The herald., 1898-11-29
ThE RUSSIAN ADVANCE
WILL MEET WITH RESISTANCE
FROM JAPAN
THE CZAR'S TROOPS IN COREA
To Be Driven From the Hermit King
dom if the japanese Soldiers
Can Do It
Associated Press Special Wire


VICTORIA, b. c., Nov. 2S-The steamer
Glenoble has arrived here after a tempest
uous passage, bringing an interesting budget
Of news from the restless East. From lien
Tsin comes news which shows that Japan
has decided to resist Russian aggression.
She is preparing to drive the Cars troops
from Corea, and to this end large detach-
ments of troops are being landed in the her.
nit kingdom.
News is also at hand from lien Tsin that
large number of japanese spies have been
captured by the Russians at Port Arthur
and shot. Several japanese officers, all Of
the Imperial Japanese army, were taken,
and on their persons were found drawings
of the principal Notifications. But day
elapsed after their capture before they were
marched out before firing party OF Rus-
slams and summarily shot.
The rebels in Chung King, according to
advices by the Glenoble, are rising daily.
The Tung Liang and How Chow Railway
is completely under their control They
have compelled well-to people to provide
them with money and provisions and are
making weapons day and night. Merchants
in Chung Kiang have wired to- Shanghai
and other ports stopping the shipment OF
goods. The rebels are daily committing
atrocities of every sort and kind. One OF
their leaders, VII went to the Governor OF
Lung Shut Chin and demanded a large sum
of money, was refused, and the rebels, 1000
strong, plundered the town, killing hun
dreds.
Two days afterward they went to Tung
Liang and demolished all the houses OF the
Christians, massacring those who tried to es-
cape with shocking brutality. Then then
declared that they had gone to that city
especially to oppose foreigners and Christ
ians. Others, they said, were not to be mo-
Tested unless they offered resistance.
Two French priests and missionary of
the C. NJ. S. had. gone to the magistrates
at Yemen for shelter, and late in the after
noon the rebels went to the magistrates and
asked that they be delivered. The magis-
trates refused, but they afterwards relented
and allowed the rebels to enter the Yemen
to take the missionaries. The Methodist
drew a revolver and he was at once killed.
The French priests were bound and carried
away as prisoners The rebels then retired
to Wang Choa Tung. They are, it is said,
seizing and numbering Christians almost
daily.
According to the reports from Chemulpo
matters have reached a grave crisis in Co
req The Emperor is being worried to death
with petitions by the Independence Club,
who are forcing his hand to dismiss some
of the higher ministers, when the whole
phalanx of the Independence Club will in
wade the palace and take charge of the
governments affairs.
The execution of the unfortunates accused
of the attempt to poison the Emperor was
a ghastly affair. The doomed were taken
from the scalfold on which they were to
have been executed by mob. Then began
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savagery and bloodthirstness ever seen in
any land. The condemned men were actu-
ally torn to pieces by the mob, and even
when life was extinct the most devilish in
dignites imaginable were heaped on the
mangled and bleeding remains.