Sensational Story from Dorca.

Te Aroha News, Volume VI, Issue 324, 12 December 1888, Page 4

Sensational Story from Dorca.

By the way of the New York ' Herald ' comes news of a queer ssemi - sensational story from Seoul, Corea. Condensed fropj a column this btory is, in substance, that the Coreans aLe in a ferment against all foreigners, who they accuso of eating fab little Corean boys nicely boiled. JSighfc men suspected of boiny; kidnapers are said to luivo been beaten to death in the streets of Seoul. In order to calm the storm a pioclainalion was sent out by the C'orean head of the Foreign Ofh'ce. Here are the mo^t ingenuous parts of it : ' Let all people read this and know then just what f,p do, Ib hiv? oome to our notice that the report is cit diluting through the slieets bf Seoul that foreigners, having bought our boys boil and cut them, and that the Corean kidnappers have been arrested. This report i.«, indeed, to be resetted. In ssuch times of enlistment how enn such things really exist? Humours on the streets, however, after they Im\o been repeated by three mouths, are at once s-aid to bo the real truth, and in this way these false reports have reached thih extent. * " * Remember that a man must be known to be a thief before he i^ called one.' Subsequently the King issued a proclamation offering ' <^50,000 ca*»h ' for the head- of a kidnapper or boy boilev.