The herald., 1895-01-22

wan on board the mansof- war, II he
wished them 70 do 80. The passage OF
the small boat wsB attended with con.
siderable difficulty, az wind and waves
we're high; and O few minutes after the
three Americans had boarded the Hi-yei
Kan, the small boat foundered. The
crew Of four Chinese we're saved by the
exertions OF the officers and men Of tbs
Hi-ysi, although the boat wes lost. Ac.
cording 20 the writer, "tha conduct OF
tbs Japanese toward these Chinese sail
ora was niost coinmende able. They could
not have exerted themselves more for
their own people. After getting the
Chinese on board, they took off their
wet clothes. wrapped them in blankets,
and gays them reotoretives.
AS showing further the character OF
the Japanese, the reply OF the com.
nander in chief Of che Japan esq forces
to the request of the party to render
hospital service TO che wounded Chinese
IL instructive. He wrote: 81 sppreci-
ate the humans object of your voyage to
carry the wounded soldiers TO Tien
Tsin. in order to be teksn care of by
your society At the same time. l have
to call your attention to the plain fact
that the wounded enepoy's soldiers, how
ever humanely they may be treated by
tina army in whose hands they are, are
after all prisoners of var, 60 that the
carrying OF them from land occupied
by one OF the belligerent srmies to the
country OF the other cannot be called a
neutral act. For this reason, am sorry
to have 10 reject your offer. Lst this
denial, however. be joined with the as
auranoe that 1t 10 the rule of our army to
kolr II Ln Ioa azlI;oro NTH
out distiction OF enemy or not enemy, so
that the wounded Chinese soldiers are
being actually taken care Of In our own
field hospitals, and ask the gentlemen
to have no anxiety about the matter"
REPORTED ATROCITIES EXAGGERATED.
Writing Of the situation "a he found
it at Port Arthur, Mr.. Tenney says: II
was amazed TO find that the supposed
invincible fortress had been surrendered
to the Japanese almost without strug-
gle; and all the guns, ammunition and
stores passed over intact. II was truly
a shameful performance. After that |
have no hope of the Chinese"
Regarding the alleged atrocities com.
mitted by the Japanese at the capture
OF Port Arthur, he found not the slightest
evidence. II WAS plain that the reports
had been greatly exaggerated. The Chi
nese wounded we're enjoying the same
surgical attention So that given to the
Japanese, while the evidence of carnage,
such as the headless bodies of the Jap.
anese. left in the roads by the Chinese
when retreating, had been removed,
there wss nothing to indicate that the
Japanese, inoited to cruelty by the sight
of the mutilated bodieu of their former
comrades, had been guilty of equally
offensive conduct. The story Of un-
speskable outrsges on the part of the
Japanese may therefore, in the light OF
the testimony OF this member of Ii
Hung Changes own household, be set
down as without foundation.
Mr.. Tenney. while cognizant OF the
peace negotiations pending, is not san-
guins OF the result. He IL confident that
the conditions insisted upon by Japan
will not be considered seriously by China,
and expresses the ex pectation that the
conference will be unproduotive Of re-
suits. II expect the Japanese to ad-
vance on Pekin," says he, "before there
ia peace."
Coming from q man in close oommus
Dication with Ii Hung Chang. and in
possession OF his entire confidence, this
expression of opinion may perhaps be
taken as that entertained by the vice
roy himself. Mr.. Tenney has enjoyed
most substantial evidences of personal
esteem since hiN residence in China,
being favored in many ways by Ii Hung
Chang and bic ministers. For more
than year acting consul at Tien Tsin
for the United States, he has had ample
opportunity for becoming acquainted
with the trend of official sentiment and
the weaknesses of the oriental chars
acter.