People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 16, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 12 October 1894 — ON TO PEKIN. [ARTICLE]

ON TO PEKIN.

Cautious Advance of Japanese Troops Against the Capital. Ko Plundering Will Bp Allowed If Taken —Moukden Evacuated by the Chinese— Rebellions Subjects Add to the Terrors of War. London. Oct. 9.—A dispatch to the Times from Tien L'sin dated Saturday says that the Japanese are advancing cautiously toward Moukden and avoiding any dashing enterprises. Their cruisers are closely watching the Chinese fleet in the gulf of Pe Chi Li. The Japanese army advancing on Pekin is said to have many Koreans in its ranks. The recent announcement that American officers had entered the Japanese army has been rectified. It now appears that Gen. Ruggles and several other American officers were readily permitted by the Japanese government to follow the campaign, but solely as spectators. Will Allow No Plundering. The Japanese government has instructed Field Marshal Yamaga to in j form the diplomats at Seoul that he will not allow the Japanese army to plunder Pekin in ease that city is taken. This assurance will probably induce the diplomats to stay in Pekin even should the emperor leave the capital. They will, at any rate, attempt to negotiate a peace by asking Japan to be moderate in her demands. The emperor's palace in Pekin is now guarded by Mantehu troops only. A dispatch received at New Chwang, gulf of Lac Ton. says that the Chinese are in full retreat from Moukden,

which is threatened by the advance ( of the Japanese troops from Corea 1 and the .Japanese force said to have been landed near Possiel bay, not far from the Russian territory bor- • dering on Corea and the Chinese province of Manchuria. Another report from Shanghai says it is believed at the latter city that the Chinese forces which have been defending Moukdeu have been hastily summoned from that place in order to oppose the projected Japanese landing either in the gulf of Pe-Chi-Li or in the gulf of Lao Ton. The Chinese have been hurriedly adding to the fortifications of New | Chwang in anticipation of a Japanese attack upon that port or a landing in its neighborhood. Rumors of Rebellion. London, Oct. 6.—China is threatened from within and without. The walled empire, with its 400,000,000 people and its history of thousands of years, ■seems in the throes of dissolution. The empire is threatened within by intrigues against the present Tartar dynasty, by plotsto k’pose the emperor and place Pi ii--• Kung’s son. on the throne and by rebellions in the provinces. From vyi jo.-.t. comes invading Japan, with a! army of 30,000 in the province of Manchuria advancing on the capital, Moukden, and another army of 40,000 being convoyed across the gulf of Pechili to form a junction at Moukden with the other branch, and ■move on Pekin, the capital of the Chinese empire. Japan is bent on conquest and partition and Great Britain and Russia vire seeking an international council to decide the fate of China. To Prevent China’s Overthrow. London, Oct. B.—A dispatch received here from Be 11 n say that it has been learned on Ligh authority that the meeting of the British cabinet was •called to discuss a proposal for combined action on the part of the powers to interfere and prevent the overthrow of the Chinese dynasty, which, it is claimed, would result in anarchy in rhe empire and the massacre of Europeans. One power, it is said, favored a compulsory settlement of the Chinese-Japanese dispute. The dispatch adds that Sir William Vernon Harcourt, chancellor of the exchequer, supported this view of the action to be taken, but Prime Minister Rosebery’ and a majority of the cabinet believed that active interference would be more dangerous than non-intervention, and it was decided that Great Britain should not interfere. The American Besldentit. Washington, Oct. 0. Secretary Her'bert lias Deen forehanded in taking

steps for the protection of th* lives and property of American residents in China, believed now to be endangered by rebellious and unrestrained troops. Three weeks ago the secretary suggested to Admiral Carpenter to confer with the commanders of tne foreign ships in Chinese waters and arrange to cooperate with them, if'possible, in a plan to have one or two ships at each of the treaty ports and other coast towns where foreigners reside, to give protection to the citizens or subjects of the nation's party to the agreement. In this way the eight United States vessels assigned to the station would be equivalent to many more for protection purposes. The Charleston has arrived at Yokohama. There are now five United states warships in the east —the Charleston. Baltimore. Monocacy, Concord and Petrel —and this force will be increased to eight vessels by the addition of the Detroit, Machias and Yorktown as soon as they can be made ready.