People's Pilot, Volume 4, Number 45, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 4 May 1895 — RUSSIA TALKS OF WAR [ARTICLE]

RUSSIA TALKS OF WAR

INVITES FRANCE AND GERMANY TO COMBINE WITH HER Proposes a Joint Protest Against Japan -—Armed Intervention Very Prot able of the Crathle Not Responsible for the Loss of the Elbe. Paris, May I.—The Gaulois announces that Russia has invited France and Germany to sign a Joint note stating their objection to the treaty of peace arranged at Shimoneseki between the representatives of China and Japan and that the latter country be notified that the fact of her ignoring this note will warrant armed intervention upon ths part of the three great powers which sign It. Were Not at Their Posts. Lowestoft, England, May I.—The coroner’s Jury which has been investigating the cause of the sinking of the North German Lloyd steamship Elbe after a collision early In the morning of Jan. 30 returned a verdict of gross negligence upon the part of the mate and look-out man of the British steamer Crathle, which ran Into and sank the Elbe. In spite of this, owing to the absence of evidence from the survivors of the Elbe, the Jury found that there was not sufficient proof that the Crathle was solely to blame for the collision, tnd on the question of standing by the rule of the road the Jury exonerated Capt. Gordon, commander of the Crathle, from all blame. Bayoneted Chinese Wounded. Yokohama, May I.—A correspondent of the North China News, writing from New Chwang, asserts, and quotes Europeans as authority, that the Japanese troops, when they entered Denshodai murdered and wounded prisoners of war and many of the peace population, asserted that an hour after the battle ended not a wounded man was to be seen, but there were many bodies with bayonet, in addition to gun wounds. There were over one thousand dead, and many bodies were mutilated. Thirty marines who have been guarding the United States legation at Seoul pince last autumn were withdrawn March 28. To Ratify the Treaty. Yokohama, May I.—Count Ito, president of the Japanese council of ministers, and Count Myojl, the Japanese envoy, have started for Chee Foo in ■order to be ready to ratify the treaty of peace on May 8, the date fixed by the peace envoys for the ratification. Tlen-Tstn, May I.—ln response to an Imperial summons Li Hung Chang has started for Peking. It Is believed that the object of his Journey to the capital is to receive the emperor's ratiflcatlofa of the treaty of peace arrived at between China and Japan. Half the Town Destroyed, St. Petersburg, May I.—A dispatch from Dubno, In the government of Volhynia, announces that half the town has been destroyed by fire. Dubno has a population of about 8,000, a castle, numerous churches and a Greek abbey..