Tokyo, May 18.
The censor is hard at work Korea and in Japan, No news regarding conditions in the former Hermit kingdom, except such gs is released by the authorities, is permitted to see the light of publicity.
Before the ban went into effect, however, sufficient was published in the Japanese press to warrant the idea that all fs far from well in Korea. A Japanese Christian mi-ulster who recently returned to Tokyo from Seoul declared that the entire peninsula is under police or military control, mounted police and mounted gendarmes being on duty night and day, especially in the larger i on Frequent attacks Japanese are almost added.
The Koreans, are many, but the immedi sons for the new recaleitrancy are traceable to the interference by the police of the Korean custom of mourning in public and to a quarrel regarding the personnel of the State funeral committee. The Japanese Government invited a number of Korean peers to be members of this committee, but Inter strife broke out amongst them and one daughters of another, brother of the Sultan.—Reuter,
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