Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1899-01-12
Just Brought by the Steamer Empress
of Japan.
MORE MASSACRES OF MISSIONARIES
Supplementary Commercial Treaty
Between Three Nations.
ACCIDENTS TO STEAMERS

| VANCOUVER, B. c., January Pad
| vices from the orient brought by the steam
! er~Empress of Japan indicate that the re,a-
items between China and France are very
strained and the Chinese are trying to keep
on the best side of the British.
1t is reported from Pekin that Russia
has demanded a lease for the Mao Tao
Islands as a torpedo station.
| 1t Is reported that the French have sent
| emma an ultimatum threatening to send
an al med force from Tonkin into the SEE
| Chuan to rescue the unfortunate Father
| FIeury.
Pritchard Morgan, NJ p, has succeeded
| IN obtaining a concession of all the mineral
| rights in the province of SEE Chuan the
largest and probably the richest province
| in China.
Pere Victorin and a large number of
Christians have been massacred by the en-
| ulators of Yu Man TIE.
case of piracy upon Hong Kong fish
| Ing junk off Pinghoi in Mrs Bay is re-
| ported. There were no firearms on board
| the junk and the crew made a gallant at
tempt at defense by hurting stone ballast
| on the pirates. They Were, however over
| powered and five were killed and four
wounded.
| Retails Of PiratfcaI Attack.
| Tonkin papers contain the details of a
| plratical attack upon the town of Hanoi
| on the night of December s by a band of
500 armed Annemite robbers, who had
| pillaged several villages en- route from
| Sontay, In Hanoi they were met by the
| native ard foreign forces Four of the
| robbers were killed and six wounded Be
| tween seventy and eighty arrests were
made.
General Parsons, chief of survey of an
American syndicate which is TO construct
| grand trunk railway from Haukow to
| canton, Is nlakiDp his nrplimuart-
| or the line, accompanied by nine European
assistants. If he meets with no serious op-
position from the Huennese he expects TO
| reach Canton by the beginning of Febru-
airy.
| The trial of the American named Richard
| Toulmin at the United States consulate
| court of Canton for the murder of Cheng
Lei san, a compradore of Dosing, was con-
| Guided on December II. Toulmin was SEN
| fenced to hard labor for life.
supplementary treaty has been signed
between both Germany and France and
! Japan, substituting specific for ad valorem
| duties on German and French imports.
Scandal In Japan
A great scandal has been raised in Japan-
! csc political circles by the frank confession
| of Moyama Kiunoseke that he received a
bride Of 1000 Yen from the government to
vote for the land tax BILL which however.
| he opposed.
On December il the Japanese steamer
1ayeyama ran into the p and o. steamer
Brindisi, while she was lying at anchor at
Bakau, near Moji. The Yayeyama sank
almost instantly. No lives We're lost The
Brlndisi was slightly damaged.
News from Singapore via Hong Kong re-
ports the wreck of the ship Earl of Hone
tcun. The vessel is a total loss The Earl
of Hopetoun. a full-rigged sailing ship. un-
ger command of Capt. Bowley, was on a
voyage from Philadelphia to Yokohama
When in the Macelestield channel, 800 miles
from Singapore, she struck on rock and
foundered, fortunately without loss of life
A marine court of inquiry exonerated off,
GERS from all blame.
Views of Ex-Minister Barrett.
japanese papers to hand by the Empress
of Japan are full of interviews with John
Barrett, recently United States minister to
Siam, on the Chinese question. Barrett
thinks that the time is ripe for the adop-
ton of an active far astern policy by Eng
land, Japan and the United States with. if
possible, the cooperation of Germany Rus
STA and France. whose policy appears to be
to gain gradually the exclusive control of
vast areas of Chinese territory and to close
these areas to unrestricted trade would
thus be confronted by pressure impossible
to resist, and would find themselves com
PEELED to guarantee within their spheres of
influence the maintenance of equal trade
rights conferred by existing treaties be-