Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1898-02-14
JAPANESE HATRED FOR ENGLISH.
Constant Conflicts at Hong Kong-Thc Siiua
ton Becoming Serious.

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and occidental Steamship Co. steamer
Gaelic arrived. today. from Hong
Kong. Yokohama and Honolulu bring
ing the following Oriental advices: The
Hong Kong Telegraph says that con-
tinual trouble is being reported from
vessels manned by japanese crews, the
japanese resenting any instructions or
surveillance from European officers and
are reserving an especial grudge for
| European passengers. Several cases
! have been reported where officers were
| marked for attack by the Japanese and
| warned to Withdraw from the service
| the retention Of their positions being
| Invariably followed by murderous at
tack from ambushed japanese enemies.
| \ case in point is reported from the
~ Y X liner Hakate Maru from
Japan via Hong Kong for England.
| There were IS passengers on board the
| liner. many of whom were repeatedly
attacked by the japanese crew when
| ever they left their own staterooms af-
! ter nightfall
on New Years day the Telegraph
says all the japanese sailors and wait
ers mad drunk and clad only in
| breech cloths made an organized at
tack on the English officers and pas
sengers of the Hakate Maru. The
japanese armed with knives. crowbars
and Delaying pins brutally beat the
chief engineer and his assistant and
attacked a passenger. Thos. Han. in his
| berth. cutting his head open With a
marlin spike.
According to the account in the Telc-
| graph, the officers and most of the
passengers We're driven to the bridge.
where, 40 unarmed Englishmen kept 100
drink maddened japanese at bay dur
ing the entire night by hrandishing
their walking sticks
The Shanghai Recorder deplores any
partition of China. which it says will
! certainly be unfayorabIe to missionary
work. adding that ii viii he a sad
| thing. not only for China, but for all
concerned if the Powers undertake
such action, predicting that partition
| would he the beginning Of amending
strife and bloodshed.
/ The Recorder calls upon Great Britain
! to interfere ana says that China shall
/ not he divided but that she shall be re-
/ formed and saved, predicting that in
such Interference England would have
the support of Japan and the active
acquescencc of the United States.
! Three Chinese were hanged stimuli
! tancously in the Victoria jail at Hong
Kong, Jan. l., the drop being made To
accommodate all three and the trio
falling together. The executed MEM
| beers We're members of an armed gang
of shop thieves ap.l in raiding a store
killed Chinese employees. The cI1mi-
| nails We're disbanded soldiers
| The annual cottonr report from Shang-
hal states that the year OF 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 came a
| stringency in the Chinese money mar
ket, the result being Widespread dis
aster among the cotton dealers. very
few importers escaping heavy losses.
| The turning point is believed to have
been reached. however. the 1898 OPEN
ing with an improved demand and an
increased number of transactions. al
though Shanghai jGbbers can hardly
congratulate themselves on the prices
obtained.
The chartered transport Jelunga
from Hong Kong arrived at Singapore.
Jan. 6, bringing the LIST Battalion
Prince of Wales own. and taking away
the same day the departing rifle bri-
sade
Royasu Shen, founder of the Yomi-
uri Shimunda, one of the oldest papers
in Japan in 1874 died. Jan. Is. aged g.
He was formerly junior secretary of
the foreign office. He started the first
mutual life Insurance associations in
Japan and among other achievements.
edited the best English Japanese die
tionary of its day, 1898.
Konichi Otoye. who is under arrest
in San Francisco for the embezzlement
of $4,000 yen from Savro Brandt of
Osaka, is also suspected of forgery and
the foreign office has communicated
with Minister Hosh with regard to his
eXtradition.
AS soon as the ratification treaty
with France has been exchanged the
date of the standard and conventional
tariff Will be notified to the foreign
powers and tariffs themselves put into
operation. The receipts for the COM
ing fiscal year commencing April l. are |
therefore estimated to be an increase |
of 5000 yen.
The Hochi Shiclbun says that com
munication was originally made by 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, thereat. |
Japanese decided to carry out the new
treaties in Formosa.
The celebration of the coming age of |
Crown Prince Haruno Miya which was
postponed, last year, owing to the court
mourning for the late Empress Dow
ager, will be held in March
Japan's trade during the month of
December last was as follows: Exports,
19,275,162 yen; imports 11.170.1O3 yen
The exports of gold and silver bullion
amounted to $3.50, 362 yen and the i'm
ports to 676,1S2.