The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1895-01-08
BARBAROUS JAPANESE
AN EYEWITNESS'S STORY or THE
ATROCITIES At PORT ARTHUR.
"a Chastity Inferno, to BE Remem-
bered with Il FearsOme Shudder
Until Ones Dying Day."

LONDON, Jan. S.-The Times publishes
a letter from Kobe Japan, describing the
Port Arthur atrocities. The writer says:
1.-The English and American military at
taches witnessed the scene from Boulder
hill, and were equally amazed and Mortified
as myself at what they described as q
gratuitous ebullition of barbarism The
atrocities We're not confined to Wednesday.
Thursday, Friday, Saturday and Sunday
were spent by the soldiers from dawn to
dark, in murder and pillage, in mutilation
of every conceivable kind and in nameless
atrocities until the town became a CHASTITY
inferno. to be remembered with fearsome
shudder until ones dying day. The corpses
of women, children and men were strewn
in the streets by the hundred, perhaps thou
sands for could not count them, some
with not limb answered. some with heads
hacked, cut crosswise or split lengthwise,
some ripped open, not by chance. but with
careful precision, down and across, dis
emboweled and dismembered, with occa-
sionally dagger or bayonet thrust into the
lower part of the trunk. l saw groups of
prisoners tied together in bunch, with
their hands behind their backs riddle1
with bullets for five minutes and then hewn
in pieces. saw a junk stranded on the
beach, filled with fugitives of both sexes
until 1 can say no more of the awful sights
OF those four days. Why repeat them all
in painful detail?''
A Distinguished Japanese Diplomats.
SAN FRANCISCO, Jan. TX. Kato, the
newly appointed Japanese minister to Great
Britain, has arrived from Japan on the
steamer China. kato is one of the most
distinguished and able diplomats in the
To- ar 10 hos hao,,
head minister of the bureau of politics, in
the department of foreign affairs at Toxic
the position filled by Kurino until his APP
pointment to the office of minister to the
United States. He will succeed Viscount
kaoki as the japanese minister to the
been filling the two offices of the minister
to England and Germany and this relieves
him of share of his burdensome duties.
kato has been given the British mission.
Niscount kaoki will remain in Berlin Mr.
kato said that no intimation of the terms
under which Japan woula agree to a ces-
China has asked the Japanese government
for a statement Of what indemnity it would
require as condition for the cessation of
hostilites. The reply was that the matter
would only be discussed when China con-
sented to send plenipotentatiaries to Japan
to negotiate a peace treaty. Minister kato
does not expect to see the Chinese capital
taken while cold weather lasts. He will
leave for the East this evening.
Instructions to Chinese ENJOYS.
PARIS. Jan. IA dispatch from Shanghai
states that the Chinese ENJOYS appointed
to negotiate peace with Japan are in
structed to accede to no demands for the
surrender of Chinese territory. They will
treat only the basis of granting indie
pendence to Corea and paying an indemnity
to Japan.
The two Chinese generals, Ching and
Chen, who were reported by Ii Hung Chang
as having died herocaly while facing the
enemy at Port Arthur, have turned up I'M
scratched.