Show RESULTS SOFTIE EASTERN WAR Changed Conditions Are Noted in Very Many Places CHINESE AND HONESTY CHNSE Quiet Has Been I Restored in Corea In Suppressing the Tonehaks the Government Was Coninelied to I rse Great Severity Corean Loan 1y Japan lias Besrun to lc Rapid I Japanese c arc Looking Over the I Possessions They Have Recently Acquired Prospects of Formosa Washington May 19Te latest bugets of mail receivedat the Japanese at ese Chinese and Corean legations Washington give much space to the changed conditions resulting from the war Lord Lo son of Li Hung Chang is expected to be the new Chinese minister min-ister to Japan The peace settlement will soon be followed by a restoration of diplomatic relations Mr Otori now a member of the Japanese privy council is mentioned a a probable minister to China He was formerly minister to China and knows the country thoroughly In an interview inter-view Mr Otori says the Japanese having hav-ing acquired the commercial access to China it will need much tact t carryon carry-on trade with the Chinese He says British merchants have already pretty well occupied Southern China which is the best field s that the Japanese had better turn their attention to the north ern country where the markets are comparatively untouched although they supply millions of natives He gives all the denials of the Chinese trade showing among other things that the natives never pay cash for goods They are scrupulbusly honest and have three regular pay days on May 5 July 15 and December 13 The talk i Japan shows the conquests by Its armies are t be followed by an equally by the merchants vigorous commercial campaign Troublous Times Corea has passed through troublous times of late The foreign ministers feared an outbreak and armed guards were stationed at all ton There were thirty United States marines with Minister Sill at Seoul Quiet has been restored and the armed guards have been withdrawn The trouble followed the rebellion ol the Tonjjhaks In suppressing them the government used great severity A traveler that lately returned from the disturbed districts reports that where ever he went he saw houses burned down corpses of murdered people and town ¼ desolated and abandoned This brought on mob agitation which threatened Seoul and led to the armed defence of the legations The authorities authori-ties at Seoul are ting the ringlead and there is a liability that they will be decapitated The influence which Japan is now exerting in the modernizing of Cora is indicated by the formation of a court council to look after the suffering suffer-ing from the recent outbreak Of this council of six members there are three Coreans and three Japanese Tho Corean government recently devised de-vised an unique means of raising muchneeded revenue Observing that Jat > an was making heavy demands on China and that China was Jot ir a I condition to resist the acting minister of public works of Core suggested to I Count Inoy the Japanese envoy tat Corea should also put 4n a claim for damages against China Hearing that Chinas arbitrary course had brought on the war and as Corea had suffered many calamaties therefrom he urged also that he should personally undertake under-take the duty of negotiating and of meeting LI Hung Chang at Chimon eski where the JapaneseChinese terms were then being arranged Count Inoy discouraged the project and it was not executed The Loan to Coren The loan of 3000000 yen which Japan made to Corea in o der to put the country on its feet has begun to be paid Half a million was turned over tIe first of last month and the remaining remain-ing two and a half million is subject to call by Corea The Japanese are looking over the possessions they have recently acquired acquir-ed A large force of expert surveyors are at work in and around Port Arthur with the purpose of finishing the survey sur-vey by July although these plans may be altered now that the permanent possession of Port Arthur has been given up on account of the protests or the European powers The investi jrntinns as tn ihp islivnirfe f TiYrrmn < I I and the Pescad reshas not been encouraging The Chinese natives I on the Pescadores seem to be a I race of blind people about half of them I groping about unable to see The place is almost a solid mass of coral I is used fO building houses etc giving I giv-ing a beautiful red appearance to i everything which however is offset by the absence of trees or verdure from the soil and by the blindness everywhere Formosa gives better prospects and already capital is being invested to put in large sugar refineries tnere which will it is said add anew a-new element to the worlds sugar production |