The herald. [microfilm reel] (Los Angeles [Calif.]) 1893-1900, 1895-01-07
WITH PORT ARTHUR WENT HOPE
When the Walled City Fell
China Wanted Peace.
A Looked for Armlstice Has as Yet
Not Been Declared.
Dominion of Japsn-The Corean
Government Roorgsnized.
By THE HERALD's Leased Wire.


marched with gread rapidity in the las
two weeks. The Chinese hopes OF re
sistance have broken down and o lorna
offer of direct negotiation has beer
made. Some time ago the Japanese
government consented to receive com
munications rendered by China, through
the agencies of the American Legations
in Pekin and Toxic, and Ministers Dur
and DENLY have since served as medi'
ums for conveying the views OF the con-
tending par ties. Little progress was
made until after the capture OF Port
Arthur, when the Chinese at last ap.
peared to realize the necessity for imme'
date action. and they declared theil
readiness to appoint representative oil
sufficient rank and to invest him with
full powers from the central govern
ment.
THIRST FOR MORE GORE.
The choice of an appropriate place OF
meeting remains to be considered. The
Chinese have designated one OF their
own ports, Shanghai, az desirable rem.
| devious, but 10 this Japan will not con-
sent and considerable time has been lost
in discussing the locality, but the move
ment towards peace is proceeding, how
! ever, in apparently good faith on the
| Chinese side and with sincerity on the
| Japanese side. The Japanese ministers
are thoroughly aware that the interests
of their country will be most worthily
served by bringing 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 further conquest on large scale,
and the public feeling is all in favor of
inflicting additional punishment on the
enemy and demanding inordinate terms
OF settlement. Until the proper occasion
for proclaiming an ermistice presents
itself the military operations will con-
tinue with undated vigor. Japan will
not be tempted to relax her aggressive
energy nor will she be automatically
Unanswered out uf any OF the advantages
she holds.
THE ATROCITIES AT PORT ARTHUR.
General Yamagata has returned from
Manchuria, leaving the command OF the
first army to Lieutenant General Nozu,
and is now in attendance upon the en-
peror at Hiroshima. Although I'M
doubleday suffering from illness, it is
believed that the main purpose OF his
recall was to secure his influence in
restraining the incorporate ardor OF the
military faction and facilitating the
arrangements for an early restoration OF
peace. To inquiries whether additional
facts have been received bearing upon
the excuses OF the Japanese soldiers at
Port Arthur, the government replied
that the reports are not completed, and
that it prefers to wait until full record
can be prepared. However, il author
ICES the statement that no new discover.
les OF atrocities committed by the
Chinese or OF acts of treachery
which may have melted the Japanese
troops to revengefui violence will lessen
in the slightest degree its condemnation
of misdeeds which are q stain upon the
national credit, and for which the coun-
try was wholly unpreparsd. The govern
ment believes that discipline was 30
thoroughly established in the army that
no conceivable circums lance could pro-
woke the troops to disorder, much less
to indulgence in ferocity and cruelty. 1t
has suffered bitter 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 had been
confided.
Chinese merchants are returning in
great numbers from their country to the
japanese ports and are seeking regis
tration on the footing OF Japanese sub.
iects. On December 9th an immense
festival was held in Toxic to celebrate
the capture of Port Arthur. With a sim
gle exception this was the only purely
popular demonstration ever attempted
in Japan. The first was in honor OF Gen.
Grant during his memorial visit to the
capital in 1879
UNDER THE MIKADo'S FLAG.
From the army of General Oyama. ON
the Liao-tung peninsula, little news of
importance is received. On December
9th the Japanese entered the walled
town OF Foo Chow, on the rood to New
Chwang. without meeting the resistance
which had been anticipated. The Jan.
enese at once resumed the northward
march, and at last accounts were close
upon Kaiping, a large town only thirty
miles from New Chwang. Wherever
the Japanese Gag is raised the inhab-
itants signify their desire TO live under
its protection. Many OF the most prog
porous citizens of Port Arthur and Kin.
chow, on returning to the homes from
which they had fled during the last
days OF Chinese military occupation,
have posted signs upon their walls civ.
ing their names and addresses as resi-.
dents OF the New Dominion of Japau.n
Since the beginning OF December the
course OF the campaign in central Man.
churia has been completely changed.
For several weeks it has been reported
that the advance columns of the fret
army, which at one time had sent scout
ing parties to within 40 miles of Mouk-
den on the north and New Ohwang on
the southwest, were drawing back
toward General Yamagata's headouar-
ters at Kin Lin. These reports are now
confirmed and are explained by the an.
pesrance on the scene of new and un.
expected Chinese force. A corps of the
army which China permanently main
tains In the Amoor region, on the border
OF Siberia, was detached about the mid
Ole OF November and sent by slow
marches in the direction of Moukdep.
with orders to relieve that city by at.
lacking the Japanese troops believed to
De on the way thither. The new body
OF combatants was understood TO num-
Der from 10000 to 10, 900 and to be con-.
posed wh,lly of hardy Tartsrs,
TARTARs PUE TO FLIGHT.