MURDER LEAGUE IN KOREA

Bay of Plenty Times, Volume XXXVIII, Issue XXXVIII, 18 April 1910, Page 4

MURDER LEAGUE IN KOREA

TLe nucleus "f a murder league ha been disco /ered in e'eou 1 , states ,s Reuter telegram, as a re3u!t of the inves:igi>tioii following the altem.iteti ufghssiiiHlioa of tlio pi carer Ti, Ths would-be ai fas&iii wa^ n-.t fully a«;c essful, bu: the victim, while he maj live for some time, must be an invalid for life. Some wonderful surgical worl w»8 done in bis case at the lie *' hospital erected under orders of the late Priace Ito, and opened b 7 him. The Korean who made the attempt on the life of the Premier has confessed and given the names of his associates. From this it would appear that there was a very close connection between the assassination of Princa Ito oi Harbin and the attempt on the Premiei The prisoner in Seoul says there was organised plot to do away with all the Korean Cabinet and the leading Japa nese officials. It is expected that a number of othei arrests will be made. Already th< authorities have some fifteen men it t r aol charged with being a part of th« conspiracy, and it is said that the enc has not yet been reached, but that tb< developments now in the hands of the secret agents will startle even the Western countries and Governments Certainly the league of assassins had a headquarters here in Seoul and anothei in Vladivoatock. A branch is said tc be in San Francisco, ' and the methods adopted in some of the cases indicate an imitation of the terrorist combina tions of the West. A number of threatening letters ha v« been received by leading men and by foreigners who are known to be advo. cates of the Japanese control of Korea.