The Salt Lake herald. [volume] (Salt Lake City [Utah]) 1870-1909, 1898-11-29
Threatened Outbreak of HOstilities
Between Japan and Russia.
TROOPS SENT TO cOREA
JAPS DETERMINED TO DRIVE
OUT THE RUSSIANS.
Seven Japanese Officers Executed By
the Russians at Port Arthur
Missionaries Killed BY Chinese
Rebels-Execution of Conspir-
ators In Corea-Torn to Pieces.

Victoria, B. c., Nov. 2S.-The steamer
Glenogle has arrived here, after tenn
pestuous passage, bringing an interest
ing budget of news from the restless
east From Tien Tsin comes, news
which shows that Japan has decided to
resist Russian aggression. She is pre-
pairing to drive the czar's troops from
Corea, and to this end large detach-
ments of troops are being landed in the
hermit's kingdom.
News is also at hand from Tien Tsin
that a large number of japanese spies
have been captured by the Russians at
Port Arthur and shor. Seven Japan
csc, all officers of the imperial Japan
csc army, were taken, aud on their per-
sons were found drawings of the prin-
cipal Notifications. Eut a day elapsed
after their capture before they were
marched out before firing party OF
Russians and summarily shot.
The rebels in Chung King, according
to adyices by the Glenogle, are increas-
ing in power daily.
The Tung Liang & How Chow rail-
way is completely under their control
They have compelled Well-to-do people
to provide them with money and provi-
sionS, and are making weapons day and
hight. Merchants in Chung Kiang have
wired to Shanghai and other ports
stopping the shipment of goods. The
rebels are daily committing atrocities
of every sort and kind. One of their
leaders, Vii, went to the governor OF
Lung Shut Chin and demanded large
sum of money, was refused, and the
rebels, 1900 strong, plundered the town,
killing hundreds.
Two days afterwards they went to
Tung LANG and demolished all the
houses of the Christians, massacreing
those who tried to escape, with shock
ing brutality. They then declared that
they had gone to that city especially
to oppose foreigners and Christians.
Others, they said, were not to be mo-
Tested unless they offered resistance.
Two French priests and Methodist
missionary had gone to the magis-
trate's yamen for shelter and late in
the afternoon the rebels went to the
magistrate and asked that they be de-
liyered up. The magistrate refused,
but afterwards relented and allowed
the rebels to enter the yamen to take
the missionaries The Methodist drew
a revolver and he was at once killed.
The two French priests were bound and
carried away as prisoners. The rebels
then retired to Wang Choa Tung. They
are, it is said, Selling and numbering
| Christians almost daily.
According to the reports from Che
mulpo, matters have reached a grave
crisis in Corea.
The emperor is being worried to death
with petitions by the Independence
| club, who are forcing his hand to dis
miss some of the higher ministers
when the whole phalanX of the indie
pendence club will invade the palace
and take charge of the government
affairs.
The execution of the unfortunates
accused of the attempt to poison the
emperor was a CHASTITY affair. The
doomed were taken from the scaffold
on which they were to have been exc
cuted, by mob. Then began one OF
the most gruesome exhibitions of saw
agery and bloodthirstiness ever seen in
any land. The condemned men were
actually torn to pices by the mob, and
even when life was extinct, the most
devilish indignities imaginable were
heaped on the mangled and bleeding re-
mains.