Rensselaer Republican, Volume 27, Number 3, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 13 September 1894 — ABOUT THE WAR. [ARTICLE]

ABOUT THE WAR.

More Or Less Reliable Information from the Orient. The Pacific liner Sikh, from Yokohama! arrived at Victoria, B. C., Sept. 9, bringing interesting advices from the war in the Orient, the principal points in the dispatch being as follows: “The reason given by the commander of the Japanese warship Nanlwa-Kan, why he fired on the Kow-Shing. seeing she was flying the British flag, Is now given for the first time and is certainly pertinent. “Because she was sailing under false colors; was carrying Chinese troops and had been sold to the Chinese government and fully paid for,” “Notwithstanding this explanation the same paper which gives it publicity announces that the sum of $750,000 has been agreed to by the Japanese government as reparation for the sinking of Captains Galworthy’s vessel and compensation to those dependent upon the Europeans lost with her. “It is almost impossible to get reliable war news anywhere in the East, even at Shanghai. This trip the steamer passed very close to the Foo Chow forts and saw the Chinese garrison drawn up in line. They were 4 all attired in flowing sack gowns of gaudy color and had on threecornered silk bats and made a curious spectacle. These forts are in charge of an Englishman, the son of a naval officer, and are said to be exceedingly strong. “One of the eighty-ton guns burst some time ago, killing several men. It is generally understood this occurred through ignorance in handling it. China is now hurrying an army of hundreds of thousands of men through northern China to Corea, but as they are subsisting on tho products of the country through which they pass, and most of it is mountainous, it is hard to say with what success they will meet. Most of the men enlisted and drafted into the Chinese army are coolies of the low order. “It is reported that Admiral Ting, commander of the Pet Yang squadron, has been degraded for cowardice and incapacity and that he has been deprived of the peacock,feather and ordered to leave the fleet and take a shore command. “The native papers say that LI Hung Chang is working to procure the mediation of England and Russia in the war with Japan. The Emperor and Dowager Empress are, it is said, furious at the suggestion and refuse to listen to it.” '