Resident-General in Cores, who has been staying here since the triumphant military review on the 3ist April, was) given a farewell tiffin at the Palace on the 16th June and is to leave his villa at Oise on the 20th to embark on the warship Okinoshima for Cores. The situation in Corea during the Resi-_ dent-General's absence cannot be said to have been altogether satisfactory. a cee a vouction of detaile Popular feeling towards Japan has taken place in Cores, fanned by some Court intriguers and irresponsible foreigners. Corean loyalty to agreements entered into with Japan is fundamental principle of in this part of the world, as is already tacitly recognised by all the Powers concerned. Hitherto, while the world recognised that Cures had become childish through misgovernment and, therefore, in position as dangerous ass child playing with matches in a powder factory, Corean susceptibilities have been spared. She hag boon allowed. to retain a nominal me on the one condition of abarlate loyalty tober contrecta. with to whom has been entrusted th work of her education.and.organi sation. It was inevitable that the transi tion should not take plac without violent friction. Seoul for centuries ing away in the reposed aboliment were prepared for thee They made Thedabas 1o90 Govern no wa duly harsh and drastic changes suddenly; they allowed local petty foreign papers in Seoul full license in criticism they enjoined the strictest moderation on the part of their nationals, But the first Resident-General proceeded quietly and steadily toward his appointed goal for all that. He has oven been accused by some Japanese hotis of using too much of the " ki glove" in his trestment of the Hower General, of tolerance which neither he nor they unable to pass, and that is the unit of Corean loyalty to agreements entered into with Japan. So long as thoro agreements are observed Court intrigues and pol fluence could be magnanimously allowed for, counteracted, and disregarded. At the hnart of the ow relations Marquis {to had a special bond with the Emperor of Corea himself, and the mutual interests guaranteed thereby might have been thought sufficient to guarantee its sanctity to the Goran sovereign. At any rate, the bond represented the last, most in-
Corean loyalty failed, the now superstructure to' be erected upon it was in danger. The limit of Japanese tolerance was reached, and, if the other Powers wore convinted that the Corean Emperor had proved disloyal, they would undoubtedly endorse any new action which Japan doomed proper in the premises.
Some companies of Japanese troops had been detailed in connection with local riots in Southern Corea, but it la noticeable thst they have prudently refrained from actually engaging the re, loaving the task of the subjagetion to the Japanese gendarmes and policemen, not a few of whom were Filled aod wounded, Japan in this matter of Corea is acting not for herself alone but also as an agency of world peace. Thus she ought to be careful that presented but yrean intrigue and other Corean obstacles are exactly' put the world. There nce that: recent riots in the ro a sequel of rogue, with which the Emperor is implicated. The riot in Hongju, Ohyungchyong province, has been already subdued by the Japanese police and gendarmery, but the riots then spread to two other southern provinces, causing great uneasiness among the innocent people. Under urgoat pressure by the Japanese Residency-General and Garrison Hoadquarters, the Corean Emperor hes issued two edicts enjoining the dissolution of the rioters, but they were ridiculed as a farce by the Japanese.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.