The evening times., 1895-11-28
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of wretchedness, over clay hills, deep sand,
with good sized streams to ford.
''Tne nignt was extremely hot, and it
was necessary to make a detour to avoid q
Japanese DIVISION on the move for Ahsafi,
wnere tue first land fight or tue war took
place two days later. This divergence took
the command through three miles of par
tally submerged rice fields, without a road.
hut the entire distance OF thirty one miles
was made in eleven hours. As the men
Lad not drilled on shore for year, they
were severely taxed, but there was no strag
Cling.
MANY fugitive Koreans fleeing from the
city with their women and children were
met three miles below Seoul and, IL was
said over Il hundred thousand had gone into
the country. On entering the gates not an
inhabitant was to be seen. The houses were
all closed, and the market place, usually
thronged at that early hour OF the morning
was entirely deserted.
1.-THE gates were heavily qua rded by jap
anese infantry. The men were Immediately
marched into the legation compound, where
they remained on guard continuously for
nearly two months. Regarding this sojourn
Capt. Elliott says:
up to the 26th of August no man left the
compound. All thoroughly understood the
situation, that the Japanese garrison had
Dttu " OOO ihtI III OIuti 10 btIu
troops TO Pingyang, and that in case they
were defeated their legation would prob
ably be attacked in Seoul.
IAN event OF this kind would endanger
the lives of all foreigners, for there is
strong party of Koreans whose cry is
Korea for Koreans; also religious sect
OF fanatics calling themselves Tonghaks,
organized to do away with Christianity;
but the term is now generally applied
to rebellious Koreans.
STIR THE FOREIGNERS.
'This belief proved to be true. for
letter written by the kings father, the
old regent, to the commanding Chinese
general in Pingyang, stated: You gain Il
victory and 1 will stir the foreigners up
here in the rear The regent was con-
fronted by this letter in the hands Of the.
Japanese minister in Seoul later. and
admitted he wrote 1t, and for this lost most
of the power to which they had restored
him.
1.-The conduct of the men up to August 26
was exemplary in the extreme. Money
was served out after this, aud they were
allowed liberty until 6 p. M, when they
could be spared. Temptations To Snug
gle liquor were offered by Koreans con
stantly. Stin there We're but few cases
of drunkenness or overstaying liberty.
Their general conduct was good, and, al
uiOuku lucy NOhld Nt btcu Ahtl ECt
back to heship. Inever heard q complaint
Capt. Elliott gives vivid account of the
dangers the detail for guard at Pekin ex-
peric ed in a frczefi country, amid a dan
geruu- lisorganiZed army. on his march
lie Du ed that the bodies Of troops were
armed with all manner of weapons, among
them tower muskets, gingais, Reming-
ton rifles of several calibers, German car
bines magazine rifles OF small caiiber.
bamboo poles with a small flag and spike,
tridents, swords with handles four feet
long, and a variety OF similar implements.
He saw a thousand men mustered to pay
honor to Ii Hung Chang, and they We're un-
armed. He did not believe that the troops
near Pekin had a single cartridge. In
his opinion, had the japanese landed in the
district of Pechilli, 10000 Chinese sol
diers would have been defeated and an i'm
mense rabble of armed men swarming
through the country would have made the
best Of their way home. He also noted
that there was not haversack in the chi
nese army.