Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1895-08-14
MADE TO APOLOGIZE
Chinese officials Insult Japanese
ENJOYS.
HAWAIIAN PLOT At HONG KONG
Disaster Caused by the Recent
Storm.
COMING CABINET CHANGES

VICTORIA, b. c., August 14.-The steam
er Empress of Japan has arrived with ad-
vices from Yokohama up to August 2. Re
ports of impending cabinet changes are
freely circulated in Toxic, and are largely
credited, although entirely without official
confirmation. The illness of Viscount Nut
su is believed to be too serious to allow him
to resume the control of the foreign office
business, which may fall into disorder If left
too long without practical supervision.
Insulting the Japanese.
Chinese officials in Pekin are unable to re-
sist the temptation to show their spite
toward Japan, and disagreeable part of
the new Japanese envoy's duties Is to call
them to account when they become often
sive Tsung Ii Yamen has twice been
obliged to apologize to Mr.. Hayashi for the
publication of the Objectionable epithet
'Wojen'' in the official gazette, and once for
the circulation of a memorial to the en-
peror in which the Japanese people were
spoken Of as insular barbarians
Good Feeling Toward America.
At no previous time has intercourse be-
tween Japanese and Americans been so
friendly as now. officers of United States
vessels stationed at Yokohama are con-
stantly receiving hospitable courtesies from
the military and navel authorities of the
empire. chiefly in commeInoration of the
hearty welcome given by the Petrol to the
Japanese soldiers at Ying kow last winter.
At a banquet offered by Marshal Nozu to
Admiral Carpenter and his subordinateS
the marshal declared that the incident
would never be forgotten, but would last
ingly remind the Jarane of their in
de5tedness to their friends who stood by
them while others held aloof.
The Chcnstu OutrnEes.
The French envoy at Pekin has agreed
that the commission for investigating the
missionary outrages at Chengtu shall con-
sist of three persons. the Catholic Bishop
Dunante, the Chinese treasurer and the
Chinese chief of Shee Chuan province, and
the preponderance of native officials. 1t is
thought by foreigners, to require an eX-
PLANTATION A body Of imperial troops will
be sent from Pekin to preserve order dur
ing the examination.
Alleged Hawaiian Plot.
Hong Kong newspapers assert that a
plot for the violent overthrow of the Ha-
waiian government has been detected in
that colony. Twenty or more Americans
are said to be implicated and four Of the
number are accused of secretly manufac-
turing dynamite bombs in a small village
near Canton. 1t is alleged that evidence
has been discovered showing that the gov
ernment offices at Honolulu would be de-
stroyed with these bombs. The police of
Hong Kong are diligently inQuiring into
the affair, but none of the suspected party
has been arrested.
Last Months Great Storm.
The number of deaths reported in the
railway accident Of July IS was greatly
exaggerated. Only sixteen soldiers were
killed, and eighteen were more or less seri-
ousy injured. The statement that the
train was blown bodily off the track into
the sea Is also discredited. 1t Is said the
rails were displaced by the sea, which was
driven by a tempest to a great height, and
that the cars consequently ran over the
into the deep water.
The effects of the storm were disastrous
In all southwestern provinces of Japan.
Thousands of houses were destroyed, and
hundreds of fishing boats and other small
craft were sunk, and at least one hundred
lives are known to have been lost
Many additional disasters caused by the
storm of Jaly % are reported from the
south and west of Japan. One thousand
fishermen of the single province of Sat
suma are known to have been drowned.
Three steamships were driven ashore, and
few of their crews and passengers escaped
alive. Railway accidents have been num-
erouS in consequence of the heavy floods,
and several villages on the seacoast have
beea literally destroyed. The list of
deaths, as stated by authorities, will exceed
1000