The Indianapolis journal., 1895-04-10
WHAT JAPANESE PAPERS SAY.
Some Want the sIfI<ndo's Fling Hoisted
I'm PekInx-A Chinese SnGe's scheme.

In Pekinx-A Chinese SaEe's Scheme.
WASHINGTON, April 9.--Japanese mail
advices up to March 16 received here show
that in the native press the peace mission
of Ii Hung Chang occupies the leading
place. AS they attach much Importance to
the present embassy, they state their ideas
OF the terms of peace more definitely than
heretofore. yet advance nothing new.
While some journals are moderate in their
demands others declare in unequiyocal terms
that peace is an impossibility until the flag
Of the rising sun floats over Picking The
Mainichi. in a rather phlanthropic manner,
advocates the annexation of part of con-
tinentaI China, not merely for two usually
advanced reasons, namely: To secure the
independence of Corea and the maintenance
of peace in the East, but for two others
that 1t would be contrary to the principles
of humanity to suffer the Chinese in the
newly occupied districts to fall again under
the barbarous rule of China and that it
would be regrettable in the interests of the
Chinese in general, II, afte. the war. they
did not have enlightened Japanese near by
to instruct them IN the erts and sciences
The effects on japanese trade of the sign
ing of a treaty of peace are. already being
Inense impetus. 1t is asserted, there can
be no question, though it has been found
check @ That was % Predicted M dc on mac account % Of the
war, but its total volume in money value
In 1894 was very nearly 80 per cent. over
some articles the war has done some injury
to the foreign. trade, but on most it has
increase in the export trade of 1894 was in
the case OF raw silk, of which the value of
the the quantity sent anroad o o exceeded that for
An excellent scheme for the annihilation
Of the japanese. submitted by a sage Of
newspaper. The scheme was originated in
answer the proclamation Of the Governor Of
for the destruction Of T all the s'as Jap
ary sode Should 5s ARMED wah
The pole ana the bucket should be held
grasped by the right. On charging down
upon the foe, the buckets should be hurled
powder and render their guns useless The
bamboo poles should then be thrust be-
twesn The. TIE legs la of the s, enemy ny and given "a
topple over in confusion. After that it
would be an easy matter to finish aI Off the
Tie Governor 1t appears. did not take kind
ly TO the suggestions made and, as the story
goes, drove the pseudo sage from his pres
Evidently the stoutest resistance which
vances sna on Pekng VIII meet says one @ Of
Ii Ii Hung Inass9c chang hang soldiers nor BY the
dan soldiers of China. This was indicated
by the conduct of General Tsao at the bs-t-
tlo OF Phyong Yang. He acquitted himself
as true general should, while Yei and
the other Chinese generals disgraced them
selves by their pusillanimity. General
Tsao's conduct at Phyong Yang and Adj
mira1 Ting's at Wei-Hai-Wei were, the
paper says, the solitary bright spots in
China's dark record during the war. Tsao
was a patriarch of the Chinese Moham-
medans. A story. has been told that when
district his wife declared that she would
collect some 5000 Amazons and avenge the
death of her husband and that the Moham-
medans shared her resolution