The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-25
Chinese Officials Killed and
Soldiers Quickly
Routed.
REWARDED BY THE MIKADO
Honors Conferred Upon the Men of
Japan Who Conducted the
Big War.
Correspondence of the United Press.l

TOXIC, JAPAN, Aug. 10.-While the
Canadian Pacific steamer Empress of ia
pan was lying at Annoy on July % an ex-
plosion of coal gas occurred on board and
five Chinese firemen, who happened to be
shoveling coal into the bunkers at the
time, were so badly burned that one OF
them died shortly afterward and four had
to be left in the Shanghai General Hospital.
4 Monammedan revolt in kansu is as
Stunning serious dimensions. The trouble
originated in dispute between two sects.
1t was temporarily quelled by the exer-
tions of Mohammedan general, but sub
sequently, during his absence at Picking,
whittier be went in command of contin-
gent of his fellow-believers during the
recent war, his family were muir
dered and his possessions seized.
BY and by some Chinese officials, at
tempting to arbitrate, were killed
and Chinese soldiers proceeding to punish
this violence were utterly routed. In May
General Tung, the Kashgarian commander
in chief, set out from Picking with an army
of q, eco to restore order. He defeated the
rebels in two battles and saved Lanchou,
the capital of the province. But even with
the aid of the territorial troops, some 90
600 strong, he could not cope fully with the
enemy and large re- endorsements are be-
ing sent from Peking, Shensi and Hupeh.
The rebels are said to number 100000, in
Guiding 10000 Buddhists who have been
stirred to revolt by famine. Should the
Mussulman population in Shensi also take
up arms, the affair may severely tax the
resources of the central Government.
The Emperor of Japan has rewarded the
principal personages responsible for the
conduct of the recent war. Count Ito,
Minister of State; Field Marshal Count
Yamagata, who commanded the first army
up to the fall of Fenghwang; Admiral
Count Saigo, Minister OF State for the
Navy, and Field Marshal Count Oyama,
who commanded the second army at Port
Arthur and Wei-hai-wei, have all been
raised to be Marquises.
Field Marshal Viscount Nodzu. who
commanded the first army from the fall of
Fenghwang to the battle of Tienchwangtai,
and Admiral Viscount Kabayama, COM
mander-in-chief of the navy, have been
made Counts; and Lieutenant General
Kawakami, vice chief of the staff, and Vice
Admiral Ito, who commanded the naval
squadrons throughout, have been raised to
the peerage with the title of Viscount. All
these distinguished men have also been
decorated with high orders.
A disaster attended with heavy loss of
life occurred off Kagoshima on the morn
ing of the oath Of July. A Japanese
owned steamer, the Mishima Maru, leav-
ing Nagasak on the previous day for
Kagoshima, encountered fierce gale, and
in endeavoring to run into shelter struck a
rock and went to pieces almost immedi-
ately. She carried eighteen passengers
and crew of nineteen. Only eight men,
including one of the passengers, succeeded
in swimming ashore.
The story of anti-missionary outrages in
Szechuan is not totally black page there
are some spots of light i'll the record. Miss
Hol OF the China Inland Mission describes
how, when the house in which she and
two other ladies resided was attacked by
the mob, man with drawn sword ap-
peared at the door, and while engaged
sharpening his weapon on stone warned
the rioters that the women were good folk
and that he meant to defend them. The
crowd fell back, and one of the ladies, at
tended by a Chinese maid, made her
escape to the yamen, only to be refused
admittance. But the Chinese attendant
raised loud cutlery, wailing that unless
the officials gave them refuge they would
die at the gates, and at length they gained
entry. The officials, however, were
too terrified to send snccor to the
other two ladies. They, also, owed
their safety to the man with the
sword, who procured chairs for
them and got them to the yamen. He ap-
pears to have remained incognito. An
other missionary, escaping from his burn
ing home, entered the house of Chinese
doctor, who swathed him in bandages, COW
cred his head with Chinese hood, and in
the guise of moribund Chinaman placed
him on the shoulders of coolies and sent
him to the yamen. Yet another mission
airy reached the out-station, where his wife
awaited him, by Disgusting himself as an
official en- route to meet the incoming
Viceroy, the real officials making him up
with blue glasses, long boots, uniform
cap, and so forth. But against the comfort
inspired by these evidences of native good
will has to be placed the fact that
although a month and a half has elapsed
since the riots took place, many mis-
sonaries at out-stations in Szechuan still
remain without protection, EXPOSED to mob
violence at any moment. The whole prob
lem of foreigners residence in the interior
of China becomes more and more perplex-
ing as years go by. AS for the Viceroy OF
Szechuan, Liu Pingchang, who is charged
with direct responsibility for the riots, he
doubtless supposed that, beng on the eve
of surrendering his viceroyalty, all incon-
venient consequences might be avoided Sc
far as concerned himself. But he reck-