The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1895-08-18
.Japan's Representative in Pc
king LnsuIted by Chinese
Officials.
APOLOGIES QUICKLY FOLLOWED
Missionary Sheffield Escaped Death
by Feigning After Being Seri-
=: ously Wounded.
Correspondence OF The United Press.

TOXIC. JAPAN, July 30.-Much anxiety
. is felt in japan about the rice crop. The
prosperity of the country depends in a
great part upon the quantity of the rice
harvested. An average years yield repre-
sents about 500, 100000 yen,
Anything short of that outcome affects
D.; the purchasing power of the provincials,
and the result is felt in every branch OF
business The weather this season has
l. been so unfavorable up TO thu present that
already q deficiency of 20 per cent is Az
ticipated in the crop, which means loss
Of 90, 600 yen.
PAX Yongho, ex-Miuister OF Home AT
fairs in Korea, left Yckohama on the 30th
OF July for the United States. 1t had been
his intention to proceed 20 America when
he fed from Seoul, but the state of his
health on arriving in Japan prevented the
immediate carrying out of his design.
DR.. Kitazato, the great japanese bacteria
logical specialist, having, however, de.
clared that. PAX might make the voyage
without danger the refugee determined tC
cross to San Francisco st once. This sec
ond exile seems to remove him perma-
nently from the field of active Korean
politics.
The Korean students-150 in number
that recently proceeded to Japan and took
. up their abode at the school presided over
by Mr. Eukusawa, have left the school Ell
massc, and located themselves at the
Korean legation. 1t was at first alleged
that they objected to the severe discipline
of the school, but the truth seems to be that
Mr.. Fukuzawa having harbored the re
-iugce PAX Yongho, the students feared to
incur the displeasure of their own Govern
ment by remaining in the same compound
with q prescribed rebel. PAX having now
left Japan, these youths will doubtless re-
turn to the arms OF their alma mater.
The agitation fomented in Japan by
certain sections of the opposition, who
seek to convert the surrender of the Lao
tung Peninsula into weapon for attacking
the Cabinet, is subsiding. The politicians
are evidently not in touch with the spirit
of the time which prompts constructive
rather than destructive measures, and aims
chiefly at building up such powerful
naval and military organization as shall
secure the country against having to yield
to foreign dicsation hereafter.
The new japanese representative in
Peking had not been long at his post when
he was required to protest against fresh
display of the insolent conservatism fol
which the Chinese are notorious. A GER
tain official named Kwan Ting-kien adj
dressed to the throne a memorial urging
the adyisahility of curtailing administra-
tive expenditures so that the war indem-
nifty to Japan might be paid without re-
course to foreign aid. In the course OF the
memorial he called the japanese "insulaI
barbarians," and the document was pub
lished verbatim in the Government Ga
zette. OF course the Japanese Minister
protested, and of course the Tsung-l
Yamen apologized. But the incident
shows how little China has learned from
the war. -
=: Another foreigner has been the victim O.
.murderous assault in China. On tn,
=. morning of Sunday, July 7, as the Rev
Mr. Sheffield of the American Board Mis-.
:. sion. was returning to his house outside
Tungchow, after having performed re.
iigious service at his church within the
town, he was set upon by two men, one
armed with file sharpened at both end s
the other with Ratchet. The missionary
" received thirty-four wounds, several O
them very severe, ana only escaped death
by feigning it.
Several persons witnessed the brutal as
saurt, but no one responded to MIR. Shef
fields appeals for aid. Afterward, as hc
lay bleeding but still conscious on the
road, the same Indifference was shown by
the passers-by. Ultimately a master
workman, who had been warned too late
of what was projected and had hastenee
with tive others to prevent it. arrived upoI
the scene and carried the wounded man tt
his residence, where he now lies appar
emily progressing fayorably.
=. The moving spirit in the outrage was 6
carpenter, a man evidently half crazy
who, having been prevented by Mr.. Shelf
=. field some time previously from doing bod
lily harm to mason, had resolved to be
avenged. on the foreigner. He persuaded
oneo of his brothers to join him in the at
tack, but another brother refused to take
part in it and gave information to th,
master-workman by whom the reverend
gentleman. was carried home. The two
ruffians are'in custody.
Tungchow is town on the Peiho, som,
sixteen miles from Peking. 1t is the place
. where travellers by river from Tientsin tt
Picking leave their boats to perform tn,
rest of the journey overland.
=. The Japanese are advancing southwark
in Formosa steadily, but slowly. TIL,
difficulties to be overcome are immense
The mountain streams generally easy t.
navigate, are now converted into violen
torrents; the plains, through which muci
of the route lies abound with rivers anC
irrigation canals, which have been 81
swollen by the summer rains that the dis
:. trict is converted into a muddy morass
the heat and damp are terribly trying, anC
altogether it is probable that before tn,
Japanese cover the 200 miles separatin,
Taipeh from Tainan they will have sui
fered severely.
Departure of Noted Catholics.