Serious Revolt in Corea—Six Ministers Murdered.

Thames Star, Volume XV, Issue 4972, 16 December 1884, Page 2

Serious Revolt in Corea—Six Ministers Murdered.

Intelligence has been received from Corea, a Chinese tributary, of the outbreak of a revolt in that country. The rebels chose the occasion of a banquet which was being given by the King, to make an attack on the palace, and six Ministers were murdered by the rebels, but the King made his escape, and fled to the hills. So far as is known, the residents of the capital are safe, and a gunboat has arrived there to quell the reTolt.

London, December 15.

The Explosion at London Bridge.

The evidence of the experts who have examined the scene of the explosion which occurred under London Bridge, tends to show that the damage was effected by means of dynamite; the property in the vicinity of the bridge did not suffer any injury.

A FreS3 Association message of the Uth gays :—A quantity o f dynamite was

dropped on to one of the buttresses of London Bridge, on the Surrey side. The shock caused by the explosion was felt as far as Woolwich. No clue at present has been obtained as to the perpetrator of the outrage.

Vienna, December 14. 70 Miners Killed.

A disastrous colliery explosion occurred at Steyrildoof (? Sterdirof), Hungary. There were a large number of miners underground at the time, and 70 of them lost their lives.