The San Francisco call., 1895-11-14
The Murdered Rulers Course
Had Been Directed From
st. Petersburg.
SERIOUS UPRISING IN KANsU.
Mohammedan Rebels Burning Towns
and Putting Women and Chill.
dren to Death.
Especial Correspondence Of The United Press.l

pIaved bv Russia in the Korean Peninsula |
is modelled on the lines followed by her
diplomats in Southeastern Europe. Her
objects are to preserve the little kingdom
for the present in a state of weakness and
maladministration, and above all to pre-
vent its occupation by Japan. These OBJ
jects she desires to attain without proyok-
ing direct collision with Japan or creating
situation that would invite European
interference. Hence she intrigues to place
in the path OF progress obstacles suffi-
GENTLY formidable either to defeat the
reformatory efforts of the Japanese or to
drive them to measures inconsistent with
their engagement to respect Korean inde.
pendence. The Queen and her faction,
the Min, were obviously convenient in
struments for Russia's purpose, and it is
generally thought that her Maiesty's at
tempt to upset the small edifce of prog
ress already built and to restore to her
partisans the power they were formerly
notorious for abusing was largely prompted
by Russian advice.
The circumstances connected with the
stranding of the Occidental and Oriental
steamer Belgic at Suno-saki on the Sth of
September were inquired into by Marine
Court in the British Consulate, Yoko-
hama, on the 21st day of October. Many
rumors having been circulated as to the
state of the captain, Walker, Immediately
before and after the accident, damaging
revelations were expected. But with the
exception OF the chief officers evidence
nothing confirming the rumors was
elected. The chief officer swore that the
captain was in ''dazed and dull condi-
ton" shortly after the accident; that he
was apparently under the influence of
liquor and that his habits were not tenn
perate. But as the chief officer was ad
mittedly on bad terms with the captain,
and as all the other witnesses spoke in the
opposite sense, the court refused to credit
the chief officers evidence and limited
itself to reprimanding the captain for an
error in judgment. The captain frankly
admitted that the accident had been
caused by his own defective calculation, !
in ryaistaking one headland for another. |
He has been continued in the command of |
the Belgic.
Details of some incidents of the Moham-
indian rebellion in Kansu have been re-
ceived from foreign missionaries in Shining.
1t appears that terrible atrocities have
been committed by the rebels, numbers of
or burned. Many cruelty wounded people
managed to struggle into the city of Sim
ing, where they became objects of tender
care by the missionaries.
Owing to strong pressure exc rted by the
British authorities and the assemblage of
a considerable naval force at Foochow the
reluctant Viceroy of Fuhkien has at length
been induced to expedite the course OF JUS
tice in the Kucheng affair. He promised
on October 10 that eighteen of the prison
ers then in Jail at Kucheng should be
forthwith executed; that the remaining
fourteen should be at once subjected to
further examination by the mixed COM
mission and that the commission should
be vested with competence to pronounce
and execute sentence of death without ref
erence to the Viceroy, thus eliminating
the element of procedure hitherto fatal to
celerity. The British squadron remains
at Foochow 10 insure the faithful fulfill
ment of these engagements.
Persistent attempts are still made in the
East to secure for France the credit of hav-
ing compelled the Chinese Government to
permanently degrade and disqualify the
ex-Viceroy of Szechuan. 1t is claimed that
when N. Gerard, the French represent
ative in Peking, obtained from the Tsung-i
Yamen satisfactory arrangements for the
pecuniary indemnification of his nationals
losses in Cheng-tu, he also elected a
promise that cue punishment should be
meted out to any officials found guilty of
having promoted the outrages by con-
nivance or negligence.
T 1t is singular that any one conversant
with the ways of Chinese offlcialdom
should believe in the faithful discharge of
so vague an engagement. The undoubt-
edly established fact is that the British
Minister, Sir n. O'Conor, presented to the
Tsung-i Yamen an ultimarum declaring
that unless the ex-Viceroy were publicly
degraded within three days the affair
would be placed in the hands of the Brit
ish admiral, whose instructions were to
occupy the Yang-tse Valley. Sir Nicholas
at that same time, exacted a pledge that
all the other officials guilty of want of vigi-
lance should be punished. An edict de-
grading the ex-Viceroy was Immediately
issued, and on October IA the other officials
were dealt with.
Advices from the vicinity of Ningpo
state that anonymous placards were re-
Gently posted in various places inviting
.
Christians and to destroy the chapels
Here is a translation of one of the placards:
"This placard is to inform and invite the
upper and lower lintseng (literary men) to
proceed to Macheo to attempt with one
heart and strength TO destroy the Jesus re-
ligion wholly. Now, in Szechuan and
Foochow and every place, in obedience TO
the imperial will they have just killed
and driven out the devils and those who
eat the foreign teachings, but we, the
natives of the holy and virtuous region,
see everywhere over our hills chapels
established by the foreign devils to propa-
gate the foreign doctrine. Our sacred
nation IS lighting against the Japanese
and many OF the enemy were captured by
Liu's armies and there were foreign devils
found among them. Why not come al
together here and make use of this won
derful opportunity to destroy these rob.
bers?"
The first effect of these incendiary docu-