'The annual dinner of the Oriental Association took place last night here. Mr. Kato, ex-Foreign Minister, was in the chair. Count Katsura' and Baron Komura not present, and Count Okuma, ex-Premier and Foreign Minister, was the principal speaker of the evening. He believed that the country's diplomacy ought not tu be kept strictly secret, but that the public should be let into' the confidence of the Government as far as possible. He traced the rise of the present dispute with Russia to the retrocession of the Liaotung Peninsula, and said that Japan's which words were Patience and Vengeance. It was Japan's duty to save China, and the sooner she took action the better.
The Seoul-Fusan Railway.
An Imperial Ordinatice is to be issued very shortly placing the Seoul-Fusan railway under direct government supervision
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.