Political. The leading incident of the past year has been the quarrel between China and Japan about Formosa, Some years ago, a Linchiuan junk was wrecked on the East Const of Formosa, and the crew murdered by the natives, Japan claims sovereignty over the Linchins, which were a more immediate dependency of Satsuma until the ex. tinction of feudality during the late revolution; and the Satsuma clan were especially land in their demand that the outrage should be punished. The ery was echoed by thousands of the military class, who were fretting for active employment; and the Japanese Government instructed its Ambassador to broach the matter at Peking in the Spring of '73. There seems no doubt that the Chinese Government repudiated responsibility for the action of the Formosans, and that Japan intimated
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