New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1895-04-09
CANTON NAY BE ATTACH ED.
REPORTED PURPOSE OF THE JAPANESE
FLEET NOW AT THE PESCADORES.
Ii HUNG CHANCES WOUND COMPLETELY HEALED
SENTIMENT or TIE JAPANESE PUBLIC RE-
GARDING THE TERMS To BE EXAcTED
FROM CIIINA-ADM1RAL TING AND
THE FALL. OF WEI-HAI-WE1

FROM CIIINA-ADMIRAL TING AND
THE FALL. OF wEIHAI-wE1
London April s-A dispatch from Hong Kong to
'The Globe says that forty japanese transports
are assembled the Pescadorcs, ana II is reported
that it is intended to make attack upon Canton
Preparations are actively making to defend that
city, and torpedoes are being placed In the river
to prevent the enemy's ships from ascending.
\ Central News dispatch from Toxic SAYS that
Or. Sato reports tha: Ii Hung ChanSs wound is
completely healed. DR. Sato will at once return
10 Hiroshima
\ dispatch from Toxic says that eight Chinese
officers captured 10y the japanese a. the Pesca-
dores. Eighteen guns an immense number OF iro-
phes ana large stores Of ammunition and rice We're
taken and were sent to Japan
Toxic, March ~. via san Francisco, April s.
The views he'd 10y the Japanese public. outside OF
Official circles in reference TO the terms To b.
exacted from China are two. one section of the
people look chiefly to the monetary Indemnity; the
other. to territorial acquisitions. The former de-
sreS SO to cripple China's finances tha, for many
years TO come she viii be unable 70 think Of war
OF revenge They look forward also to great
increase in Japan's national power and adminstra-
tive obligations. and they calculate that The aGj-
tiona outlay involved by that increase. including
an extensive programme Of military and naval dee
velopment. Will aggregate from 3ocoG0 10 4oVo,""
OF yen annually, the same sum which China wou.l
have to pay by way of interest. Naturally the
overlook the fact that some guarantee - lis p"y-
ment must be exacted from China. Thcy taik
therefore. of japanese occupation - the provinces
OF K!an-Su ami Chi-KianE. aHd Of posting a
japanese garrison at the Taku forts. Moreover
they insist upon the permanent ccsson Of The
island Of Formosa.
The territorial party. on the other hand. asserts
that it is hopeless to think Of oxacting large
money payment from China. ana that as the prime
object Of the war was TO eXclul" china finally
from the sphere OF Corcan politics. its mos; APP
OF Chna's borders 50 far that Corei's fate would
cease u have any interest for her. These poll
uciaNs contend that the whole OF Manchura. cast
ward OF the Liao River. including. Of course. the
Liao-Tung peninsula. should become part of Japan s
dom nio,s and they too like the othe. party. want
Formosa. However large may be- the territorial
demands they viii not be conteu- without am
indemnity The amount Of which they nN at the
totai expenses incurred hy japan
Both parties are strongly disposed TO h"i"v" that
notnlng snort OF JI .ttI"-' Occupation ~ f"kiHS
can induce China 10 aerce 10 any acceptable terms
idea ot We-Iiai-Weis surrender lii not Originate"
with Admiral Ting. the soldiers being rc-pon>.o."
Land forces became alarmed The; Imagined that
the rest OF the Pei-Yaus squadron also t.t'adei I'D
,n'ho, -. ~, r,,tiriaI ati NOR ma. vya,t
ylkci a meeting of ali The foreign oflc,rs ami ,a"
Taotli. The meeting decided tha' nothing r"main"l J
written hD ne Iao'd. 10 N.nl.nal I'.s I''
night. a m. he German oihccf Wls r.it'4 ',
mral as the situation had become critical t.e
mutneers having seized the shll ar being ta.ti -
desert in her Sne Gfrran o;h1ra hasi@n'1 20 ,e ,ic
Tao;ais letter lying unopened on tn ilp.c \ Il
the situation laid before rim that re agreed TO
surrender.