Fall details now to band of the attempted assassination of the Korean posed and that be weeks. The Home Minister, Pak Cheo-sun, has been made Premier ad interim, but there will be no Ministerial chaoge for the present.
The would-be assassin, hailing from Phong, Central Korea, is 21 (some say 23) years old, and is called Yi Obsi-mong. Ha i the United States Are the stadente to-day taken whole more wicked than those of for generations By what standard is the conduct of student to be judged? Who is there that possosees sufficient data to go on in deciding such questions as these? Yet numerous are the writers who affirm that in modern Japso among all young people morality is in a bad way. This, too, is the opinion of the present Minister of Education ant of certain high officials in that Department. The remedy for the low state of morals on which the authorities rely is the issue of orders to school teachers instructing them to insist on reform among the students, The leaders of various Christian sects, from their different points of view, have much to say on this subject. They all agree in holding that neither Imperial rescripts nor Departmental Orders will fu inds Vladivostok, which place, as may be noted en passant, is og mach a hot-bed of Korean intriguers ax San Francisco, where Mr D. W. Star Advisor to the Korean Goverament, was assassinated. Yi Chai-mong confesses he attempted to assassinate the Premier twice in October opponent of the amalgamation of Korea with 3 proposed by the Il-chin (Progressive) Society and favoured by the Tai-han (Great Korean) Society. He declares that he attempted to assassinate the Premier because the students of them saya that he diffe from the would-be assassin of the The "Seityo Shimpo, in " recent article entitled "The Dees; of Virtue and Materialistic Educatior goes into the whole subject. It is quite confident that it is only on the surface that modern Japanese are more virtaozs than their pre-Meiji ancestors, that in belief, integrity, friendly feeling towards each other, affection and modceaty there has been a tremendous falling off. Why the revelation which ushered in the Meiji era shoald have affected mor-
Premier, in that he, the speaker, would hare preferred to assassinate the President of the I-chin Society, Yi Yong-
The wounded Premier is still a comparatively young man. He assisted the ex-Emperor's flight to the Russi Legation afterithe Chino-Japanese bat subsequently became pro-Japanese, and expedited the first protectorate agreement with Japan, being at that time Minister of Finance, Then be-
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