21 JULY 1894, Page 1
The news from Corea is not very specific, but so
far there has been no collision between the Japanese and the Chinese. Meantime, Lord Kimberley, though he has not " intervened," as was reported last Friday, is using the good offices of England in the hope of accommodating the quarrel. An attempt has also been made to get the United States to cry "hands off " to both Powers, but this has of course failed. Washington will not abandon its traditional policy of refusing to meddle in the disputes either of Asiatics or Europeans. The report that Mr. Gardner, the British Consul in Corea, had been attacked and ill-treated by Japanese soldiers appears to have been exaggerated. He was mobbed by men who did not know who he was, and who could not understand what he said, but no insult was intended.
