The herald., 1895-05-20
Greatly Changed Condition of
Affairs in China
THE DIPLOMATIC RELATIONS
LII Hung Chang's Son Has Some Great
Expectations
Troublous Times In Corea Are Over and the
King Is Repaying the Loan
f1ade by Japan
Associated Press Special Wire

ASsoclateu PresS special wire
WASHINGTON. May l9.-The latest
budgets of mail received at the Japanese,
Chinese and Corean legations at Washing
ton give much space to changed condi
tiohs resulting from the war. Lord
Wang. son of III Hung Chang, is expected
to be new Chinese minister to Japan.
The settlement will soon be followed by
restoration of diplomatic relations.
Mr.. Glori, now member of the Japan
ese privy council, is mentioned as a prob
able minister to China. He was formerly
minister to China and knows the coun-
try thoroughly. In an interview Mr..
Otori mot Glori) says the Japanese hav-
ing acquired commercial access to
China. it will need much tact to carry on
trade with the Chinese. He says British
merchants have already pretty well occu
pied southern China, which is the best
field, so that the Japanese had better turn
their attention to the northern country,
where the markets are comparatively un-
touched, although they supply millions of
natives. He gives all the details of the
Chinese trade, showing among other
things that these natives never pay cash
for goods. They are scrupulously honest
and have their regular pay days. on May
9TH, July 18th and December 18th. The
talk in japan shows the conquests by It's
armies are to be followed by an equally
vigorous commercial campaign by the
merchants.
Corea has passed through the troub-
lous times of late. The foreign minister
feared an outbreak and armed guards
were stationed at all legations. There
were thirty United States marines with
Minister Sale at Seoul. Quiet has been
restored and the armed guards have been
withdrawn. The trouble followed the
rebellion of the Tong Haks. In suppress
ing them the government used great
severity. A traveller who lately returned
from the disturbed district reports that
wherever he went he saw houses burned
down, corpses of murdered people and
towns desolated and abandoned. This
brought on mob agitation, which threat
ened Seoul and led to the armed defense
of the legations. The authorities at Seoul
are trying the rlngleaders and there is
liability that there will be decapitation.
The influence which Japan is now ex-
erting in the modernizing of Corea is in
Gil to look after the suffering caused by
the outbreak. This council of SIX mem
bers is composed of three Coreans and
three japanese. The Corean government
recently devised an unique means of rails
ing much needed revenue. Observing
that Japan was making heavy demands
on China and that China was not in a
condition to resist, the acting minister of
public works OF Corea suggested to Count
lnoy. the japanese envoy, that Corea
should also put in a claim for damages
against China. Hearing that China ar
bitrary course had brought on the war
and as Corea has suffered many calami
ties therefrom he urged also that he
should personally undertake the duty of
negotiating and of meeting Iii Hung
nese-Chinese terms were then being ar
ranged. Count Inoy discouraged the
project and it was not executed.
sThe loan of 3.0O0,O 900 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 first of last |
month, and the remaining two and a half
million is subject to call by Japan
The Japanese are looking over the pos
sessions they have lately acquired. A
large force of expert surveyors are at
work in and around Port Arthur, with |
he purpose of finishing the survey by ,
July, although these plans may be altered |
now that the permanent possession of |
Port Arthur has been given up on ac-
count of the protests OF European powers. |
The investigation as to the islands of
Formosa and Pescadores has not been |
encouraging. The Chinese natives on the
Pescadores seem to be race of blind |
people, about half of them cropping about.
unable to see. The place is almost a
solid mass of coral. 1t is used for build
ing houses, ETC., giving beautiful rel
appearance to everything. which. how
ever, is offset by the absence OF trees or
verdure in the soil and by the blindness
everywhere. Formosa gives better pros
poets and already capital is being invest
ed to put in large sugar refneries which
will, it is said, add a new element to the
world s'sugar production.