Rensselaer Republican, Volume 26, Number 51, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 16 August 1894 — THE EASTERN WAR. [ARTICLE]

THE EASTERN WAR.

Progress of Hostilities Between China and Japan. Formal Declaration of War—Several Engage men ta—Notea. The commander-in-chief of the Korean army is an American.and a Chicago man at that—Major Dye. He is agraduate of West Point and served onthe Union side during therebellion. At the close of the war he returned to Chicago, where he had inherited some property, and went into business, but it seems that the great fire of 1871 swept away whatever ho had, and in 1873 he went to Egypt with several of his former comrades to take service under the Khedive. Gen. Stone, an American, was commander-in-chief of the Egyptian army. Major Dye was a member of his staff and for a time acted as adjutantgeneral. In 1879 Major Dye returned to Washington and became chief of police. The Korean embassy subsequently engaged him to go to that country to introduce modern military methods and he at last became commander of the Korean army and has retained the position. /Hundreds of letters are received daily by the Japanese embassy at Washington tendering service to the Japanese government. All are declined. It is a penal offense for Americans to serve either in the Chinese or Japanese service while the two nations are at war, so the latter government can not under any circumstances accept the offers. An extraordinary gazette has been issued containing a proclamation by the Queen of Great Britain’s neutrality in the war between Chinn and Japan. There is also published in the gazette a letter from the Earl of Kimberly to the Lords of the Admiralty, setting forth the rules to be observed at the various British ports and harbors. A belligerent man-of-war must leave British waters within twenty-four hours after its arrival therein, unless the weather or the necessity of taking on coal or provisions prevents. In thn event of a Chinese and a Japanese vessel being in a British port together, an interval of twenty-four hours must elapse between the departure of the two vessels.