Show arwen for sul paper ja FM OK ed by frnk frank G carpenter au STOUL corea july 17 1894 NE of the causes of trouble lii between tween japan a and n d china and add the beginning gin ning in fact of ohp present rebellion in corea w was a a the assassination of kirn kim ok diun at shanghai diun after r his famous couil rwan corea fled tp japan apo and hew he was iota long 00 t time ime under the protect protection io n of anz age government he was in in ed over to shanghai and was there gasn bated by a friend of the king of crep prea japan almost claimed him as a at 94 and 14 she se tho thought u ht that his mur wr t and his remains should should have been cried to io tokio li hung chang the comeans in transporting them taiD W lace too and the maltry maltreatment adment of py if ot of kj kim m W was Is probably tore foreseen seen chang when he gave the w fw the e vessel of 04 av war ar to aitse bad body YO to corea thia thi country tt a strange 0 mixture of barbarism ano and ua if 14 is almast incredible that thae whose souls are full of BB whose tastes are I 1 believe flatly refined rounded mind and who an prid de them b bang ng bisci disciples I 1 e of confucius I 1 in the w way y they ey did dd with km his body bodi was brought here Is j it was cut into pieces aad and fe fw p parts of it have fiade been cari car er the aoun country and hung bung up ask aa a to traitors tors A above ve the biggest the largest of tho th corean oala offos wot wad with joy oy when the op came 0 A g af pf the a assassination bu busi ill 1 VO ap Aw suspended ended and the court de to kopting and dan dancing c ing I 1 d th that 44 6 of those frail probes maidens known as gesang or K girls were brought into the te jwia ig aamlie go night and when I 1 the other day one of these almonde almond eyed ed e glinc Q back home after r her mu at the capital she was on k riding astride and she had t couple of sergiu servants its with ber her hw tale of kim ok klant kina lif md death reads more like a romonce romance cipf pf the gark dark ages than the story of actual doings in this year of our lord eighteen ninety four it t will have a great in aenice upon coreas future and in it are comprised events which have materially affected the thi governments of this part of the world china and japan are mixed up in it and it is largely the cause of the war clouds which are now hovering over asia russia is deeply concerned by it and england is is now trembling at the possibility of its results upon her indi indian an e empire mp re this little land landof of corea Js is the key to eastern asia it if the czar gets hisholm his hold upon it china will probably be subjugated by the russians and a door will be opened for fora a russian army into Hin doostan and burmah corea is within only a few hours sail said of japan it is separated from china by a wall of stakes the lower boundary of siberia touches it and russia japan and china would all be glad to call cotea corea theirs the most famous statesmen of the japanese empire ire were it is said behind kim ok viens khuns rebellion and it is charged that hat a japanese led the rebels in the fights with the kings troops of a few days ago the rebellion of ten years ago and the rebellion of today are in the interests of modern progress as far as the japanese are concerned and there is no doubt but that corea will come out oi of the fight in a better condition than she halev has ever er been in the past kim ok diun got his idea of changing the corean government L rovern ment and of tho the introduction of western civilization through his resi residence denoe in jn japan he saw what had bete done there and he tried ab 0 o play the same game in corea less than a generation ago japan was in almost as barbarous a condition as china it is today it was ruled by feudal lords and their soldiers went about maltreating mal treating the common people as they pleased the mikado was merely a puppet in the hands of the navy and the real ruler was the commander in chief of them the troops now japan is one of the civilized lands of the lace face of the globe it h has as aj a postal system as good as ours it has as adopted the national banking system its ts common schools and universities are everywhere its people have their parliament and every japanese has his rights the cities turn out newspapers by the million a year and property is sate safe the is making money it is one of the richest on the globe and its public debt is practically nothing the MW epry y of its s change is the mst most wonderful ma vage page of history there is nothing liked like it i in the space of less than it has jumped further farther on 04 the road to 1 civilization civilisation chaa say any other ober now na kaaa aa done aw and today it is mp more e civilized than any any country Opt outside of europe except the united states it has a fine arthy army and a dapower power ful nw ivy and it isa is a giant which may make china notwithstanding ho her mil lions kneel this revolution was as accomplished complis hed by japanese statesmen men who held stich positions posit tons as kim ok diun held in in corea and it was froin lia them that kim kidi got his idea of revola v lionizing hit his own country corea like japan was for yom years agnf fawk 4 out from the rest of the world foreigners dared not land upon its shores no one knew anything about the land in fact until twelve years ago when our owai admiral made the first treaty and opened the country to tw the civilized world commodore perry you kno know opened japan and the tact that america was the first to open corea and that it has always been friendly to the country is one of the reasons wily why the king would like to have the united states step in and help him in his present trouble before corea had been opened however kim ok diun had told the king of the wonderful changes tha going on in in japan chehad he had fled there secretly in order to its civilization and in connection with another corean named so kwang pom had spent some years in the country they came back with the idea of inducing the king to adopt the new civilization at this time however the kings father was practically the ruler of corea he is a bad mas mao and he hates christianity and western methods lie he killed thousands of native christians and he charged kim with trying to induce christianity into corea the result was that kim came near losing his headband hea dand he had to flee the kings father in fact fomented a rebell rebellion ibn and durin during W this the chinese troops were called by him into corea nominally to protect the kingdom he had all a along favored China and during this rebellion he tried to have the queen killed he failed in t this and it was through her eatn family 1 ilk and friends that the re revolution did not suc succeed and the king was made the real ruler of the people the kings dings father fathia vias was banished he has since returned to corel and I 1 aaa him riding in in state irate the othe day through the main street of seoul after the rebellion was over kim ok diun and so kwang pom came back here they aided I 1 think in makin making the treaty with the united states ail and began to plan for the introduction of modern ya on ambassadors were sent peat to and they returned ped full of new ideas and schemes for or tho we moderia I 1 atton of the country tl w these M min in yong ilk ik who is related to both the king ki ng and queen and who was one of th the e most influential of the progression ests the foreigners from all the greatest nations established themselves at the capi capital tall and corea seemed to be on the same road as japan kirn kim had bad at this time the implicit confidence of his bis majesty aj y he e was head ea of the colonization on za department de ent was vice vice president of the fore foreign office and had undertaken the establishment of a modern modem postal system for the country he had begun to build a mint electric lights had been ordered from align america i ca for the palace and a body of caan cabets cadets ca deti had been be sent from japan and drill drilled edby by the soldiers there they had come back and the king had bad given them important positions in the palace the chinese instructors tors of the troops bad been dismissed and gatling guns were ordered from america in the meantime the anti foreign spirit began to rise the chinese saw that they and their civilization were losing ground every day they felt that cores corea was slipping anav from them slipping and they did all all they could to foment trouble they soon hao bad a party in their tavor prince min yong ili ik changed his policy and leaned toward the Chinese and the country was in a short time divided upon the lines filles of progress and anti progress or in orther words upon those ot of china and japan it is divided in the same way today china represents the old regime japan sta stands ads in in the place ot of modern progress and civilization there are two parties now as there were then and it may be sai said d that these parties are headed by the families of the king and queen the queens family is very strong in corea the chief officials who have been squeezing squeezing I 1 the count country to death belong to it and I 1 am told that at they favor the chinese they did so ten years ago and it was through them that a large part of the kings revenues went to the paying of chinese troops who traveled about the country acting in the most impudent way kim ok diun saw with alarm the growth of this chinese element As vice president ot at the foreign office he had bad to pay the bills of many contracts which were made with the japanese but there was no money in the treasury he decided to overthrow the existing exist government to seize the king an and I 1 through him rule corea after modern methods he had influential friends to help him and his conspiracy came to a head just about ten years ago it was the night of december 4 1884 shenew the new postal service had just been opened the first mail had been sent that d day from here to the seacoast at chem u at po and the new postmaster general n was giving 1 v ving a dinner in honor 0 of the event the the leading foreigners had rushed in and taken up their residence in seoul as soon as the country was opened and a party of these noble comeans and generals were at the table doing justice to the feast the dinner was at its height when an alarm of fire was raised and it was reported that the house of the crown prince was in flames now according to the customs ot of this tun country one of the two generals in chief of the dhermy army has to go to every fire that occurs in the capilato capi capital tato he organizes the forces lot lor its suppression and reports upon it to the king general min yong ik rose from the table and rushed for his horse A few moments later he was brought back with his body covered with blood he had a saber cut across his face and a half dozen serious wounds upon his person dr H N allen alien an ohio man then connected with the presbyterian medical mission here was called in he took charge ot of him and it was by his skill that an almost miraculous cure was effected no corean could have saved him and it was through this treatment that dr allen alien became the most influential foreigner in corea the king and queen treated him anast as one of their family ind and it is though him that the american missions have so prospered and that the influence of the united states is today superior to that of any other nation in the world but this is another story in the meantime while this was going on kim ok diun and one 0 of f his confederates fe federates ran to the palace they stationed the japanese cadets cabets at th the e gates ates and permitted no one but their friends friends to enter they told the king that the chinese soldiers sold aers were going to overthrow the government and capture him they charged some of the officials with being in the plot and urged him to fleer with them general han was present he objected to the kin kings Is going i n g wi with th K kim m whereupon kim kicked hi him im and told him he was a traitor to the king his majesty believed kirns kims story and he gave him his royal seat kim took this and sent for his most influential ial enemies As soon as they arrived at the palace they were told to go to a certain room where the king was and as they entered the door kirns kims cadies cabets sliced off their heads the king before this had been taken to another part of the palace and word was sent to the japanese legation asking for its troops to come to the palace to protect the king in the meantime the chinese legation saw what was going on they were I 1 think under the same man who is now minister at corea and who by the he way is one of the shrewdest diplomats wal of the world and who has I 1 am told all the ft HiTO gance and the in input d ence that the chinaman shows w when ven ever he gets the upper hand with his troops he attempted to take the palace the corean comeans came to his assistance and kim saw the game was up he fled first with the king to a temple back oi of the palace but the next day he allowed the chinese to get possession of his majesty and surrounded by his japanese guard fled to and sailed for japan since then he has been under the protection of the japanese government and it is only through them that his life has been preserved so long the true story of kim ok khuns taking kofl on has not been told I 1 get it almost direct from his assassin he is now nominally in prison and he cannot be brought into the presence of the king until thirty days from the time he has touched a dead body this is according to corean custom he is well treated however and when a month has passed every one expects he will be called to court and receive a high official position for his bloody murder this mans life would make a plot for a ahne novel and hit his assassination of kim was done not because he hated him but in order that he might carry i out a pet scheme of vengeance which has I 1 am told been the mainspring of his actions for years the man who gave me my information is a corewit official from the northern part of the co country un tr y who is a close frie friend n d of 0 f the assassin and who was in seoul at the time of kirns kims rebellion he came to s me almost directly after a talk with the assassin and the man inan told him just hw how he had killed kim at shan shanghai bai and bloated over it as he related why he id it A more villainous act I 1 nevi never r heard described the assassins name nam is hong chong chongkoo Chon woo ith he is a man ot 0 about forty years of age he was born bore 3 near here and when he was still I 1 yo youir his father moved to the island of qs 4 part here hong got an office ceHe was a very unjust official and he levied all sorts of unfair taxes he squeezed the people until they were almost starve stara ing n and at last they rose in rebellion and egl mobbed him the satorv of his oppressions oppress ions getting out hong saw that out he could no longer stay in Qu duehart Quel ehart part ww aad he went away vowing vengeance the people whom he had oppresses f he told his friends that he was goime to japan and that he proposed to learn leamae A about modem civilization he would come back in the course of years to i an appointment wader ithe the king by the aid of his knowledge knowledg xe he would work his way up to lucli a position as would eventually give him te control of his old tax district at anel ane pr part and he would then squeeze the out t of the he people that killed his mother this story will souni sound 4 like a tate tale of when r read ead in the united states it does not sound so ab here at a any rate hon hong went to jacw z 1 he studied trench french and Ja calanese lanese japanese there until he became a good enough french scholar to 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