The Montgomery advertiser. [volume] (Montgomery, Ala.) 1885-1982, 1908-03-25
KOREAN MANIFESTO
GENERAL or RIGHTEOUS ARMY
WANTS TO FIGHT.
The Attempt to Assassinate Durham
stevens, the pfplomat, IL BE-
lfeved 10 Be Result Of
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The Attempt to Asaasstnate Durham
Stevens, the pipiomat, IL BE-
lieved 10 Be Result OF
Matched Conspiracy.
San Francisco. March 2A--The Call
TODAY saws:
the attempt to assassinate Durham
w. Stevens, the political advisor OF the
Korean Council Of State. II Is now said,
was the result OF q carefully hatched
conspiracy inspired Immediately by
manifesto of the Korean righteous
Army calling upon all loyal Koreans
TO consecrate themselves to q holy war
and exterminate all Japanese.
i This manifesto reached here on the
same ship which brought Stevens. The
proclamation is signed by General EYE
Lin Yung. General Of the Korean
s'Righteous Army and Ii In part IS
follows;
"Manifesto:
''Ts all Koreans in all parts Of the
world.
Loyalty to his Nation and fealty to
his parents IL the primal law Of mans
nature. The right to live and the right
TO die for duty is also the rule Of ma
tnrs.
but. alas Grievous times have
come upon Korea, our compatriots, We
who have been educated BY cur 500.
vear-old dynasty and raised up by our
k.000-year -eld ancestry. have come UNI
der the domination OF the harbarousi
salvage. slander--the Japanese They
have swooped upon cur country and
are INDUCING their barbarous appetites
with cruel heart. It is 90 much we
could not say 1t with eur tongues nor
could we write II with cur pens.
"The japanese have abdicated our
Emperor, destroyed our villages, killed
our brethren. robbed our Land, seized
our Dement'S and are the enemy not only
- h4sak At a MA
they have violated the peace OF human
'.compatriots. ~s.muat unite ana con
secrate ourselves to our land and re-
store nur independence. We are sure
our Cod will help usve We must all do
our best to kill all japanese. their
spies. allies and barbarous soldiers.
The Japanese may. compare the ris-
ing of our righteous army to the at
tempt Of an insect 10 move big tree.
but right Is on cur side ana we are
confident that in the end we shall be
victorious. opposing their. treachery
with the justice OF our cause. We will
sacrifice our lives to their guns and
swords and as the front men fall the
men behind will take their places. De-
feated today we will again attack CD
the morrow until our VOW ito exterm-
mate the Japanese or die has been an-
complished.
"Eyie Lin Yuns,
General Korean Righteous Army"
(Date) "4s4o after Tan Kocn."
l. w, Paik, National President % the
Korean Reform League in commencing
the action of the conspiraters. is quoted
as follows:
stevens met the fate that comes to
all betrayers," he said. '.f10 came into
Korea from America, which we have
always regarded as our best friend
among the. Nations. He BETRAYED US.
He told us that the Nation we mast
hate must be accented as cur master
and. he told us that the Koreans most
despised In their own land were the
only ones to lead us as we should 80.
But we are not foolish enough to sub
aWho are the two Koreans most
hated IN their own land?" Paik was
asked
aYee wan Wong. the Prime Minis
ter. who is also Japanese spy, and
Song Pung Chun, the Minister OF AG-
riculture," he replied,
"And they will be laid low. too" he
added.
There are said to be TOO Koreans In