Great Falls daily tribune. [volume] (Great Falls, Mont.) 1895-1921, 1919-04-15
Arrest Four in Korea
and Remove Wounded
From American Hos
pital In Seoul.
Agitation for Independ-
ence Grows and Japan
Sends Six More Regi-
ments to Crush Riots.

San Francisco, April I4.-(By the
Associated Press. -Four American
missionaries in Seoul. capital of 10
rea, have been arrested by the lap
a1ese in connection with the Korean
revolution, according to information
received here today by Rev. David
Lee, genera! manager of the Korean
national association branch here.
Korean independence agitation
continues in the provinces. The Jap
anese are repressing it severely with
the result, that there has been many
additional casualties. Seoul is quiet.
The Japanese war office announc-
es, dispatch from Toxic says, that
it is reinforcing its garrison in
Korea by six regiments of infantry
and 400 gendarmes, because the
riots there have assumed danger
Gus character and extended to all of
Korea.
Japan Pleads BoIsheysm.
The riots. the war office announce
ment says, have spread greatly in the
last few days and the rioters coerce and
threaten persons engaged in legitimate
occupations. The announcement con
Times:
"If positive action ny the imperial
troops is withheld too long. there is
danger that Koreans connected with the
Russian bolsheviki will take advantage of
the disturbances and expose the people
to further unrest.
4 The missionaries arrested were Doc
tors John Thomas. G. II. Avison. ]. 7.
Ludlow and j. w. Hirst, according to the
information made public today. The in
formation was received by Mrs. Fawns of
%L t.,
Thomas and forwarded here BY Robert
Chung. Korean student at Ashbury col
lege. Wilmore, Rev. Lee said.
Mr.. Lee, in making public this infor-
nation, gave the Associated Press a
signed statement charging the "sup-
preston of unfayorable news by Japan
and "distortion of facts in official state
ments"
Oppose Reds, Says Envoy.
'AThe arrest Of four more Americans
at Seoul" Mr. Lee said in his statement,
makes it timely to show the methods
used in the suppression of unfayorable
news by Japan and the distortion Of
facts in official statements. Last week
the arrest Of the Rev. f. M. Mowry, an
other American missionary, was report
ed Instead of one arrest Of American
missionaries. it now is known that there
nationals Japan has caused, the Japan
ese censorship makes it impossible at
present to state.
Now, the voice Of the movement is
reaching over the world, it is charged by
Japanese officials that the movement
will eventually ally itself with bolshe-
vism. A Toxic official statement de-
clared Korean propagandists were
spreading bolshevism in Korea. To this,
it is enough to answer that the declared
hopes of the independent leaders are for
a republic based on models Of Christian
governments as indicated in the decIara-
ton Of independence. The 33 religious
leaders who signed the document stand
for democratic principles but against boil
shevism. They favor the American form
of government. Their ideals are well
known.
Further, it is of record that 5000
Koreans fought on the allied side in Rus
sia before the bolsheyiki Koreans of
fcred to fight against the bosheyiki but
not under japanese leadership.
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