The Seattle post-intelligencer. [volume] (Seattle, Wash. Terr. [Wash.]) 1888-1914, 1895-07-24
PERFIDY OF CHINA.
Riots in the Interior Fomented
by High Officials,
TO KEEP THE FOREIGNERS OUT.
China Promised TO Hand Formosa Over
to Japan-Tnstead. She stirred Up
a Formidable Rebellion.

Tokyo. July I2-1Per Empress OF India
TO Victoria July q. The Japanese au-
thorities are in possession OF information
from China giving q new explanation OF
the riots in SZech9an. and directly impn-
eating the Picking government. Among
the commercial stipulations in the treaty
of peace with Japan. that OF opening the
remote interior 10 foreign trade has met
with the strongest objections from the
court and Tsungli Yamen, and it is al
legged that Siceroy Liu was secretly in
strUcted 10 foment the disturbances, in
order TO prove that the upper Yang,se
provinces We're unsafe for strangers. By
this means IL was hoped that aliens might
be prevented from awaiting themselves of
the newly granted privilege. But since
the outrages have been resented with
wholly unexpected spirit, the government
has taken fright, and endeavors TO escape
responsibility by degrading Liu and max
Ing him the scapegoat.
This is more than the deposed viceroy
Is willing 10 endure. and his followers
threaten. in case he is subjected 10 public
trial. as the French envoy proposes, TO
publish facts inculpating some of the
highest dignitaries of the empire. If
Liu must fall, he is determined that
others greater than he shall so down
with him.
The attempt to detain Japanese Envoy
Hayashi at Tientsin failed utterly, as
LII
Chang, who fully realized the absurd
ity of the orders sent him from Peking
Hayashi reached the capital on June %,
and presented his credentials TO the en-
peror In person on July I. Negotiations
respecting the prompt fulfillment of the
treaty provisions and the restoration of
Manchurian territory were opened on the
Sth.
In the belief that the Chinese govern
ment would honestly fulfill it's pledges TO
prevent disturbances in Formosa, the
Japanese authorities originally sent only
a sufficient military force TO occupy the
positions from which it was expected the
Chinese would peacefully withdraw. But
since the Picking officials have broken
faith, and are known to be encouraging
the insurgents to resist, a fresh brigade
has been dispatched from Japan to the re-
gion still in disorder. The northern ports
are submissive. but Takao and Taiwanfu.
on the west coast. are threa tened by mob
of BLACK Flags under Gen. Liu, against
whom the foreign residents have now no
protection. Until July the English dem
liens, twelve in number, were guarded by
British marines, but on that date this
force was Withdrawn by command of Al
miral Butler, whose reasons for leaving
his countrymen undefended are not clear
ly understood. Beside the English in these
exposed ports there are some twenty other
Europeans and one American. The Japa-
nese are acting as speedily as circum-
stances viii allow. but their original plans
have been to some extent Disconnected by
Chna's failure to perform her oblisa-
tons.
In Hatin, district of Tonkin, 1000 insur-
gents have risen against the French gu
thorities. The revolt is tacitly supported
by the native officials.
The latest political disturbances in
Korea, eliminating in the flight of the
home minister, PAX Yonghyo 10 Japan,
grew out of a contest for supremacy be-
tween the queen and the minister in Which
the latter was defeated. PAX has never
really possessed the confidence of the
court of the Korean nobility. He was
condemned TO death for conspiracy in 1884
and took refuge in Japan, where an I'M
successful attempt was made 70 murder
him about a year ago by emissaries of
the king. He was pardoned last autumn,
at the intercession of Count Inouye, and
given place in the reformed cabinet. For
short time the queen sought to make
him one OF her partisans and until May
OF this year he held close confidential rela-
tons with her majesty. Then the alliance
was broken and the minister soon found
his life In danger again. He concocted a
plan for reducing the queens power by re-
moving the regular bodyguard from the
palace and substituting a force devoted 10
himself and his faction. The king at first
approved this change, but on being warn
ed by the queen that it portended evil to
the throne, he signed an order for Pak's
arrest, which his energetic coasort en-
deavored TO carry into effect on the night
OF July s.
Having received timely warning PAX
fed a. midnight with few fellow-plott-
ers. and escaped down the river TO Jen-
sen. from which port he is believed to
have sailed for Japan. An edict charg-
ing him with treason was issued, and
agents were sent TO Jensen to capture
him IL possible. His purpose was evil
IDENTIFY TO hold the queen in restraint. If
not actually depose her. and In view OF
the extreme measures he proposed. the
Japanese officials in Seoul refused 10 sup
port him. The queens rule is for the
moment absolute. Her ambition is TO
bring back her exiled relatives, the Mings,
and reinstate them as the heads OF ad-
ministration, but the king distrusts the
Mings, and NAV be persuaded 70 oppose
this programme. The absence Of Count
Inouye at this crisis Is calculated 10 en-
danger Japanese Interests. and on July
II was decided by the Tokyo govern
rnent that he should return Immediately
to his post Japanese troops in Seoul are
patroling the city, and the guard OF ma
rines recently dismissed from the United
States legation has been recalled by Min
lister Sill.