Show japanese br bed korean minister victoria the emperor of korea fought a lone handed fight de sorted by his ministers vainly trying to prevent marquis coup to make korea a japanese protectorate ac cording to advices from seoul by the steamer athelan the ministers de sorted one by one and were imme excessively opulent the pres ence of 30 japanese troops at seoul overawed the emperor an at tempt was made to assassinate the ministers of the interior war and jus tice who had been bought by japan but was frustrated by japanese troops |