CRISIS IN KOREA.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVIII, Issue 171, 19 July 1907, Page 5

CRISIS IN KOREA.

DETHRONEMENT PLOT.

EMPEROB. AND JAPAN.

(By Cable.—Press Association.—Copyright.) SEOUL, July 18. The Premier of Korea has asked the Emperor to abdicate in favour of the Crown Prince, owing to his action in sending a deputation to the Hague Convention. The Premier suggested that the Emperor should go to Tokio and apologise. The Emperor made no definite reply to the suggestion, and it is unlikely that he will yield without a struggle. TOKIO, July 18. Viscount Hayashi, Japanese Minister for Foreign Affairs, has sailed for Korea.

SITUATION EXPI*AINED,

E3&PEROR7S WILY PART. AJfTI-JAPANESE PXiACARDS.

(Received 8.27 a-m.)

SEOUL, July 18. The town of Seoul is now placarded with posters, demanding the death of Japanese officials.* It appears that one Korean delegate died at The Hague while the head of the mission was absent on a visit to St. Petersburg. LONDON, July 18. The " Times" says that though the Court at Seoul was surrounded by Japanese the Emperor maintained an agent outside the kingdom, and that it was this individual who surreptitiously dispatched the mission to The Hague and St. Petersburg, hence the Premier's demand for the Emperor's resignation.

MINISTRY RESIGNS.

(Received 12.16 p.m.)

TOETO, July 18. It is understood that the Korean Ministry has resigned.

[The trouble in Korea has arisen through the Emperor's alleged complicity (which he had previously denied) in the sending of a Korean deputation to the Hague Conference. As this was obviously against the principle of political dependence upon Japan, affirmed and strengthened in a series of treaties, the Conference refused to admit the delegates to its meetings. There is reason to believe that the Emperor, at least, paid the expenses of the deputation.]