Daily Kennebec journal., 1894-12-25
4 COMPLICATED ROW.
japan Knows Not What to Do After the wa
is Ended.

| ,aper adyices received here from Japan
| show that the question of the terms OF
ocaee that Japan will demand from China
| "a fruitful subject of discussion by the
native press Opinions, however, differ
,egarling these terms, and while some
Journals content themselves with speak
hgr generally on the subject, others are
more specific in their demands.
One paper asserts that Formosa, i'm
oor5ant from commercial and military
point of view. must at all events be taken.
After detailing what an immense expen-
ii,,lre must tie incurred by Japan in sup
porting Corea and protecting japanese in
erests in the north of China following
he war the paper declares that Formosa
will have to be annexed as resource
from whicl; to draw receipts at least equal
10 these prospect i've expenditures.
Another paper enters a strong protest
against TIE claims advanced that China
nust surrender territory entirely out Of
proportion 10 the objects for which the
Tar was undertaken.
Assuming that the war is practically
over, the Japanese are already discussing
the matter of Japan's prospects there
after. Mr.. Kaneko, the vice minister of
state for agriculture and commerce, has
been looking into the history of the United
States after the great civil war and to
hat of Germany after the Franco Prus-
sian war for light on the subject, and the
Noshonusho has been holding consulta-
tions abo;it the matter for some time, but
he Investigations are far from concluded.
The vice minister is personally of the
opinion that the extension of facilities for
lirect (xpor6ation is
OF the Greatest Importance.
According to IL Seoul correspondent,
afuirs are again becoming serious in
Curca, wherc there is trouble, in which
Tai Won Kun, who is understood here to
be practically prime minister, is involved.
It hal its origin in the surrender of Ii
Hciki, IL favorite of Tai Won Kun, to the
Corean police, in whose custody he is now
held
III HciSi, it appears, took part in all the
deliberations OF the faction headed by the
aged statesman, and is therefore ac-
quaintcd with it's secrets. Shortly after
wards he was made police official, and
had frequent occasions to meet members
Of the Japanese police now in the capitol.
Intercourse with the latter gave him an
insight into the real intentions enter
talned toward COrea by Japan.
Thus newly enlightened, says the cor
respondent, bis hatred of the crooked ar
tifices and ignorant devices of the faction
with which he had been connected grew
intense, and conscience finally drove him
drove him to confess to the police officials
what he knew of the factions doings. He
was placed in confinement and, although
implored by several of the parties against
whom he had informed not to confess, he
made clean breast of all he knew and
had done.
Some objections were made by the
Corean government to the demands of
the Japanese minister, Count Inouye, for
the examination of witnesses implicated
in the affair, the Coreans asserting that
such proceedings would be contrary to the
time-hunored usage of the country. The
result of this collision between Count
Inouye and the Corean government was
not clearly known at the time the CORE.
spondent wrote.
Nipped In the Bud.
Letters, by means of which the faction
instigated the Tonghak insurgents, to-
gether with other documents bearing on
the same point, and secret dispatches sent
by Tai Won Kun to the Chinese gem
erals in the Phyong Yang, have all fallen
into the hands of the Japanese authori-
ties, and the sinister project of the old
gentleman and his followers against
Japan. the correspondent adds, is now an
open secret.
Since these events transpired. news
has come to the United States by tele-
graph to the effect that the japanese gov
ernment has dispensed with the services
of Tai Won Kun" and the natural pre-
sumption is that this action was the re-
suit of the occurrences referred to.
fractional strife in the Corean court is
said by another paper to be the prime
cause of all the evils now hampering the
country's progress along the path of re-
form. Lately. another bone of contention
has been superadded to accentuate the
political confusion already existing in the
field of politics. 1t is a question relating
to the parentage of prominent members of
the government, and the present trouble
had its origin in the old time Corean sys-
tenn of concubinage
Losses Were Heavy.
A japanese paper gives a summary of
the losses of the japanese and Chinese
armies up to Nov. %, exclusive of the
battles at Fung- Wang Chang Kinchan,
Talen-W Wan and ut Port Arthur. 1t
shows that the japanese lost about 33G
killed and S35 wounded, while the Chinese
lost 1890 killed and $500 wounded, and
1913 of them were made captives. making
a total of 10,3lS.
The Chinese have also had 2l1 cannon
taken away from them, 1895 rifles, 36,3Si
cannon shot, 43,0oo,660 cartridges, beside
enough ammunition to last q month, fir.
ing with 20 600 rifles; 1888 banners have beer
taken, 3400 tents, 1000 horses, 3000,000
taels' worth of gold and silver. 1ll,00J
mace coins, 2il3 koku of rice, 57755 koku of
unhulled rice, and in addition sufficient
food to last an army of 10000 men three
lays.
The Chinese have lost 13 vessels, tor
pado boat, five men>of-war sunk, and one
of their war vessels captured, which makes
q total tonnage of $3.50 tons. The number
Of killed and wounded on the Japanese
side is estimated at over 400, while those
of the enemy is estimated at nine times
that number.