Hawaii Holomua, Volume II, Number 48, 13 November 1894 — TRIUMPHANT MARCH. [ARTICLE]

TRIUMPHANT MARCH.

1 I THE JAPANESE AHMY 0 STILL YICTOKIOUS. B 1 PORT ARTHUR TAKEN. r Ohina Suing for Peaee. i . 1 Tien Tsin, Oct. 29. The news - t of the Chinese defeat north of j , tho Yalu river has caused eon- i a steruation here. # The Chinese :i officia!s do not attempt to deny i the serious nature of thedisaster. - The next fighting is oxpected at 9 Port Arthur. 9 Wushington, Oct. 30. Minister l 1 Denby, in a cablegram to the j • St«to Departmeut from Peking j today, says the Ghinose forceg ■ t bave beou defeated at Chien Lien | 1 Cbeng and bave retreated to > > Monkden He also reports the Japanese huve takon one of the ' t Chinese forts at Port Artbur. Wasbington, Nov. 3. The Jap-| - auese Legation has received the j following cable from the Japa- | s neae governmeut: “The first i 1 army noder Marshal yam»g»U -*bas'taken possession of rong : ” Faag Toheng. The Chinese fled j toward Matie Nug. The rest of i s ; the army, uuderMarshal Oyama, , are now attacking King Chow, 3 and both Ta Len Wai and Port • Arthur will soon be taken.” lt is again stated iu Tien-Tsin , tl.at a Japanese force has landed 3 forty miles north of Shanghai ) Kwan. It is expeoted that for- - eiguers will be officially reqnest- i - ed to leave Peking witbin a fort- s nigbt. ? Rome, Nov. 5. A dispatch 3 from Peking states Cbiua is dis- j l posed to concludo j>eaoe with | , Japan on a basis of a guarautee f of tbo independence of Korea aud t the payment of an indemuity, the • amount to be fixed by thep owers. ) The dispatch adds that it is re- - ported that China has invited j 3 tbe represent!itives of the powers - to intervene to secure peaee. t l’okohama, Nov, 5. The report ? cabled to tho Associated Press > that Fuug Wung Ching was set | • on fire before its evacuatiou by ■ the Chinese haa been confirmed - by advices from the front The i Ohineae baving evidontly abanr doned hope of making a successi ' fol defense agaiust the advancing > Japanese arroy, set fire to the > castle and tben fied witbout waiti iug to be attacked. A deUcbment of tbe first Japanese bas reaobed the lauding plaee of tbe secoud army, and communieation betweea tbe two • armios has been established. It is stated tbat-Viceroy Li Huog Chang. instead of takiug command of tbe first Chiuese army, as it was said that be bad beeu ordered to do, has been transferred from Tien-Tsin to Peking. London, Nov. 6. The Dai)y News aaw that tbe Chinese Minister bas imparted to the Foreign Office Cbina s desire that tbe powers mediate with Japan for peaee. The Minister has gone to Pam to make a similar request of Franoe. ( The Timea will pnhliah a dis- 1 paieh tomorrow from Tien-Tsin. i saying that tho telegraph liaea to 1 Port Arthnr were cot yesterday, | probab!y at the nanow istfamns betweoa Port Artnur ami Talin * Wan, indioating that tha Japa- 1 neee are within a day’a maroh of ' ihe Talian Wan forta. • ' ■ . v -. ■&£