Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . achery. At this juncture Yuen returned to Chinafrom Corea. No sooner had he touched thesoil of Tien-Tsin than Li took possession ofhim, and, apprehensive of Yuens exposureof his share in the Corean complications, in-duced him to conceal his whereabouts. Likept him literally in a state of confinement,while he was using his every effort in Pekinto bring him into disgrace. Yuens indi
Chinese horrors and persecutions of the Christians; containing a full account of the great insurrection in China; atrocities of the "Boxers" ..together with the complete history of China down to the present time .. . achery. At this juncture Yuen returned to Chinafrom Corea. No sooner had he touched thesoil of Tien-Tsin than Li took possession ofhim, and, apprehensive of Yuens exposureof his share in the Corean complications, in-duced him to conceal his whereabouts. Likept him literally in a state of confinement,while he was using his every effort in Pekinto bring him into disgrace. Yuens indigna-tion was great when he finally learned ofthis piece of treachery on the part of the oldViceroy. Determined to protect himselffrom danger by giving facts and evidence be-fore the high officials of the Pekin court,Yuen escaped to the capital. The dread of Li-Hung-Chang in conse-quence of the disappearance of Yuen canwell be imagined. He was quite at a lossat first what to do, but he determined to takesome extreme measure for his own arrived at the capital, where he washappy at the prospect of being able to appealto the court, and of establishing his inno-cence by exposing the whole affair before. 348 COREA AND THE WAR. the high officials. On the night of his ar-rival he was invited to dine with a friendfrom whom he had been separated since hewent to Corea as Minister. He returnedhome and retired, feeling unusually comforta-ble for the first time after his arrival in hisnative land. But next morning Yuen wasno more. He was dead. Field Marshal Count Yamagata reportedto the Emperor that at daybreak on October25 the Japanese army under his commandcompleted its crossing of the Yalu River,and in the forenoon attacked and defeatedthe Chinese near Fu-Shang, also capturing afortress on the right bank of the River to the statement of a Chineseofficer who was made prisoner the enemywere eighteen battalions strong. The Chi-nese lost two hundred killed and a large
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