The Anaconda standard., 1895-03-24
SIEGE OF NEW CHWANG
Details of the Most Recent Victory Of
the japanese.
EIGHTEEN HUNDRED KILLED
While Suing for Peace the En-
peror Is StilI Talking War-A
Budget Of News From
the Orient.

TOXIC. March 9. Per Steamer Belgic,
via San Francisco. March 23.-The details
of the capture of New Chwang have been
received. After n contest of several hours
tho Chinese were driven toward New
Chwang, within the fortifications of which
city they established themselves appar-
emily determined to defend the position
in earnest. An attack was made on
March 4. Two points, at the north and
east were assaulted at dawn, and ut 10
o'clock the gates were forced and breaches
made in tho walls. The resistance was
stubborn and it was not until at IL o'clock
at night that the struggle ended. Eighteen
hundred of the Chinese were killed before
the streets were cleared and victory was
proclaimed. Five hundred prisoners we're
taken and the balance OF the beaten
army escaped in the darkness. Sixteen
large guns and an immense quantity of
other war material were taken.
Ii Hung Chang's appointment as peace
ambassador is now an established fact.
An impression prevails that Japan has al
lowed some indication of her intentions
to be conveyed to the Chinese govern
ment and that Ii will come prepared to
accept any terms not utterly ruinous or
disgraceful. Count Ito and Viscount
Mutsu will, as before, be designated to
conduct the negotiations on the Japanese
side. The question whether the proceed
ings at Simoneski will modify the Japa-
nese plans to the extent of preventing the
occupation of Pekin is earnestly dis
cussed. So far as can be foreseen the
preparations for continuing the war will
not be interrupted while the conferences
are in progress. The Chinese are also
keepingin mind the possible necessities
of thc future. New guns are daily
mounted at the Taku forts, the number
now amounting to 28i and fresh lines of
defense are constantly added to the en-
vironment of Picking. The en-
peror's extraordinary scheme of in
voking opinions of high provincial
officials as TO the propriety of prolonRing
the contest is prosecuted as assiduously
as if no idea of suing for peace had ever
been entertained. Memorials are re-
ceived from all parts of the empire, gem
orally favorinR an olrer of any
amount of indemnity, but strenu-
ously opposing a cession of territory. BY
way of showing that China, at her lowest
| fortunes, is still capable of insolent
bravado, the official Peking Gazette, in
the same issue which announces Ii Hung
| Chang's errand, coins a fresh epthet of
contumely for the Japanese. They are
called "wo-ko," said to gnify "baboon
bandits" Japan has given proof that she
wants no possessions in the province of
| Shan Tung. Her interest in that region
ceased with the capture of Wei-Hai-Wei.
| OF the 5.O00 soldiers sent to seize the
naval station, only enough remain to hold
the works on Liu Kung island. The rest
have all gone back to Lao Lung, after de-
moiishing tho entire chain of shore forti-
| fications.
/ The remains of Admiral Ting were sub
jected to a gross indignIty upon their ar
rival at Tien Tsin. The head was cut off
and exposed at tho gate of the city Jail.
| One of the assassins of Corean Minister
of State KIM, who was prominent leader
of the reform party, has confessed that he
| was employed to commit the crime by the
Tai-Won-Kun. This latest revelation of
the old princes iniquity appears to have
touched even his hardened sense of
shame. The empress of Japan starts
from Toxic March IL to join the emperor
at Hiroshima. On the 9th she visits the
navy yard at Yokohama to view the
launching of a steel cruiser of 5000 tons,
the building of which has just been COM
| pleted.