THE COREAN WAR.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4805, 21 August 1894, Page 3

THE COREAN WAR.

Barbarities by the Chinese,

Shanghai, August 18. The Court which enquired into the sinking of the- Kow Shiug found that t Captain Galsworthy and his colleagues were deserving of the highest praise for j tlieir judgment and coolness under trying .circumstances, and further,, that; they did all that was in their powor to save the vessel.

No engagements have taken place between the Chinese and Japanese fleets, as both aro playing the game of "hido and seek,"

At the rajuestof Admiral Frccmantlc, of the British 'licet, Japan has agreed not to renew the attack on Wcihaiwai or bombard Chefoo, without'lß hours' notice.

Japan has authorised a loan ol 50,000,000 dollars. • .

London, August 18, The Times' Yokohama correspondent declares that capitalists have guaranteed a sum of £16,000,000 for war purposes. Tho Vossischo Zeitung, aßcrliii paper, considers that lending money to China is a crime against tho civilised world.

The Japanese have laid torpedoes at Nagasaki, Tokio; and Yokohama. ■' ; Tho German Asiatic Bank in Berlin is floating a Chinese million loan at 5 per cent.

' ; August 19. Owing to tho Chinese firing on and hilling medical officers and causing explosions in tho field hospitals,' the Japanese will not admit adhorents of the Bed Cross into Corca. - '■'

Diiring tho Yashan' figlit tho Corean soldiery foughtpluckily on the Japanese side;' <

Lord Einibcrlcy, Secretary State

for Foreign Affairs, has seized atorpedocatcher in .courso ,qf .construction, at Elswiok for tho Chinese Government, aud has signed a warrant Retaining the vessel..'■' ?'/,'."■! '''"■!.■. .' .',