Honolulu star-bulletin. [volume] (Honolulu [Oahu, Hawaii]) 1912-2010, 1915-06-07
WARRANTS OUT
FOR NINETEEN
HIGH KOREANS
zee Kong Kee, Badly Battered,
Declares Directors of Asso-
citation Beat Him Up
PASS RESOLUTION TO
KILL Y. M. PAX LEADERS
Two Editors in Hiding, One
Bound for Coast, While Con-
yention of $50 Deliberates

Little Korea" In Honolulu today is
experiencing a revolution within a rev.
olution. The trouble, which began
when the president of the Korean Ma
tional Association was arrested on q
charge of embezzling tine associations
funds month ago, is now at high
pitch, with the old faction fighting the
new faction of the board of directors,
now in session.
XIII all the leaders of Y NJ. Pak's
party"
I This Is the vehement resolution city
detectives say, was passed By 350 ex-
lcifbd Koreans az a heated tliieeting In
the Korean Nati0nal association build
ing Saturday night Y. NJ. PAX, editor
OF the Korean National Herald, and
head OF the Korean military school at
Kahaiuu. fled before the storm by tax.
ing leave of Honolulu on the Sierra
Saturday.
The factional fight among the Ko-
reans has reached fever heat. The
old party of which Kim Chong Hak,
late president Of the association who
was arrested on charge Of embez-
zling $1365 OF the funds, is opposed
by new party under DR.. Syngman
Rhee OF the Korean mission and COM
pound
Last night ,Yee Hong, Korean, APP
peared at the police station much bat
tered and bruised. Upon his testimony
warrants were sworn out for 19 mem
hers of the association, charging them
with assault The police say Yee look
ed as though a threshing machine had
run over him. The arrests will prob
ably be made this afternoon when the
association is in session.
Bitter feeling over the Kim affair,
still pending for the findings Of the
grand jury, broke bounds Saturday
night, and the old party members were
forced out of the conference. The
two remaining editors of the Korean
National Herald are now fugitiyes.
The first editor, Han Chat Myung
Is said to be hiding in Waikiki. The
story is that Han was seized, by DR..
Rhee,s gang after Sunday school yes
terday at DR.. Rhee's church, and hur-
ried to a Punahou car. The gang
boarded the car at Beretania and
.Punchbowl streets, later transferring
to waikiki Han eluded his captors by
jumping from the car when 1t was
going at full speed past the Moana
hotel Nothing was heard from him
until midnight, when he called his
wife by telephone and told her he was
hiding.
Yee Choo Yung, the other editor,
was kept in hiding until late yester-
day afternoon, when he escaped the
gang lying in wait for him. zee is
now at the Korean military school at
Kahaluu.
II is claimed that Kim Chong Hak,
the arrested president, will be clear.
ed, as the last investigation reduced
the amount of money said to be miss.
ing from 1885 to $500 and that amount
can be accounted for by funds used
for helping of needy Koreans. The
new faction headed by DR.. Rhee has
for its purpose the central control of
the Korean military school, the
church, the schools and the newspaper.
Twenty-Five delegates are here from
the other islands to remodel the con-
stitution of the association along new
lines, so there can be no more embez-
King by officers. Each delegate is
said to have brought two husky body
guards with him to aid in enforcing
his views. T..
zee Hong kee attempted to defend
the old faction and was given severe
drubbing. The two associate editors
of the Korean National Herald we're
scared out of town. The editor in
chief. Y. NJ. PAX, left for San Fran
cisco on the Sierra Saturday. without
bidding anyone goodbye, evidently in
fear of the new faction, say the police
Chief of Detectives McDuffy was
puzzled early this afternoon as to the
best way to make the arrests and de-
cided to walk into the meeting at the
association hall in Miller street and