4 AUGUST 1894, Page 1

- Against this is to be set a Chefoo telegram

in Thursday's Times, in which it is asserted that the Japanese acted with the utmost barbarity. According to this version, the captain, trusting to the British flag, did not escape, as he might have done, but had his vessel torpedoed notwithstanding. The points of International law involved are somewhat obscure, but Professor Westlake. a high authority, seems on the whole to consider that the Japanese can justify their conduct. Meantime, it is stated, Lord Kimberley has insisted that there shall be the fullest inquiry, and that a British repre- sentative shall be present at the Court-martial on the captain of the Naniwa.'