Rensselaer Republican, Volume 28, Number 8, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 24 October 1895 — LANDING OF MARINES. [ARTICLE]

LANDING OF MARINES.

Great Britain Also Reported to Have Interfered in Korea. Information of the formidable uprising in Korea, resulting in the disappearence and probable death of the Queen, and the landing of military forces by the United States and European powers, has been received by Minister Kurino of Japan from the foreign office at Tokyo. It is quite sensational, indicating the landing of marines by Russian, the United States and. probably Great Britain. The latest dispatch to Minister Kurino states that a force of Russian marines, forty in number, has been landed. Thus far they have confined themselves to guarding the Russian legation at Seoul. United S(a|£s marines were lauded from the Yorktown to the number of sixteen. It is believed also that British marines have been landed. Besides these the Japanese have a considerable force of soldiers at Seoul who have been preserving order. The dispatches come from Tokyo and communicate the substaye of dispatches received from Gen. Muira, the Japanese envoy at Seuol. It appears from these dispatches that the trouble had its inception through the Queen’s dislike of the newly organized soldiers of Korea. The old soldiers had the primitive equipment of the far East, but with the progress of Japanese influence in Ivorea two battalions of Korean troops were organized on modern methods. Each battalion numbered (XX) men, armed with modern weapons. They werewell drilled and officered. When the Queen showed her disfavor toward these new troops they appealed to the Tai Won Kun, a powerful chief, who has long been at enmity with the Queen. He accepted the leadership of the new troops, and at the head of one battalion entered the Queen’s palace. The native soldiers fled from the palace. The Tokyo dispatches do not state specifically what became of the Queen, further than that she has disappeared and cannot be located.