Evening star., 1895-07-12
Japanese Government Preventing
Editorial Criticism.
GAGGIEG THE OPPOSITION PRESS
Count Ito and Colleagues viii Re-
main in Office.
ALLEGED RUSSIAN ADVANCES

SAN FRANCISCO, July 1.-THE steamer
Gaelic arrived today with the following
Japanese adyices:
TOXIC. June 29.-Viscount Nomura, home
minister. is the busiest man in the Japa-
nese cabinet Foreign affairs, except Corea,
demand no immediate attention, and the
government is chiefly occupied in devils
ing measures for checking internal politi-
cal ag;tations. The methods Of Viscount
Nomura are far more sweeping and dras-
tic than any previously employed in Japan.
He Is determined that no newspaper shall
continue to assail the administration for
alleged failure to sustain the national Dig
nifty in the recent difficulty with the three
European powers, and that no public meet
ings shall be held by the parties in oppo-
sition, with view Of forcing Count Ito
and his colleagues out Of office.
Press suspensions are enforced at the
slightest sign Of an intention to overstep
the prescribed limit of editorial criticism
Prominent radical leaders are arrested and
brought to trial for endeavorfng to organ
ize demonstrations hostile to the govern
ment throughout the empire. Count Ito ap-
pears to have definitely resolved that he
will not resign his position in obedience to
the demand Of the populace. and he can
probably keep his enemies at distance
until the meeting Of parliament in Novem-
Der. Then the real struggle Will begin.
Reform in COrea.
Count Inouyie has reported the results OF
his experience as an envoy to Corea, and
Is ready to formulate his opinion with
reference to the future policy of Japan in
Corea- He will probably advocate continu-
arce Of efforts to introduce reforms and
build up a respectable system Of govern
ment, but 1t Is not certain this advice will
SUIT the present disposition of the Japanese
-k-k- sc rtnrr ho-
ginning to look upon the regeneration OF
Corea as a hopeless undertaking.
The Japanese people. however, adhere to
the conviction that the feeble monarchy
must not be abandoned, and would de-
nounce the REIMBURSEMENT of the original
project as surrender to Russian dicta-
ton.
Count Inouyie declares the Japanese resi-
dents are to blame for all the existing ILL
feeling in Corea- The Japanese behavior
toward the natives, he says, is simply in
tolefable, and he does not wonder the Chi
nese are better liked. As to the Corean
its reluctance to institute speedy reforms.
Home Minister FAX. who has been ac-
cused Of especial hostility to the Japanese,
10 praised by Inouyie as having done moth
Ing but his duty In resisting extravagant
demands for impossible privileges.
Russia and Japan.
Reports are current of conciliatory ad-
vances on tha part of Russia toward Japan.
There are strong reasons for believing the
government at st. Petersburg has instruct
ed its representative in Toxic to address
himself to the task Of allaying the irrita-
ton caused by the recent demonstra tion
against the Japanese territorial scheme in
Manchurta- and to discuss plans for re-
storing cordial relations between the two
nations Russia is said to be willing to ex-
plain. In friendly sense, the objections to
Japanese expansion on the continent, and
to give assurances that she will not op-
pose the growth of the island empire in
other directions. but will. on the contrary,
regard such growth with satisfaction.
Japan Is requested to believe that the in
p terests of her powerful neighbor would be
materially served by the consolidation of
Japanese strength in the Pacific, and If
guarantees can be given that no interfer-
ence will be attempted in Russia's projects
for the development of Siberia, an alliance
may be formed on terms mutually bene-
fetal. This proposal. semi-ofiicialfy con-
yeyed, has occupied the attention of the
japanese ministers Of state for several
weeks past.
The Anti-Mfssionary Troubles.
No definite in Intelligence from the mission
aries confined at Cheng Tu has been re-
ceiyed Whether the telegraph lines in the
interior of Gze-Chuan province are really
broken or their use is prohibited by the To-
cal authorities, no dispatches can be trans
mitted-
A report Is circulated that the members
OF the American Baptist mission have es-
capped to Chung King. and confirmation of
this news is eagerly awaited. The apathy
of the Tsung Ii Yamen in responding to
the appeals of foreign ENJOYS for speedy
action has compelled the representative Of
France to take a decided step. By his or
ders. four French ships-of-war have started
up the kang Use river, with instructions to
make forcible demonstration at Marking,
and to proceed to such extremities as the
case may demand.
The latest advices from Tormosa state
that all opposition to the Japanese occupa-
ton has subsidized A colored seaman of the
United States ship Yorktown. named Bush.
has been imprisoned at Nagasaki, on a
charge of numbering Japanese iaborers.
The Osaka mint is exclusively occupied
II coming one-ye1 silver pieces. Of which
one hundred and :hirty thousand are pro-
diced daily. The object Of this sudden and
unusual output is unkaown. The silver yen
ara Fever needed for domestic circulation in
Japan-
The japanese consulate at Shanghai was
reopeied June q. Consulates at other Chi
nese ports will be opeaed early In July.