WAR IN THE EAST.

Te Aroha News, Volume XI, Issue 1706, 16 January 1895, Page 2

WAR IN THE EAST.

r BRITISH INTERFERENCE, r .Extreme measures threatened. I A FRIENDLT HINT ACCEPTED. L RUSSIA AND Cf>T>lgl4:|' ACHE RECEIT ENGAGEMENT. ; : T YP HUNDRED CHINESE SLAIN. _ , ■. Shanghai, January 13. Jr is reported W e . .tlxat .theJEritish ordered Admiral Freel mantle to use the entire force at his command, if necessary, to prevent the , Japanese entering .the YangTsbKiam? River. A friendly hint of this was conveyed to Tqkio, which explains the inaction of the Japanese fleet since the i encounter on the Yalu Eiver. f n „ - Shanghai, Januarf 14. .The defeat of the Chinese was dne to a flanking movement. Two hundred Chinese were killed \ ■ Ten thousand Chinese, inllded as! reiaforcemente for Kaiping, have now ' retreated to Yangtsu and Port Neu-' chang. ' , The negotiations for peace between Ohma and Japan will begin at l !"roshima on February 1. ■ . 4 , The Manchurian Princes have’taken the defence of the country into their own hands. Southern Manchuria* is said to he m a ghastly condition*; and the entire population has perished, some regions bejmg reduced to soltith,° failUre of fdod. Whole families have been frozen to death, r' ■. !

fc- % e^usand i pav«l^|- Je arrive* fcsin. " f.. ■ h;. N */. St. Petersbotu , January 14. i The Novoe ’Vretnya declares that'if China and Japan persist,, in ignoring Euasia’s-friendly counsels,Russia will be compelled to support her cnvinu in, Corea bv arms. . I