The Hawaiian star. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu]) 1893-1912, 1907-07-19


by Japanese. The deputation applied
to President Nelidoc for an audience
which was refused on the ground that
he had no authority to interfere in
such questions.
While the work of me peace con-
ference amounted to almost nothing
today, considerable interest was arous-
ed by a protest which the Korean de-
legation sent to all the delegates. 1t
was signed by vi Sang Sule, expremier;
vi Tyoune, ex-judge of the supreme
court of Seoul, and vi 1iginou, ex-
secretary of the Korean legation at
St. Petersburg.
The protest says that the Koreans
regret that they were not invited to
the conference because the Japanese
are violating their rights and tramp
ling on international law, which de-
prived them of their national indie
pendence, even resorting to violence.
1t auds that the Korean emperor gave
them full powers which they would
put at the disposal of the delegates to
the conference, asking their interview
ton for admission to the conference.
They wished the protest says, to de-
fend their rights and expose the Jap
anese methods.
A Korean delegate, speaking to the
Associated Press today said:
The Japanese are behaving in Ko-
rea like savages. They are commit
ting all kinds of barbarisms against
the people, and especially the women.
M. Nelidoffs refusal to receive us
was astonishing and painful, as our
relations with Russia, as well as with
America, are so good that we thought
they could not refuse to assist us. We
intend to go to America to appeal to
tine generosity of that noble country
for help
In the summer of 1905, before the
treaty of Portsmouth, Korea received
the first communications about the
present conference, called at the in
stigation of President Roosevelt, ant
entrusted her minister at st. Peters
burg, Prince vi Tchsene Pomu, tC
represent her at The Hague.
| Keirohu Tsuzuki, head of the Japa
nese delegation, speaking to the AS
ISOLATED Press in regard to this mat
ter said:
| "The Dutch government ,Offidiall!
stated that Korea was not and SHOULD
not be invited to the conference, Their
fore, the Korean delegation cannot re
ceive any recognition"
SEOUL (Korea), July l (via Toki,
! July 3)-At a demonstration in cele
bration of the return of Prince PAX
Eon-Ho, a reformer and the mos
forcible of living Korean statesmen
who after twelve years exile, was
fortnight ago welcomed by the En-
| peror as a possible Korean savior
| Chung Chain Ong, an educator, kille
himself in the presence of 800 people i
order to emphasize the subsection G
| Korea to Japan.
( Though administrative condition
! have steadily improved the past 81
| months, the suicide of Chung Chat
/ Ong in public, also the recent assassin
/ alton of a member of the Cabinet TO
his connection in the signing of tn
| suzerainty protocol, and other evidenc
shows that Korean hostility to Japa
T. is wholly unchanged. Marquis Ito
success in Korea is due solely to jap
| anese energy No Korean has yet VIC
UNFAIRLY participated in the Japanes
administration and no Korean states
- man has yet consented to co-operat
in Japan's programme.
SEOUL, July Enquiry shows tina
s general disgust is the main emeC
8 among Japanese here as a result of tn
d conspiracy in sending a Korean deputa
8. ton to The Hague, the telegraphic dis
closures of which interrupted the Kc
rean emperor's profuse assurances
Marquis Ito of his confidence in hiI
8 and his reform plans and especially hi
supposed ardent desire for a SINGER
organization of the cabinet. Marqui
Ito is much disappointed and must no,
proceed in face of the emperor's in
trigues, which has falsely elated larg
section of the upper classes who al
now anticipating a miracle in Korea.
lie Measures intended to rid the palaC
% of foreign and native mischief-makei
l. and Adventures were introduced by tn
Il Japanese in the cabinet last Monda.
'e but Marquis Ito despairs of saving tn
5 emperor himself and the ADMINISTERS
ton is disposed to confine it's appel
to the people, Although Itos admins
trative machinery is incapable of az
q ministering justice to the Korean pei
e pie, Japan has executively and in ii
p matter of creating a base of operation
IS and establishing a highway to Maj
II churia, been strikingly successful
g Korea.
Marquis Ito declared that it woul