Semi=weekly graphic., 1898-11-30
They Demolish the Houses of Chris tians and Massacre With Shock
 ing Brutality.
LITTLE C0REA IN
 A DISTURBED STATE,
Japan k Sending an Army There to Drive Ont the Russians Japanese Spies Filled by Russians
 at Tiea Gsln.

Victoria, B U, Nov a Tho steam. CT Glenoig has arrived nere t ter tenn. psstuous passagA, bringing m interests ing budget of news from the restless east. From Ten Tsin comes newi which shows that Japan has decided t, resist Russian aggression. She is pre-. pairing to drive the ez1rs troops fro. Il Corea, and to this end large detach. ments of troops arc being landed i'll the hermit's kingdom
 News is also at hand from Tien Tsin that large number of Japanese spies have been captured by the Russians at Port Arthur and shot. Seven Japanese, all officers of the imperial Japanese army, were taken, and on their persons were found drawing of the principal for tifications. Buta day elapsed after their capture before they were malched out before firing party of Russians and summarily shot
 The rebels in Chung King, according to advices by the Glenolg, are increas- ing in power daily. The Tung Liang and How Chow railway is completely un. der 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 King have wired to Shanghai and other coast ports, stopping the ship ment of goods. The rebels are daily committing atrocities of every sort and kind. One of their leaders, Vii, went to the governor of Lung Shui Chin and demanded a large sum of money, was refused and the rebels, 1000 strong, plundered the town, killing hundreds.
 Two days afterward they went to Tung Liang and demolished all the houses of the Christians, massacreing those who tried to escape with shocking brutality. They then declared that they had gone to the city and especially to kill foreigners and Christians Others, they said, were not to be molested un- less they offered resistance.
 Two French priests and Methodist missionary went to the magistrates at Yemen for shelter and later the rebels went to the magistrate and asked that they be delivered up. The magistrates refused, but they afterwards relented and allowed the rebels to enter the ye- mon to take the missionaries. The Methodist drew a revolver and resisted and he was at once killed. The two French priests were bound and carried away as prisoners. The rebels then re- tired to Wang Ghoa Tung They are, it is said, seizing and murdering Chris tians almost daily.
 According to the reports from Che- mulpo matters have reached a grave cri- sis in Corea. The emperor is being wor- ried to death with petitions by the Inde- pendence club who are forcing his hand to dismiss some of the higher ministers when the whole phalanx of the Inde- pendence club will invade the palace and take charge of affairs.
 The execution of the unfortunates ac- cused of the attempt to poison the empe- TOT was a ghastly affair. The doomed were taken from the scaffolds on which they were to be executed by mob. Then began one of the most grue- some exhibitions of savagery and blood 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 indigni- ties imaginable were heaped on the man. gled and bleeding remains
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