Kansas City journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1897-1928, 1898-02-14
STEAMER CREW ATTACK OFFICERS
AND PASSENGERS.
HELD AT BAY WITH CANES
CONTINUAL TROUBLE on VESSELS
MANNED BY JAPANESE.
Japs Seen, tn Have n Special GrudEe
Against European Passengers-
Triple Chinese Hanging mt
Hong Kong Other
Oriental News.

San. Francisco. Feb. 13.-The Oriental and
Occidental Steamship Company's steamer
Gaelic arrived to-day from Hong Kong,
Yokohama and Honolulu, bringing the fol-
lowing 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 sur
veillance from European officers, and re-
serving an especial grudge for European
passengers. Several cases have been re-
ported where officers were marked for at
tack by the japanese and warned to with
draw from the service, their retention OF
their positions being invariably followed by
a murderous attack from ambushed Jap
anese enemies. A case in point is reported
from the N. Y. X. liner Hakata Maru,
from Japan, via Hong Kong, for England.
There were thirty-eight passengers on
board the liner, many of whom were re-
reatedly attacked by the japanese crew
whenever they left their own state rooms
after nightfall.
On New Years day, the Telegraph says,
all the japanese sailors and walters were
mad drunk and, clad only in breech-
clouts, made an organized attack on the
English officers and passengers of the
Hakata Maru. The Japanese. who were
armed with knives, crowbars and Delaying
pins, brutally beat the chief engineer and
his third assistant and attacked passen-
ger, Thomas Hall. in his BERTH, cutting
his head open with marlin spike. Ac-
cording to the account in the Telegraph,
the officers and most Of the passengers
forty Englshmen kept 100 drink-maddened
japanese at bay during the entire night
by brandishing their walking sticks.
Thine Shanghai Recorder deplores any
partition of China, which, 1t says, will GER
tainly be unfavorable to missionary work,
addi3g that it win be sad thing not only
powers undertake such action. predicting
that partition would be the begin
The 1ris Recorder e % calls upon 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 support
of Japan and the active acquiescence OF
the United States.
Three Chinese were hanged simutan-
eously in the Victoria Jail at Hong Kong
on January u, the drop being made to ac-
through together The executed men We're
members of an armed gang Of shop thieves,
and in raiding a store. killed Chinese
employee The criminals We're disbanded
soldiers.
The annual cotton report from Shanghai
states that the year 1897 was Some one o; OF .si. fX
trade. The year began with an enormous
stock of unsold goods on hand. Prices
declined steadily until the end of August.
Then came a stringency in the Chinese
money market. the result being wide
spread disaster among the cotton deal
ers, very few importers escaping heavy
losses. The turning point Is believed to
have been reached. however, the year 1888
opening with an improved demand and an
increased number of transactions, al
though Shanghai jobbers can hardly con-
gratulate themselves on the prices OBJ
tained.