japan,
repeated in an interview to day the
statements he made on Monday that he
was empowered to negotiate for peace
with Japan in the name of the Chinese
Board of Foreign Affairs, and that he
was recalled because the negotiations
for peace had passed into the hands Of
the american Ministers to Japan and
China.
Commander Detring added that Col.
Hanneken, the COMMANDMENT Chief OF
the Chinese forces, is raising 100, 900
soldiers to be differed entirely by
mOSG1y O0EuuduS. 0Om0 VI
these officers have already arrived and
others are on the way to China.
Seven Thousand soldiers have been
ordered to reinforce Tung Chow, fifty
miles west of Chez Foo, and are being
supplied from Wei Hal Wei.
A dispatch from Seoul, Corea, dated
December 3, says:
Count Inouye, the Japanese Minis
ter, is taking vigorous measures to re-
store internal order. Radical changes
are being made in the departments of
the interior. justice and education.
"a combined force of Japanese and
COreans was conveyed by steamer to
Asan, and marched thence to Kong il
to attack the Tonghanks. This force
routed thousands of Tonghanks, and
killed a large number"
LONDON, Dec. 4.-The Central Ne1Us
says that China has been offered all
the money that the treaty powers are
likely to allow Japan to claim az in
demnity on the basis of a four and a
half per cent. gold loan, secured by
the unchanged revenues of the treaty
ports.