Democratic Sentinel, Volume 18, Number 48, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 14 December 1894 — TREASON IS CHARGED. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TREASON IS CHARGED.

ILI HUNG CHANG ACCUSED Of BETRAYING CHINA. Said to Have Favored Japan and to Have Sold Her War Secrete and A mAttack on the Great Viceroy. Plotted Against the Empire. His majesty the Emperor of China ha* been memorialized by over one hundred ol the highest officials in his empire for the impeachment of General Li Hung ( hang. Advices from Shanghai say the important memorial has caused a profound sensation. The disgraced prime minister is charged with corruption, peculation and deception. Tho memorial also declares that Li Hung Chang has openly rejoiced at the successive important victories by land and sea of the country'* enemies, tho Japanese, and that by hie,deliberate action he virtually prevented the Chinese from achieving success. The prime minister is said by the memorial to have represented that China was fully equipped and well prepared for war when be was well aware of the fact that the country was illy able to contend against the forces of Japan. It is further charged that he ha* been implicated with Prince Kung, the uucle of the Chinese Emperor and President of the Taung Li Yamen and of the Admiralty, wly> was recently appointed to the po-

sition of dictator, and with tho Taotai Wu and tho commander of the force* at Port Arthur. Gen. LI Hung Chang, who 1* declared to bo the prime mover in tho alleged conspiracy against his own country, was born in the Anu-Huel province of Chinn on Feb. 16, 1823. In 1860 ho co-operated with General (then Colonel) Gordon in suppressing tho Tneplng rebellion, being then Governor of the Thiung-Sin province. The other Thiang province being added to his rule, ho was created Viceroy of the united countries in May, 1805. The following year ho was appointed Minister Plenipotentiary, and in 1867 Viceroy of Hong-Kuang, and a grand chancellor in 1868. After tho Tien-Twin massacre in 1870, he was despoiled of his titles mid otherwise punished on the charge of not assisting the general in command, but in 1872 the then Emperor restored him to favor and offered him tho office of Grand Chancellor. He was tho mediator for fixing tho indemnity for tho murder of Mr. Margnry ( who was killed, in 1876, while endeavoring to explore southwestern China. Then he was appointed Viceroy of tho metropolitan provinces of Pe-Chih-Li, and n* such has been tho administrator of the Chinese empire. He has been regarded ns a man of liberal views, and has permitted coal-mining and coast steamer traffic to be carried on by English companies, and it has been thought that he would be favorable even to the building of railways.

LI HUNG CHANG. (China’s disgraced Prime Minister.)