The Kootenai herald. [volume] (Kootenai, Idaho) 1891-1904, 1895-01-12
Diplomats Anxious TO Realize the
Fruits Of Victory.
A BLOT ON JAPAN'S FAME
Meanwhile the Japan Army Has Been
Giving the Tartar Warriors
Good Beating.

san Francisco. Jan. 6.-The steam
snip China arrived today from Yoko-
hama, bringing the following advices:
Toxic, Japan, Dec. 21-All trust
worthy signs point to a speedy negotia-
ton for peace Events have marched
with great rapidity in the last two
weeks. The Chinese hopes of resistance
have broken down and a formal offer
of direct negotiations has been made
Little progress was made until after the
capture of Port Arthur, when the Chi
nese at last appeared to realize the
necessity for immediate action and they
declared their readiness to appoint a
representative of sufficient rank and in
vest him with full powers from the cen
trail government
The Japanese ministers are thorough
ly aware that interest in their country
will be most worthily served by bring
ing the war to an end with the least
possible delay. The task before them
is not an easy one. for the strong and
active military class is bent upon fur
Their conquest on large scale. and pub
lie feeling is all i'm favor of infiicting ad-
ditional punishment on the enemy and
demanding inordinate terms of settle
ment Until the proper occasion for
proclaiming an armstice presents itself,
military operations will be continued
with undated vigor. Japan will not be
tempted to relax her aggressive energy,
nor will she be automatically ma
neouvred out of any Of the advantages
she holds.
General Yamagata has returned from
Manchuria, leaving the command of the
first army to Lieutenant General Nozu,
t.
peror at Hiroshima. Although undoubt-
edly suffering from Illness it is believed
that the main purpose of his recall
was TO secure his influence in restrain
ing the Incorporate order of military
faction and facilitating arrangements
for an early restoration Of peace.
BLOT ON JAPANS FAME.
To inquiries as to whether additional
facts have been received bearing upon
the excuses of the Japanese soldiers
at Port Arthur, the government replies
that reports are not completed, and that
= prefers to wait until full record can
prepared. However, it authorizes
re statement that no new discoveries
atrocities committed by the Chinese
of acts of treachery which may have
lcited Japanese troops to revengeful
lolence will lessen in a slightest degree
us condemnation of misdeeds, which are
stain upon the national credit and for
which the country was totally unpre-
pared.
The government believed that disci-
pine was so thoroughly established in
the army that no conceivable circum-
stance could provoke the troops to dis
order, much less to indulgence in feroci-
nd hoc
disappointment in the discovery that
the high standard it hoped to maintain
without blemish has been forgotten on
one occasion of fierce excitement and
passion by men to whom the empires
prestige has been confided.
Chinese merchants are returning in
great numbers from their own country
TO Japanese ports and are seeking regis
tration on a footing on Japanese sub
jects.
On December 9 an immense festival
was held in Toxic to celebrate the cap
ture of Port Arthur With a single eX-
ception this was the only purely pOpu-
lar demonstration ever attempted in
Japan. The first was in honor of Gen
eral Grant during his memorable visit
10 the capital in 1879.
From the army of General Oyama on
Lao Tung peninsula, little news of i'm
portance is received. On November 3
the japanese entered the walled town
Of Foo Chow, on the road to New
Chwang, without meeting the resistance
which had been anticipated. The Jap
anese at once resumed their northward
march. and at latest accounts were close
upon Kaiping, a large town only 80
miles from New Chwang. Wherever
ha T.. 10. bo fnh a
tants signify their desire 20 live under
fte urotaction