Rock Island Argus. (Rock Island, Ill.) 1893-1920, 1919-04-16
REPORT ON JAP
KOREA CRIMES
SENT AMERICA
Yankees Story of Sit
uation Given u. S.
Peking Envoy.

Shanghai, March 2o.-tCorre-
spondence OF the Associated
Press.) - The Korean insurrec-
ton, announced as a passive rev.
olution against Japanese rule.
will be brought TO the attention of
the American government in
series of graphically written re-
ports. One of these has just been
| read by a correspondent of the
| Associated Press 1t was written
| by an American and recites the
| sensational events from March ].
when the revolt began, unit.
March IS, when the report was
started on its way TO the Ameri-
can minister at Picking. Accord
ing to this story, the Koreans who
sought publicly to demonstrate
their demands for independence
were violently treated. scores being
killed and hundreds injured The
report summarizes these features
Of the insurrection as follows:
Revolt Well Planned.
The revolution began Saturday
afternoon, March 1. in many large
cities in Korea, and spread like
wildfire to the country. II was we'll
planned, the plotters representing
all classes. A proclamation of in
dependence, signed by SO men, had
previously been issued. Twenty
nine of these men gathered in Seoul
on Feb. %, and after the meeting,
where the proclamation was read,
met at dinner party Later they
telephoned to the police that they
we're ready to go to Jail, whereupon
the authorities took them to prison
Country People Slaughtered.
In Seoul and Ping Yang and
other cities where foreigners re-
sided the military abstained from
firing on the crowds, but in the
rural districts violence of the most /
terrible description has been prac-
uced- Unres-sting crowds have ]
been fired upon. scores of persons |
killed and hundreds wounded. /
Churches have been wrecked. pri-
vate homes entered, and young men I
and school girls in particular drag
ged off to prison, where most OF |
them have been f1ogged and few /
held for trial
Here in. Ping Yang. where the /
treatment of the people has been
much milder than in the country, ! !
have personally witnessed or heard
directly from witnesses of so many
terrible scenes that l can hardly
bear to write them.
Girls Hung Up by Hair.
Two girls were dragged by the
hair from a school building near |
the mission hospital. tied to tele-
graph pole by their hair. horribly
beaten by deputized firemen and
then led off to jail.
One man 65 years old was,
by the soldiers and beaten
and kicked until he could not walk.
Then he was dragged off to Jail.
Before he had gone 400 yards an
other squad of soldiers repeated
the performance, and at the jail,
where the punishment was contin-
ued, the victim collapsed.
Foreigners Not Safe
Because we foreigners have
seen all, We are not only personae
non grata to the japanese, but in
real danger of our lives. 1t is re
ported that hired thugs are wan
lering about .Lhe city at night to
waylay whom they may. The for
signers may be attacked and injur-
I'd or killed by these men If they
ire, the government will promptly
iisavow the acts, but the objec- {
ionable individuals will, neverthe- /
ess, be out of the way. II
1T is becoming increasingly / /
Questionable whether We foreigners t
an remain here during the contin-
lance of the trouble" n