Albuquerque Morning Journal

KOREANS FILE PROTEST AT HAGUE

CLAIM NIPPON TROOPS BEHAVE LIKE SAVAGES

Delegation From Land of the Morning Calm Announces Intention of Bringing Complaint to United States.

(By Morning Journal Special Leased Wire)
The Hague June 29 While the work of the peace conferences amounted to almost nothing today considerable interest was aroused by a protest which a Korean delegation sent to all the delegates It was signed by Yi Sang Su ex premier Yi Tjoung. A Judge of the supreme court of Seoul and Yi Tjongou 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 were violating their rights and trampling on international law which deprived them of their national independence. even resorting to violence It adds that the Korean emperor gave them full powers which they would put at the disposal of the delegates to the conference asking their intervention. for admission to the conference They ask. the protest says. to defend their rights and expose the Japanese methods

A Korean delegate. speaking to the Associated Press today said The Japanese are behaving in Korea like savages. They are committing all kinds of barbarities against property and against the people and especially the women. M Nelidoff's 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 the generosity of that noble country for help

In the summer of 1905 before the treaty of Portsmouth. Korea received the first Russian communications about the present conference called at the instigation of President Roosevelt and entrusted his minister at St Petersburg. Prince Yi Tchen to be our representative here at The Hague
Kelrokh The Japanese delegation. speaking to the Associated Press in regard to this matter said "The Dutch government officials stated that Korea was not and could not be invited to the conference Therefore the Korean delegation. I assert cannot receive any recognition Evidently realizing that a bad impression might be produced by the statement yesterday regarding the American proposition on the subject of the exemption of all property. excepting contraband from capture on the high seas President Nelidoff today issued an official note of explanation in which he said that he merely questioned whether the principle of the inviolability of private property at sea would be for or against the interests when the question between political and commercial interests is taken into consideration If the latter are induced by war they will act as a brake against armed conflict while if they do not fear any incursions they may even profit by war Mr Nelidoff wishes to have it understood that he did not express any opinion in the subject