[17] Foreign Relations of the United States, 1871, p. 112.
[18] Quoted from the paper referred to above.
[19] For this account, as here given verbatim, I am indebted to the Hon. D. W. Stevens, who was at the time of my visit, “Adviser to the Korean Council of State and Counsellor of the Resident-General.”
[20] The list of these reforms is given in the volume of the U. S. Foreign Relations, containing the report sent to the United States by Minister Sill, September 24, 1894.
[21] International Law and Diplomacy of the Russo-Chinese War, p. 43 f.
[22] Hershey, International Law and Diplomacy of the Russo-Chinese War, p. 44 f.
[23] Ibid., p. 45 f. See also the account of Dr. K. Asakawa, The Russo-Japanese Conflict, p. 263 ff.
[24] So Mr. Whigham, in his admirable book on Manchuria and Korea. (London, Isbiter & Company), p. 123.
[25] The Passing of Korea, p. 167.
[26] See on this and allied points, the lecture delivered by Mr. Rockhill, at the United States Naval War College, Newport, August 5, 1904.