MURDER LEAGUE IN KOREA.

Evening Post, Volume LXXIX, Issue 83, 9 April 1910, Page 13

MURDER LEAGUE IN KOREA.

The nucleus of a murdor lunguo iia> boon discovered in Seoul, ktatcs a Reuier telegram, as a result of tho investigation following the attempted assassination of tho Premier Yi. The wuuld-bo assassin was- not fully sucoes-ful, but tho victim, while ho may livo for some time, must bo un invalid for life Some wonderful surgical work was done in his caso at tho new hospital erected under ordors of tho lalo Prince Ito, and eooncd by him. The Korean who n:ndo the attempt on the life of tho Premie' hns confpsacel and «nen tho names of his associates. From this it would appear that thcro was a very close connection between tho assassination of Prince Ito of Harbin and the attempt on tho Premier. Tho prisonor in Seoul says thero was an organised plot to do away with all tho Korean Cabinet and tho loading Japanese ofliciuls. It is exneotod that a number of other arrests will bo made. Already the authorities have some fifteen men in gaol charged with being a part of the conspiracy, and it is said that tho end has not yot been reached, but that the developments now in the hands of the secret agents will startle oven tha Western countries and Governments. Certainly tho loaguo of assassins had a headquarters here in Seoul and another in Vlndivostock A branch i« Haid to bo in San Francisco, and the methods adopted in some of the cases indicate an imitation of the terrorist combinations of tho \Ve*t. A nuinbor of thrpateninK letters hava been received by leading men and by foreigners whp'uro known to bo advocates of tho Japanese control of Korea.