[613]. See pp. [252] ff., above.
[614]. China, No. 2 (1904), No. 159.
[615]. See pp. [289] ff., above.
[616]. The Kokumin, Seul telegrams, July 6, 10, 17 (1903).
[617]. Ibid., July 23, 27; August 2, 8, 18.
[618]. Ibid., July 27, etc.
[619]. Ibid., August 12, 14, 23 (cf. July 17, etc.).
[620]. The Kokumin, August 10, September 2, etc.
[621]. The opening of Wiju was once granted by the Foreign Office, but the Emperor refused to sanction it.—Ibid., November 21. This is another illustration of the peculiar circumstances at Seul, that there exist two political centres, the Government and the Court. (The opening of neither Wiju nor Yong-am-po had been effected before the outbreak of the present war.)
[622]. The Kokumin, August 29.