The Trouble in Corea.

Wairarapa Daily Times, Volume XV, Issue 4784, 27 July 1894, Page 2

The Trouble in Corea.

Japan Apologises to the British Government.

Yokohama, July 24. Tlio Japaneso Government lu(s : apologised for the assault on tho I British Consul at Seoul, explaining! that the soldiers were ignorant of his identity, and merely desired to prevent him from entering the military lines, j , ..:,.'■ PAi|is,July2s; i . U Temps urges. ,the-, powers 'to insist on China and Japan making peaoo, andtq protect the treaty ports in Cqrea by means qf the fleets! /It adyjses Oliina to withdraw from hor Position, ami, institute the informs m the cqnntry suggested by Japan. It is stated, however, ; tlmt China intends to. send another large.fee. tqCqrea.'i r'diJlfd: Ju? :JT'} ■ ■.-_, --v;.. v ■ JjOXAQX,. July 25::,'t • I ,the,engagement in Oorea' show that the Corean Pft] ac i guards were tho assailants. They attacked, the Japanese troops,-■• but woeasily.wuted,■'.-,-. .?'

The Japanese authorities punished V'||||i the solders who assaulted the British 'iQSm Consul/ The apology denies that A i extreme violence was offered. The English Government haß tho apology. %M Li Hung Chang, Prime Minister <M of China, has six month's amimmi> \ts& tion, and 30,000 Chineso troops are *PM mobilised at Tientsin, near Pekin 4T| War lisks have not yet been \M charged on vessels trading kM I and Japan. "( "%