The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-11-29
ORIENTAL AOvlCES.
Japan VIII Resist the Aggression OF
Russia.

Russia.
Victoria. Il. c., Nov. 2I.-The steamer
Glenogle has arrived here after a tenn
p%estuous passage bringing an interest
ing budget of news from the restless
East. From Tie Tsin comes news
which shows that Japan has decided to
resist Russian aggression. She Is pre-
pairing To drive the cars troops from
Corea. n to this end large detach-
ments of troops are being landed In
the hermit kingdom.
News is also at hand from Tien Tsin
that a large number of japanese pies
have been captured by the Russians at
Port Arthur and shot. Seven japanese,
all officers CT the imperial Japanese
army. were taken and on their persons
were found drawings of the principal
~fortiications. But a day elapsed after
their capture before they were marched
out before a firing party of Russians
and summarily hot.
The rebels in Chung Kiang. accord
Ing to advices by the Glenogle. are in
creasing In power daily. The Ting
Lang N How Chow railway is COM
pletely under their control. They have
compelled well to do 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
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daily committing atrocities Of every
sort n kind. One OF their leaders,
VII. went to the governor Of Lung shut
Chin N demanded a large sum of
money. was refused and the rebels,
1000 strong. plundered the town. kill
ing hundreds. Two days afterwards
they went to Tung LANG and demol-
ished all the houses OF the Christians.
massacreing those who tried to escape
with shocking brutality. They then
declared that they had gon to that
city especially to oppose foreigners and
Christians. Others. they said. were not
to be molested unless they offered re-
sistance. Two French priests and a
missionary OF the c. NJ. $. had gone to
the yemen for shelter. and later the
rebels went TO the magistrate and
asked that they be delivered up. The
magistrates refused. but they after
wards relented and allowed the rebels
to enter the yemen To take the mission
aries. The Methodist drew a revolver
and he was at once killed. The W.
French priests were POUND ard carried
away as prisoners. The rebels then re-
tired TO Wang Choa Tung. They are.
II is said. seizing and numbering Christ
ans almost daily.
According to the reports from Che
mulpo, matters have eache a grave
crisis In Corea. The emperor Is being
worried 10 death with petitions by the
independence clubs. who are forcing his
hand to dismiss some of the higher
ministers. when the whole phalanx Of
the independence clubs will invade the
palace and take charge of the govern
ment's affairs.
The execution of the unfortunates
who attempted To imprison the emperor
was a CHASTITY AFFAIR. The doomed men
were taken from the scaffold on which
they We're TO have been executed by a
mob. Then began n of the most
gruesome exhibitions OF savagery and
blood-thirstiness ever seen in any land.
The condemned men were actually torn
TO pieces by the mob. and even when
life was extinct the most devilish in
dignities imaginable were heaped on
the mangled and bleeding remains.