Kansas City daily journal. [volume] (Kansas City, Mo.) 1892-1897, 1895-05-20
NEWS FROM The ORIENT,
INTERESTING GOSSIP IN REFERENCE
TO CIIINo-JAPANEsE AFFAIRS.
~ lungs Son VIII BE the New Chinese
Minister to Japan = Corea's Methods
of Raising Funds-somcthing
About Formosa.

Washington May i9.-The latest budget,
OF mail received at the japanese. Chinese
/ and Corean legations at Washington Civ,
! much space as to the changed conditions
! Resulting from the war.
! LORD Lii son of Ii Hung Chang, is ex.
| pectcd TO be the new Chinese minister tc
! Japan The peace settlement will soon Il,
| followed by restoration OF diplomatic
/ relations. MIR. Otori. now a member oi
| the Japanese prlvy council. is mentioned
| as probable minister to China. He was
/ formerly minister to china and knows the
! country thoroughly. In an interview. Mr.
| Otcri tells the Japanese that, having aq-
| quired commercial access to China 1t will
need much tact to carry on trade with the
Chinese. He says British merchants have
already pretty well occupied Southern
China, which is the best field. so that the
Japanese had better turn their attention
TO the northern country where the mar
kets are comparatively untouched although
they supply millions of natives He gives
all the details Of Chinese trade, showing
among other things that tho natives never
pay cash for goods. They are sorupulously
honest. and have three regular pay days,
90 May o. July Ii and December 49, The
tax In Japan shows the conquests by it's
armies are to be followed by an equally
vigorous commercial campaign by the mer-
chants.
G9rea has passed through troublous
stationed at ali legations. Therc,,WinIirse
,,nrr ,nr syr, 1 n, nited states marines Wiz
quiet has been restored ar ,rh the armed armed
FdGras 6dWd h9Te ,b BEEN TSbs Mi,hdrahe Tong HaRS
In suppressing them ,ae GoVernment useu
nsStd fTs9 }ya sGrbed .yirbr "di dsrets aS re-
ports that wherever he went he saw
houses burned down eor,pseSS of, OF pG69i,e a6dn
doncd. This brought on mob agitation
which threatened Seoul and led .rt to the
iss%ers s' and a there here is laGIlity that they
The influence which Japan is now ex-
erting in the modernlzins of Corea is IN
M m eE thf tb@sa Fl Goqrt from the
recent outbreak. on this council of six
members, there are three Coreans and
The Coreari government recently de-
vised UNIQUE means Of raising much
was making heavy demands on China. and
that China was not in condition to resist;
orea RS aGns mgter 81 m noy Sc woJkI apa1
ese envoy, that Corea should also put In a
claim against China. Hearing that China
and Corea had suffered many calamities
therefrom, he, urged also that he should
lions and of meeing Ii Hung Chang at
Shimonoseki, where the japanese Chinese
terms were being arranged, Count Inoy
executed.
The loan of 100000 yen which Japan
made to Corea in order to put the country
on its feet. has begun to be paid Half a
million was turned over the LIST of last
month and the remaining two and half
millions is subject to call.
The Japanese are looking over the pos
sessions they have recently acquired. y
large force of expert surveyors are at
work in and around Port Arthur, with the
purpose Of finishing the survey by July,
although these plans may he altered. now
that the permanent possession of Port Ar
thur has been given up on account of the
protests of European powers. The investi-
cation as to the islands of Formosa and
Pescadores has not been encouraging, and
Chinese natives on the Pescadores seem
to be race of blinded people, about half
of them cropping about unable to see. The
place is almost a solid mass of coral. 1t
is used for building houses etc, giving a
beautiful red appearance to everything,
which, however, is Offset by the absence
of trees or verdure from the soil and by
the blindness everywhere Formosa gives
better prospects, and already capital is be-
ing invested to put In large sugar reiineries
which VIII, II is said add a new element
to the worlds sugar production.