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Show JAPS AND KOREANS ALL STIRRED UP Washington, July 11. A little iron box and a forlorn hone for the restoration restor-ation of Korean Independence together togeth-er with charges of forgery . agaloi? Clio, former Korean emperor's nephew, nep-hew, figure in an Incident that has stirred the Japanese and Koreans. Unofficial advices have reached tl. state department to the effect thi? the Toklo press has been much ereised over the case which grew oil .of the operations of a Koreau-Amerl-can syndicate represented by Minister Minis-ter of the Household Yl Yin Won, ae-J Minister of Education Yi Wan To:, nnd American Engineers Colbran ail Bostwick for the construction of rallroa1 at Seoul, the Korean car tal. The Korean house advanced large loan which was repaid by uV Americans to the brothers Yl their associates. Only a portioa ' It, however, according to the gtv7. was turnej over to the governmeElfc.' . (he Koreans. When the Korean emperor imp1 iently demanded the money, the At erlcan Interests showed a recflf-In recflf-In full with the emperor's seal. K or of Ihe Seal Cho was arrested f'' alleged Torgery. wblch he denied. U . a box which he Is said to have turi4 over to a foreign missionary said to hnve been the original copi of Korea's treaties with the principal western p..wers, secreted by the ttc-a rraperor at the time of Japan's a sumption of Korean admlnl6rfitici evidently In an effort to impede tb transfer of sovereignty or for sobJ-etpnfy sobJ-etpnfy or for subsequent use in & merlin ; independence. Several Japanese and Korean eC cials have been reprimanded in c njction with tho case. |