The islander. [volume] (Friday Harbor, Wash.) 1891-1899, 1895-01-24
IN DEFENSE OF CHINA
Manchurian Princes Will Act
in the Future.
TAKE HOLD WITH THEIR HANDS

They Find This Is Necessary in Order to
Prevent the Intrigue of Chinese Of
ficials Chinese Stragglers Become
Savages. Lost to All Human Feeling.
LONDON, January 15.-The Times has
this dispatch from its Tien Tsin corre-
spondent:
The Manchurian Princes have taken
the defense of the country into their
own hands. The intrigues OF the Chi
nese officials aim to thwart them; hence
conflict that paralyzes the executive
power. Ii Hung Chang, though relieved
of all functions except that of Governor
of the province, still indirectly infu-
ences the officials. Chinese arriving from
Manchuria report that the country be-
tween the rivers Yalu and Lao Ho is
desolate. No houses are standing. The
timber has been burned, and towns and
villages, erstwhile populous, are without
vestige of life. Only scattered groups
of frozen corpses are seen. Food and
fuel cannot be got. The wounded suffer
terribly. The movements of troops on
both sides are hindered by the exhaus-
ton of the supplies, which the country
people at first supplied through fear.
The stragglers from the Chinese army,
who have taken refuge in the hills and
forests, have become savages, lost to all
human feeling.
THE ARMIES IN THE FIELD.
LONDON. January 15.-The Central
News correspondent in Toxic quotes
dispatch, dated at Hal Chang yesterday,
from Lieutenant-G General Katsura, who
represents that one portion of General
Sung's army left Yong Kow January 8
for Kaiping and another portion
marched in the direction of Hal Chang.
The enemy's main force retreated Janu-
airy 10 to Ku Ho Hee. The Japanese
cavalry is now scouting for the Chinese.
Dating his dispatch at Kaiping, yes
terday General Nogi reports that his
scouts say General Fling with some TO-
600 Chinese is in the vicinity of Tsaicho.
Other Japanese commanders report
large force of Chinese in the vicinity of
Yeig Kow and Lao va Ten.
General Mich, while escaping in car
riage January 10, passed within fifty me-
tiers of the Japanese, who killed his
horses, wounded him and nearly made
him prisoner.
The Chinese peace envoy, Chang Tin
Hoon, arrived in Shanghai this evening
with suite of fifty-six. The Cantonese
oppose his going to Japan, and declare
in their placards that he will disgrace
China.
DECLARATION FROM RUSSIA.
ST.. PETERSBURG, January 15.-The
Noyoe Vremya says to-day in leader
on the Eastern war:
"If the friendly and peaceful repre-
sensations of Russia's diplomacy be not
considered, she will be compelled to sup
port her claims on Corea with force OF
arms"
THE TONG HAK RESURRECTION.
LONDON, January 15.-The Toxic cor
respondent of the Central News says:
In dispatch from Fusan Captain Ia
kubakan yesterday reported that the
Tong Hak instruction in Junt Sen Do
has been suppressed. A captured spy
declared that the insurgents would prove
the sincerity of their surrender by be-
heading their principal chiefs and forty
others. The Captain and the Corean
authorities examined the Tong Hak
prisoners, who declared that divisions
had occurred among them, when the
Japanese sailors and Corean soldiers at
tackled them and completely terrified
them.