The herald., 1898-02-14
DRUNKEN JAPS
Make Trouble on Oriental
Steamers
LITTLE BROWN SAIL0RMEN
WILL NOT TAKE ORDERS FROM
EUROPEANS
The Shanghai Recorder Is Anxious
That China Shall Be Reformed
But Deprecates Partition
Associated Press Special Wire


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 instruction OF
surveillance from European officers, and
reserving an especial grudge for Euro
pean passengers. Several cases have
been reported where officers were
marked for attack by the japanese and
warned to retire from the service, the
retention of their positions being in
variably followed by a murderous at
| tack from ambushed Japanese ene-
mics. A case in point is reported from
| the Nyk liner, Hakata Maru. from Japan,
via Hong Kong, for England. There were
| rty-eight passengers on board the
| liner, many of whom were repeatedly at
| tackled by the Japanese crew whenever
| they left their own staterooms after
nightfall. On New Years day, the Tele-
graph says, all the Japanese sailors and
walters, mad drunk" and clad only In
breech clouts, made an organized at
tack on the English officers and passen-
gers of the Hakata Maru. The Japs were
armed with knives, crowbars and belay-
| ing pins, and brutally beat the chief en-
gineer and his third assistant and at
tackled a passenger, Thomas Hall, in his
berth, cutting his head open with mar
linspike According to the account of
the Telegraph, the officers and most of
the passengers were driven to the bridge,
where, unarmed, forty Englishmen kept
one hundred drink-maddened Japanese
at bay during the entire night by brand
ishing their walking
Koyosu Shun, founder Of the Yomiuri
Shimbun, one of the oldest papers in
Japan, in 1874 died on January 14th, aged
63. He 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 1878.
Kenichi Onoye, who is under arrest in
San Francisco for the embezzlement of
81, 900 yen from Favre Brandt of Osaka,
is also suspected of forgery, and the for
eign office has communicated with Min
lister Hoshi with regard to his extradi-
ton.
with France has been exchanged, the
date of the standard and conventional
tariffs will be notified to the foreign
powers and the tariffs themselves put
into operation. The receipts for the COM
ing fiscal year, commencing April 1st,
are estimated to show an increase of
5000 900 yen.
The Hochi Shimbun says that a COM
o,,;<. 1xv
the Japanese government to the foreign
powers, with the object of placing For
mosa beyond the pale of the new treaty,
but as only Great Britain and one other
power consented thereto, Japan decided
to carry out the new treaties in Formosa
also.
The celebration of the coming to age
of the crown prince, Haruno Miya, which
was postponed last year owing to the
court mourning of the late empress dow
ager, will be held in March.
Japans foreign trade during the month
of December last was as follows. Ex-
ports, 19,275,762 yen; imports, lilo, 103
yen. The exports of gold and silver bull
lion amounted to 6,53O,962 yen, and the
imports to 676,1S2 yen.
CHINESE AFFAIRS
The Shanghai Recorder deplores any
partition of China, which, it says, will
certainly be unfavorable to missionary
work, adding that it will be sad thing,
not only for China, but for all concerned,
if the powers take any such action, pre-
dieting that partition would be the be-
gining of unending strife and bloodshed.
The Recorder calls upon Great Britain
to interfere and say that China shall
not be divided, but that she shall be re-
formed and saved, predicting that in
such interference England will have the
support of Japan and the active acQui-
escence of the United States.
Three Chinese We're hanged simulta-
neously in the Victoria Jail at Hong
Kong on January 18th, the drop being
made to accommodate all three and the
trio falling through together. The exc
cuted 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 Shang-
hal states that the year 1897 was one of
extraordinary vicissitudes to 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 caT% a stringency in
the Chinese money MARKET, the result
being widespread disaster among the
cotton dealers, very few importers es-
Gaping heavy losses. The turning point
is believed to have been reached, how
ever, the year 1898 opening with an i'm
proved demand and an increased num-
ber of transactions, although Shang-
hal jobbers can hardly congratulate
themselves on the prices obtained.
The chartered transport Jelunga, from
HongKong, arrived at Singapore on Jan
uary 9th, bringing the first battalion of
the Prince of Wales Own, and taking
away the following day the departing
rifle brigade.
England is negotiating with China to
open Yuen Chau Flu, in the province of
Hu Nan, as treaty port, and is negoti-
ating also on the subject of the naviga-
tion of inland waters.
The Chinese government has paid the
agreed indemnity of $4,000 to M. Lyau-
det, the Frenchman kidnapped by Ton
! quin pirates in 1895.
The new years audience for the for
eign ministers had been fixed for Feb
ruary 18th, and the banquet by the
tsung Ii yamen will be given the fol-
lowing day. Owing to the long delay