JAPAN AND KOREA.

Colonist, Volume XLIX, Issue 11995, 23 July 1907, Page 3

JAPAN AND KOREA.

the! situation at Seoul. severe encounter with mutineers. ministers' homes sacked AND BURNT, Seoul, July 21. A number of Korean troppS at Seoul mutinied on Friday. They escaped from barracks and scattered, attacking individual Japanese. General Hasegawa sent a detachment of Japanese dismounted cavalry to reinforce the Police. In the encounter 40 Japanese were killed or wounded by the mutineers. lne Korean casualties are unknown. On Saturday the mob sacked and burned the residences of ..tho Korean Premier and other Ministers. . The Japanese guard dispersed the rioters, killing and wounding many. Received July 22, 9.37 p.m. Seoul, July 22. General Nasegawa,who controls two thousand eight hundred troops has doubled the Japanese guards at the Palace owing to the^lot to murder the members of the Cabinet who are taking refuge there. Received July 22, ,10.14 p.m. Though the town is momentarily quiet, I great influx of country folk causes apprehension of fresh riot*. The Korean troops possess 90,000 rounds of ammunition, and civilian agitators frequently harangue them. The few Japanese guarding the two arsenals have been directed to destroy them if they are unable to | defend them, but leinforcements are coming from Shimonoki. . ( The new Emperor has directed punishment of the deputation which went to The Hague.