Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 36, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 21 September 1894 — JAPANESE IN A PANIC. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

JAPANESE IN A PANIC.

American Consul Surrenders Two Supposed Spies to the Chinese. Shanghai advices say the surrender to the Taotai outside the settlement limits, b.y the American Consul, of two

Japanese who were recently arrested accused of being spies, and ‘who had been under tho protection o: tho United States, has created a panic among the Japanese in this country. The latter believed themselves to be safe under the protection of the United States, and their alarm is increased in view of the report that their

two countrymen now in the hands of Taotai are t > be immediately executed. The Chinese authorities, when the prisoners were surrendered, pledged themselves not to torture the captives and to give them a fair trial. Ail the Japanese in this city, numbering about 1 00, are making preparations to leave China at the earliest moment possible. Many have already fled. The Yokohama Specie bank branch is transferring its business to the Comptoir d’Escompte during the war. The Japanese merchants are sel.ing out their business and preparing to leave the country.

EMPEROR OF JAPAN.