THE COREAN TROUBLE.

Temuka Leader, Issue 2705, 30 August 1894, Page 1

THE COREAN TROUBLE.

Shanghai, Aug. 26. China is engaging a number of American engineers.

, The Chinese cavalry at Pingyang, after routing the Japanese, captured and beheaded a hundred stragglers. The Chinese are increasing the inland duties on yarn silk, with a view to raise war funds.

Many Japanese have been expelled from Shanghai on suspicion of acting as . spies disguised in Chinese costume. At Formosa fifty Japanese charged with spying, were beheaded without trial. j The Rev. Mr Wylie, was killed in the greets of Liao jan g at midday. Meeting a iband of Chinese soldiers he stood aside tp let them pass, but the men jeered at him for “ a foreign devil,” stabbed and brutally hacked the unfortunate gentleman, and then kicked him as he writhed on the ground. The officers made no attempt to restrain their men. Mr Wylie died in a few hours.

1 The Emperor has ordered 100,000 Manchus and Pekinese to be ready for active service in Tientsin and Tungchan. , Aug. 28. The Japanese have landed an additional 6000 troops at Chemulpo. ; Suez, Aug. 28. ; The British authorities in Aden have detained the new Japanese warship Taksuta from proceeding East. Li Hung Chang has informed the British Minister that he aeeply regrets the recent murders and assaults on missionaries, and that be has ordered the culprits to be beheaded.