Note 621 — Chapter XVIII · THE RUSSO-JAPANESE NEGOTIATIONS, I
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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.)