Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1907-08-02
COMMISSIONERS ARRIVE.
Corean Peace Delegates Will Ask
America to Intervene.

New York, Aug. Hopping to induce
the American government to intervene
and prevent Japan from obtaining fur
Their domination in Corea, Prince lily
ong-Oui Vi and vi Sang Sulo, two Of
Coreas delegates to The Hague arriv-
ed here today on the steamer Majes-
tic. 1t is their plan to appeal to the
American nation to save the hermit
kingdom from effacement from the ma
tions Of the world by the Japanese. De-
MED admission to the peace tribunal.
where they desired to protest against
the Japanese seizure of power in Corea,
Prince vi said today that Corea's last
hope of enduring as a nation rested in
the justice and fairness of the Aineri-
can people, to whom Corea was now
looking for deliverance from the Japan
ese. Prince vi and his associate. III
Sang Sui a former vice prime minis
ter of COrea, hope to see President
Roosevelt at Oyster Bay and lay be-
fore him the status of the Corean sit
uation. An edict of punishment has
been passed by aJpan against Prince
Vi, who is only % years of age, and
he saws death awaits him on his re-
turn to Corea after his plea here to
save Corea in her plight, has been
made.
one Of the little band of three delegates
that left Corea for the peace conference
died suddenly at The Hague. He was VI
Tioni Prince vi said yesterday that VI
Tioni died of n broken heart on July 16
when he learned that Corea would not be
pern,itted to appear before the councilo ST
nations He denied that he committed
suicide.
II and my companions said Prince VI.
who speaks English. represented the CO.
rean government by the authority of the
Emperor, but japan used all her cunning
to make it appear that we appeared at
The Hague without authority. Corea will
never agree to Japanese domination. and
unless something is done there will be Il
serious uprising.
1--WE knew before we left Corea that
Japan would force the Emperor to abdi-
cate. The United States does not realize
what Japan's policy in the Far East ia
and what it portends for the American
people. The Japanese adopted n policy
that in the end will give her complete
control over commerce and industry in
the Far East. Japan is bitter against the
If the United Sites does not watch Japan
closely she will force the Americans and
and English out Of the Far East.
Il shall try to see President Roosevelt.
1t is my purpose to visit several of thu
large cities of the country to make my
plea for my people, then I shall return to
Corea, where death awaits me. The Jap
anese have passed an edict Of punish
ment against me and am officially u
dead man. The Japanese may kill me.
but they cannot kill the cause for which
am fighting. The only way Japan can
dominate in Corea is to kill my people"
Prince vi is dapper young man and
dresses in European fashion. The prince
spent nearly five years in Washington
when his father. Prince Telslne Ponun VI.
was Corean minister to this country. Mr..
vi Sang Sui was vice prime minister in
Corea when the former treaty between
Japan and Corea was arranged. Mr.. Sui
Is here to explain the causes and con-
ventions of that treaty, which he said
was forced by the Japanese on Corea.
| Prince Tyjong Oui VI was deeply af-
fected when shown a dispatch from
Washington this afternoon that 40 Corean
soldiers had been killed or wounded while
resisting an attempt to disarm the CO.
rean army by the Japanese.
THE death Of those soldiers" declared
Prince vi feelingly. marks the baptism
in blood of Corea's final efforts to throw
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