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Show KOREAN MINISTER MAD Japanese Insistence Had Due Enect at Seoul. VICTORIA. B. C. Dec. 20 Rev. S. H. C'artwrlght. an Anglican missionary from Seoul, Korea, who arrived by the steamer Kanngawa today, says the Japanese Jap-anese coup d'etat which resulted In the protecorate being declared over Korea involved considerable pressure being brought upon the Korean Emperor and cabinet, but he disbelieves the reports that the ruler and cabinet were coerced with bayonets Minister Han Goes Mad The Emperor and Ministers Han and Mln held out against the Japanese Finally Fin-ally after an all-night session with Marquis Ito, when the Japanese were Insistent that the treaty be signed. Minister Han became mad and ' broke Into the Korean Emperor's apartment! stark naked, after tearing his cloth, s Into strips Later when the treaty was signed Minister Mln. as told In cables, committed suicide. Palace Was Guarded Rev. Mi. Cart wright said the Korean palace was constantly guarded during the negotiations and no one was permitted per-mitted to h ave by the Japanese soldiers sol-diers until the treaty was signed. Just what the pressure brought upon the Korean rulers was. no one outside the palace knew. He discredits the stories that the Japanese Jap-anese dispossessed Koreans of their lands to make military stations and says a commission w us appointed with Koreans reported to arrange compensation compensa-tion for the land-owners |