The San Francisco call., 1896-11-08
Frightful Atrocities in Connec.
tion With the Mohammedan
Rebellion.
DIR. M'KAY DIES OF CHOLERA
Port of Shashih Opened TO Foreign
Commerce-BondS Floated-Canal
TO Be Built.

TOXIC, JAPAN, Oct. 20. - The new
japanese Cabinet has made public dec
laration of its policy, but the terms en-
ployed are not sufficiently explicit to indi-
cate practical programme. Suggestions
are afforded that the ministry incline to-
ward removing all restrictions upon free
dom of speech and public meeting. and
even toward acknowledging the necessity
OF parliamentary support. But no definite
promises are made.
Labor is beginning to take its stand
against capital in Japan. There have been
several strikes lately, and in every case the
employers have agreed to the demands of
the employed. 1t is true that the demands
have not been excessive in any instance.
Indeed, the sharp rise in all commodities
that has taken place in Japan during the
past year iustifies laborers in seeking in
creased pay. But the conflict having COM
menced it is not likely to terminate speed.
lily, especially as manufacturers are begin
ming to be greatly inconvenienced by a
scarcity of hands.
The japanese Government has sue
ceeded in getting its 5 per cent consoli-
dated bonds included among the securi-
ties quoted daily on the London exchange
at premium OF q per cent, which is con-
sidered satisfactory, the quotation in To-
kio being fraction below par.
The japanese Government has decided
to establish several new legations and
consulates in foreign countries. namely
Legations in Hawaii, Mexico and Brazil,
and consulates in Antwerp. Sydney, New
chwang and Chicago. Consulates- Gen.
eral already exist in Hawaii and Mexico,
but they will now be raised to the rank Of
legations under charges d 'affaires.
The number of banks of all kinds exist
ing in Japan at the end of Septem Der was
1858, with an aggregate capital OF 22S 70s,-
044 yen.
A company has been formed for the
purpose of cutting a canal across Japan
from the Bay Of Osaka to the Sea of Japan.
The whole cutting will be 221% miles and
the cost IL million yen.
case of cholera terminating with
shocking suddeness occurred at Wuchang
on the 2lst of September. DR.. MacKay,
VINO had been working for Eve years in
connection with the London Missionary
Society, was struck by the disease in the
early morning and before twenty-four
hours had passed life was extinct. Mr.
MacKay's work among the Chinese is
spoken OF in terms of the highest praise.
The port OF Shashih, in the province of
on October L. The opening of this port
was enc of the stipulations of the Shimo-
noseki treaty.
Terrible accounts come to hand of in
cidents connected with the Mohamme6an
rebellion in Kan-su. 1t is estimated that
10000 Mohammedans, chiefly women.
children and old men, have died of hun
ger or been frozen to death in the hills
and mountains. Those that have sub
mitted number $4,000, women ana chill
dren for the most part. Thirty or forty
thousand renamed under arms among
the hills IN the southeastern district in
the middle of the summer. The business
of seizing and beheading the insurgents
was conducted with wholesale vigor so
soon as their strength had been broken in
any district.
An average of sixteen had been decapi.
tated daily for two weeks in Shining on
June 16, and as 5000 heads remained to
come off, the sanguinary carnival was ex-
pected to go on for an indefinite time.
Crowds of people watched the executions,
and it is easy 10 conceive the demoraliza-
ton that must have resulted from such
prolonged intimacy with bloodshed.
The first attempt to form a political
party openly in Korea has been summar-
lily nipped in the bud. The protector.
kwak ii of Chemulpo. speedily found
himself en- route for Seoul under arrest.