It is reported from Seoul that an agreement was signed on the 22nd August between the Japanese Representative and the Corean Acting Minister of Foreign Affairs binding Cores to cuusult the Tokio Government before concluding treaties and granting concessions. The full text of the agreement will be published shortly. The ab..ve compact virtually establishes Japan's suzerainty over Corea. Despite recent statements made by some foreign corres-Boren is now satisfactorily carried out. As ondents in Seoul, Japan's policy vis-b-vis for the currency reform, proposed inter alia by the Japanese Minister, Japan will advance Corea certain sum required for the. purposes. Reforms are impossible in{Corea from within in the existing ci cumstances. In short, Corea is to be practically helped by Japan and lifted out. of her helplessness by her sister State. This policy is fully in consonance with the demands of the best experience. Corea's well-being is Japan's well-being, and there is no question of rivalry, much less of a conflict of interests between the two countries.
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