The Goodland republic. [volume] (Goodland, Kan.) 1891-1907, 1894-10-05
II SURPRISES ALL BELIEF.
THE CORRUPTION IN THE CHI
NESE COMMiSSARfAT.
THERE is NOTHING FOR THE TROOPS
Food Is scant and weapons and Am,
manition Bought and FaId for by
the Government Is StoIen-Un-
paralIeled Horrors OF the
Late Naval Fight on tho
YaIu River.

LONDON, Oct. "A dispatch from
Shanghai declares that the CORFU ption
in the Chinese comnissariat passes
belief. There is nothing for the
troops. Food is scanty and weapons
and war munitions bought and paid
for can neither be found nor traced.
The great Chinese camp between Tien
Tsin AMI Taku is filed with raw
leyies and disorder is rampant,
although executions are frequent.
The men are without rifles. Most of
the Europeans have gone to the coast
towns for protection. Many Chinese
merchants have also migrated to the
coast towns, feeling that they will
be more secure with the foreigners.
Another dispatch from Shanghai
reports that the emperor of China
will very likely be dethroned in favor
of Prince Kumg's son, who will treat
with the Japanese.
Ii Hung Chang has, it is reported,
been superseded in the supreme COM
mand by General Sang Using of the
province of Huban, and has retired
to Pae Ting Foo. Lii Hung Changes
army is distrusted. Chang Tao Tai,
a custom commissioner, and other
high officials of Tien Tsin have been
disgraced for malfeasance.
Letters from Yokohama state that
Japan is preparing to increase her
army in Corea to 100, 900 men, to crush
the Chinese army in Corea and march
on Pellin, where a claim for a large
indemnity will be made and the ces-
sion of the island of Formosa de-
manded. The Japanese believe that
they will be in a position to dictate
70 70 hot H.a -
year.
HORRORS OF THE NAVAL FIGHT.
A British naval officer attached to
the Chinese naval squadron, which
was engaged in the fight off the
mouth of the Yalu river, has written
letter to the Graphic in which he
gives the following additional details
of the fighting:
On board the war ship Chen Yuen
the fighting was awful. The decks
and the space around the guns were
strewn with human fragments. Three
of five men working on a four ton
gun were blown up by a shell from
the Japanese war ship Naniwa. The
fourth gunner was shot while trying
to escape from the turret and the
fifth stuck to his post. This man
fired three rounds at the Naniwa, one
she'll entering the engine room of the
Japanese ship and another slashing
her forerigging. The Naniwa then
hauled off. The Chiness admiral re-
warded the surviving gunner with a
present of 1000 taels.
A she'll glanced from the steel deck
of the Chen Yuen and went through
her tower, shattering everything
| therein. lieutenant who was in
the act of speaking through the tube
leading to the engine room was blown
into atoms and his head left hanging
to the speaking pipes. Huge frag-
ments of armor, and the teak backing
thereof, were carried on board by the
shot, crushing large number of
sailors into shapeless mass.
An European engineer who was in
the act of cropping about in an en-
deavor to repair a steam pipe was
drenched from head to foot with the
blood of an assistant who was dis
emboweled by his de by shot from
the enemy's ship.
The Chen Yuen arrived at Wal Hal
Wei the day after the fight in the
same condition in which she left the
battle. No attempt had been made
to wash the blood from her or to re-
move the corpses which strewed her
decks.
The writer expresses the opinion
that if the European rulers could
have seen the decks of the Chen Yuen
they would have foresworn war
henceforth and forever.