RIOTING AT SEOUL.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXX, Issue 8493, 23 July 1907, Page 5

RIOTING AT SEOUL.

JAPANESE ATTACKED. FORTY KILLED AND WOUNDED. MINISTERS' HOUSES SACKED. Received July 22, 9.16 a.m. SEOUL, July 21. A number of Korean troops at Seoul escaped from barracks and scattered, attacking individual Japanese. General Hasegawa sent a detachment of Japanese dismounted cavalry to reinforce the police. Forty Japanese were killed or wounded. The Korean casualties are unknown. On Saturday the mob sacked and burned the residences of the Korean Premier and other Ministers. The Japanese guard dispersed the rioters, killing and wounding many. Received July 22, 9.37 p.m. SEOUL, July 22. General Hasegawa, Commander-in-Chief of the Corean Garrison, who controls 2,800 troops, will double the Japanese guards at the Palace, owing to the plot to murder the members of Cabinet who are taking refuge there. Received July 22, 10.14 p.m. SEOUL, July 22. Though the town is momentarily quiet a great influx of country folk causes an apprehension of fresh riots. The Korean troops possess 90,000 rounds of ammunition. Civilian agitators frequently harangue them. A few Japanese troops are guarding the two arsenals, and have been directed to destroy them if they are unable to defend them. Reinforcements are coming from Shimonoseki. The new Emperor has directed the punishment of the Korean deputation which went to The Hague.