The record-union., 1898-02-14
Japanese Crews Hate European
Officers.
They Resent Their Instructions and Sur
VeiIlanCe.
Officers VINO Are Warned and Do
Not Withdrawn From the Ser
vice Murderously Attacked
Officers and European Passen-
gers Attacked by the Crew OF a
Steamez-Vicissitu of the
Cotton Trade Last Year.

SAN FRANCISCO Feb. 13.-The ..
& Q. Steamship Companys steamer
Gaelic arrived to-day from Hongkong.
Yokohama and Honolulu, bringing the
following Orlentai advlces:
The Hongkong Telegraph" says that
continual trouble is being reported
from vessels manned by japanese
crews, the Japs resenting any instruc-
tions or surveillance from European
officers and reserving an especial gruGg-
tor European passengers. Several
cases have been reported where Ollie
ers We're marked for attack by the Jap
anese and warned to withdraw from the
service, their retention of their posi-
tons being invariably followed by
murderous attack from ambuShed Jap
aneSe enemies.
case in point is reported from the
y. Y X. liner Hakata Maru, from Ja-
pan via Hongiong for England. There
We're thirty-eght passengers on board
the liner, many of whom were repeat
edly attacked by the japanese crew
whenever they left thir own staterooms
after nightfal. On N<es Years Day
the Telegraph says, all the japanese
sailors and walters, mad drunk" and
clad only in breeeh clouts, made an or
ganlzed attack upon the English offic-
ers and passengers of the Hakata Ma
ru. The Japs, who were armed with
knives. crow-bars and Delaying pins.
brutally beat the Chief Engineer and
his third assistant, and attacked pas
senger, Thomas Hall, in his BERTH cut
irc 7, with a n11rlinP Snikp
According to the account of the "Tele-
graph" the officers and most of the pas
sengers We're driven TO the bridge.
where unarmed. forty Englishmen
kept 100 drink-maddened japanese at
bay. during the entire night by brand
ishing their walking sticks
The Shanghai Recorder deplores
any partition of China which, it says.
viii certainly be unfavorable TO mis-
sionary work, adding that it viii be
sad thing not. only for China but for all
concerned, if the Powers undertake
such action. predicting that partition
would be the beginning of unending
strife and bloodshed. The Recorder
calls upon Great Britain to interfere
and say that China shall not be divid
ed but that she shall be reformed and
ence England would have the support
of Japan and the active acquiescenee CT
the United States.
Three Chinese were 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
executed men We're members of an
of St0. M IN
reading a store killed Chinese en-
ploye. The criminals We're disbanded
soldiers.
The annual cotton report from Shang-
hal states that the year 1897 was one
Of extraordinary vieissitudes 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 came a strin-
gency in the Chinese money marker.
the result being widespread disaster
among the cotton dealers, very few inn
porters escaping heavy losses The
turning point is believed to have been
reached, however, the year 1898 open
ing with an improved demand and an
increased number of transactions. al
though Shanghai jobbers can hardly
obtained.
The chartered transport Jelunsa from
Hongkong. arrived at Singapore OH
January 9th bringing the first battal-
ion Prince Wales own and taking away
the following day the departing Rifle
Brigade.
Koyasu Shun, founder of the "Yomiu-
ri Shimbun." one OF the Oldest papers IN
Japan. in 1874, died on January 15tn,
aged G3 He was formerly Junior SEE
retary of the Foreign Office He start
ed the first mutual life insurance as
sociation in Japan and among other
achievements edited the best Anglo
japanese diction of its day in 1913.
Kenichi Onoye, who is under arrest
in san Francisco for the embeZzlement
OF - 600 yen from Favre Brandle Of
Osaka, is also suspected of forgery AMI
the Foreign Office has communicated
with Minister Hoshi with regard TO his
extradition-
AS soon as the ratification treaty wita
France has been executed, 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 1s:.
are therefore estimated to be an in
crease Of six million yen.
The "Hoehi Shimbun" says that a
communication was originally made by
the japanese Government TO the for
eign Powers with the object Of placing
Formosa beyond the pale of the new
treaty but as only Great Britain ana
one other Power consented Japan de-
cided to carry out the new treaties in
Formosa also.
The celebration Cf the coming Of age
Of the Crown Prince Haruna Miya.
which was postponed last year, owing
to the court mourning for the late En-
press Dowager. will be held IN March.
Japans foreign trade during the
month OF December last was as follows:
Exports 19,2T5.I6e yen, imports II
l10103 yen. The exports of gold and
silver bullion amounted to t.a'o.362
yen and the imports to 6161S yen.