The Pacific commercial advertiser. [volume] (Honolulu, Hawaiian Islands) 1885-1921, 1895-07-18

HakO6ate on the 9Th inst
The Fourth of July was celebrated
in Yokohama with the usual fetes.
Cholera is still spreading and max
ing its appearance in fresh localities
There have been inundations il
several parts of the country, owing tc
heavy rains.
There is not much doing in imports
| but in new silk prices a e higher, and
there Is large business in tea.
Late advices received from Korea
state that the Queen has summoned
| the Russian Minister and his wife to
| court as court advisers.
| During the twenty-four hours end
ing at noon on July Sd 223 cases and
49 deaths from cholera were reported
| throughout the empire, and 162 cases
| and 56 deaths in the subsequent
| twenty-fOuI hours.
The government is reported to have
| decided to grant to each soldier, who
| took part in the expedition to China,
a sum not less than fifteen yen to
| compensate them in some sense for
the hardships they underwent.
A colored seaman of the u. S. S.
Yorktown, who recently stabbed a
Japanese to death in Nagasaki, has
been tried in the Z. S. Consulate there
| and found guilty Cf committing mur-
der. The prisoner, however, appealed
against the decision.
Affairs are quiet in Japan, except
for the activity shown by the police in
the suppression of anti-ministerial
movements, and a number of politi-
clans were recently fined for holding a
y citing, which was said to be the
formation of a new political associa-
tion, without the permission of the
police.
The japanese losses in the late war
up,to May Sth last, the day on which
peace was restored, are putat 1898 who
were killed in the field or succumbed
to sickness. OF this number 736 were
killed in the field, 228 died from
wounds, 1858 died from sickness, 46
died from accident or suicide, and 25
are missing.
Though the Formosan natives are
generally very mild, and willingly
submit to the Japanese authorities,
the rebels are much more obstinate
than the Chinese troops on the main
land, and repeatedly attempt to cut
the military telegraph wire or to at
tack the commissariat quarters.
Whenever two or three such rebels
assemble they Immediately cause a
disturbance. This is a great contrast
to what occurred in Manchuria, and
the japanese are, therefore, under the
necessity of statiOning their troops
here and there in various localities.
Added to this, the attacks on the
rebels are not so easy as in Manchuria,
owing to the bad roads. Besides,
cholera is constantly threatening
The attacks of heat, rain and poison
Gus insects are no less formidable, and
the sufferings of the Japanese troops
are quite beyond the imagination of
those at home.
kilograms to the Toxic papers re-
port that the transport MOji Maru,
from China, on June 2Sth collided
with the steamer Togo Maru, which
was lying at anchor. The Moji Maru
had on board officers, 254 non-com-
missioned officers and men of the
army, in addition to A army coolies
and 163 horses. The Moji is said to
have dropped her anchor, but to have
been carried by the tide across the
bows of the Togo, receiving serious
damage on the port side, hole being
made in the neighborhood of the
fourth after hold, extending from the
deck downward, some five feet wide
at the top to six inches at the bottom,
lOll III hNO pl1ICSs L hO
stern part of the Moi went down till
the upper deck was under water, the
bows being above the water. The
passengers and crew were saved by
vessels which came to their rescue,
but fifty eight of the horses on board
were drowned and six guns went to
the bottom. An official report furn~
ished to the War Department states
that the vessel will not sink any far
ther and that the guns can be recOv-
cred. The depth of water where the
accident occurred is said to be six or
seven fathOms at low tide.
China.
Owing to the destruction Of the best
portion of the Chinese navy, the new
NicerOy Tan Chung Lin, in order to
cut down expenses, has ordered the
closing OF the Whampoa Naval School
AT Canton and the dismissal of the
scholars The school will be re-
opened when ChiUa's navy has been
re-Orgauized and more Junior officers
are required, a most snort sighted
policy and in keeping with the anti
foreign Human party Of which the
new NicerOy is chief.
The Shanghai mandarins have re-
ceived ructiOns from FO0chOw
high provincial authorities to search