The San Francisco call. [volume] (San Francisco [Calif.]) 1895-1913, 1897-01-08
JAPAN'S FOREIGN
POLICY DEFINED
Important Speeches of the
New Minister, Count
Okuma.
Mrs. Carew's Trial Promises to
Be One of the Most Sen
sational on Record.
Barbarcus Executions by the Cour
of Korea-Chinese Roughs Tor
ture Catholic Priest

TOXIC, JAPAN, Dec. 22.-The Minister
of Foreign Affairs Count Okuma, has de-
livered several important spec ches since
he came into office. His policy, as defined
in these utterances, may be briefly
summed up thus: An attitude of grateful
friendship toward western powers; an at
titude of sympathy and helpfulness to-
ward China, and an attitude of watchful
readiness toward Korea. The Count is
very outspoken about the ill-behavior of
his nationals in Korea and about the ad-
ministrative plumbers committed in For
mosa.
The trial of Mrs. w. R. II. Carew, for
the willful murder OF her husband by
poisoning, is set to commence on January
4 in her Britannia Maiesty's Court at
Yokohama. Crown Advocate III. S. Will
kinson has come from Shanghai TO assist
the Yokohama Crown Prose cutor, II. c.
Litchield, in conducting the prosecution.
Sixty British residents of Yokohama have
been summoned for the jury. Five only
will be actually needed, but counsel on
both sides are expected to exercise great
discrimination. The case promises to be
one of the most sensational on record.
IAO AOISdu VI Vic AOhtO
papers state that Ku Sou Chang, an ex-
police inspector of the court, arrested
some days ago with several other Ko-
reans, was hanged on the 4th inst. at the
instance of the Police Bureau. Five or
six others are said to have met sim liar
fate on the same day, but this story re-
Guires confirmation. The cruelty of the
Korean court, in utter defiance of justice
and humanity, shows how complete is its
rala nj lay
above executions must have been perpe-
trated by An Hwan, who seems to be
bloody ruffian, taking q delight in the
horrible business of numbering his fellow
countrymen.. Indeed, An is reported to
have been much disappointed at finding
no more victims to be dispatched, for he
failed even by torture to extort incrimi-
mating evidence from other prisoners.
The Government takes care not to inform
the public of the mum Der of arrests made
and the names of the prisoners, and
though more than two weeks have elapsed
since the seizures took place the CORE
spondents cannot get accurate particulars.
Two English otticers-Captain Welby of
the Eighteenth HusSars and Lieutenant
Malcolm of the Twenty-thIrd Highland
ers-who left Leh in Ladakh last April to
travel through Thibet to Picking, reached
| the Chinese capital on the I'd or Decem-
Der, having been eight months en- roule.
At starting they had retinue OF twelve
Arganns, and their equipment was packed
on thirty-nine mules. On arrival in Peking
they had three Arganns and three mules.
the men having deserted or died and the
animals perished. They passed through
Western and Northern Thibet and met
with much kindness and hospitality at
the hands of the Monaghan tribes.
The confidently circulated news that a
site had been granted to Germany for an
independent settlement in Shanghai turns
out TO be incorrect. Germany has not
sought any such concession.
The Chinese authorities endeavored to
reserve the right of policing the new Jap
anese settlement in Soochow, but the Jap
anese insisted on the strict terms OF
the treaty, namely, that they should