The Anaconda standard. [volume] (Anaconda, Mont.) 1889-1970, 1898-02-14
HELD THE JAPS At BAY
Mad Drunk, Two Hundred At
tack Forty Englishmen.
THE PARTITION OF CHINA
1t Would Mean the Beginning of Blood
shed and Strife-Great Britain Called
Upon to Interfere-D Disaster
for Cotton Dealers.

San Francisco, Feb. 13.-The Oriental
and Occidental Steamship eompany's
Gaelic arrived to-day from Hong Kong.
Yokohama and Honolulu, bringing the
following Oriental advices:
The Hong Kong Telegraph says that
continual trouble is being reported from
vessels manned by Japanese crews, the
Japanese resenting any instructions or
surveillance from European officers and
reserving an especial grudge for Eu-
ropean passengers. Several cases have
been reported whereby officers were
marked for attack by the Japanese and
warned to withdraw from the service.
the retention of their positions inevi-
tably being followed by murderous
attack from an ambushed Japanese en-
emy. A case in point is reported from
the n. Y. X. liner Hakata Maru, from
Japan via Hong Kong for England.
There We're 3S passengers on board the
liner. many of whom were repeatedly
attacked by the Japanese crew when
ever they left their own staterooms
after nightfalI.
On New Years day. the Telegraph
says. all the Japanese sailors and wait
ers. mad drunk" and clad only in
breach clouts. made an organized at
tack on the English officers and pass
engers of the Hakata Maru The Jap
anese We're armed with knives. crow
bars and Delaying pins, and brutally
beat the chief engineer and his third
assistant and attacked a passenger.
Thomas Hall, in his berth, cutting his
head open with a marlin spike. Ac-
cordng to the account in the Tele-
Nh tIr... .affSA ne hA
passengers were driven to the bridge,
where unarmed. 40 Englishmen kept
200 japanese at bay during the entire
night by brandishing their walking
sticks.
The Shanghai Recorder deplores any
partition of China. which, it says, will
certainly be aafavorable to missionary
work. adding that 1t will be sad thing
not only for China. but for all con-
cerned If the powers undertake such
action, predicting that partition would
be the beginning of continuous strife
and bloodshed. The Recorder calls
upon Great Britain to interfere. and
says that China shall not be divided.
but that she shall be reformed and
saved, predicting that in such inter
ference England would have the sup
port of Japan and the active acquies-
cence of the United States.
Three Chinese We're hanged stimuli
taneously in the Victoria jail at Hong
Kong on Jan. II. the drop being made
to accommodate all three. they falling
together. The executed men were
members of an armed gang of shop
thieves. and in raiding a store killed a
Chinese employe. The criminals were
disbanded soldiers.
The annual cotton report from
Shanghai states that the year 1897 was
one of extraordinary vicissitudes 10
those in this trade. The year began with
an enormous stock of unsold goods on
hand. Prices declined steadily until The
end of August. Then came n string
ency in the Chinese money market, the
result being widespread disaster among
the cotton dealers, very few importers
escaping heavy losses. The turn
ing point is believed to have been
reached. however. the year 1898 be-
ginning with improved demand and an
increased number of transactions, al
though Shanghai jobbers can hardly
congratulate themselves on the prices
obtained.
The chartered transport Jetunga.
from Hong Kong, arrived at Singapore
on Jan. 6, bringing the First battalion,
Prime of Wales own. and taking away
the following day the departing rifle
brigade.
Koyasu Shun. founder of the Yomiuri
Shimbun. one of the oldest papers iii
Japan, In 1874. died on Jan. Is aged 63
lie was formerly junior secretary of
the foreign office. He started the first
mutual life insurance association in
Japan, and among other achievements
edited the best Anglo-Japanese diction-
airy Of it's day in 1873.
kenichi Oloye, who is under arrest
in San Francisco for the embezzlemcnt
of 2T,000 yen from Favre Brandt of
Osaka. is also suspected of forgery.
and the foreign office has communicate
ed with Minister Hoshi with regard TO
his extradition.
As soon as the ratification treaty
with France has been exchanged tEr
date OF the standard and conventional
tariffs will be notified TO the foreign
powers and the tariffs themselves put
into operation. The receipts Tor the
aming year commen.IE= april l are
therefore estimated at All increase of
5000. 900 ven.
The Hochi Shimlun says that a conf
munication was originally made by the
Japanese government TO the foreign
powers with the object of placing For
mosa beyond the reach of a new treaty,
but as only Great Britain and one other
power consented thereto. Japan de-
cided to carry out the new treaties in
Formosa also.
The celebration of the coming of age
Of Crown Prince Haruno- Miya. which
was postponed last year owing TO the
court mourning for the late Empress
Dowager. will be held in March
japan's foreign trade during the
month OF December last was as fol-
lows: Exports, 19,275.762 yen: imports,
1f140,l03 yen. The exports Of gold and
silver bullion amounted TO 6.53p, 362 yen
and the imports to 676.lS2 yen.