Bisbee daily review., 1919-07-16
REPORT JAPS'
 ATROCITIES VS. KOREA RUTHLESS

otdCSlucuI tue SlIudIlOn
 Korea was given out today by the mis-
 sion on the relations with the Orient
 of the Federal Council of the Churches
 of Christ, in America, of which Com
 missioner William Havener is chair
 man and Sidney l.. Gulick is secretary.
 The reports of atrocities against
 the Korean population and especially
 against the native Christians that
 have been coming from Korea for sev-
 eral months are confirmed in abun-
 dant detail by special report about
 to be issued by the mission on rela-
 tions with the Orient of the Federal
 Council of the Churches of Christ in America.
 "The commission wishes to make
 clear that while it has no Jurisdiction
 to speak on the political issues at stake at Korea, yet, as representing
 the Christian sentiment if a majority
 of the American churches it cannot remain silent when a defenseless peo-
 pie are made the victims of massacre.
 After nearly three months study
 Of the Korean situation, this com mission is issuing a statement based
 on the examinationof about 1000
 pages of manuscript reports of com mittees, letters and the personal &C.,
 counts of responsible eye witnesses to
 the events attending the Korean dem-
 onstrations in favor of national inde- pendence and their ruthless suppress sion by the Japanese military govern | ment
 This report substantiates the charge that the Japanese colonial sys- tenn which has been forced upon the Koreans is thoroughly russian in it's military severity and its treatment of the native population. Everywhere in Koreans is thoroughly Prussian in it's emblem of authority and is even worn by male school teachers in the class room.
 The recent movement for indepeu- dence was started by educated Kor- cans anxious to save the people of their country from national extinction and for the elemental rights of justice. such as the use of their own language. freedom of the press, of speech and as- smbly which have been denied them by Japan.
 They hoped by peaceful demon strations of passive resistance to the conquerers to attract the attention of the peace conference to their cause.
 The invariable procedure of the so- called revOlutionists was to assemble. usually carrying the national colors. and shouting 'Mansei' Equivalent to the Japanese 'banzar or to our 'hur- rahD. In no case was anything more violent attempted, nor were arms borne by the revolutionists. In scores of cases these defenseless demonstra- tors were fired upon by Japanese troops and killed or wounded by hun dreds. In other instances, native high school students of both sexes who had joined the processions in behalf of Korean liberty, were imprisoned and tortured. The stripping and beating of girl demonstrators and the brutal treatment of Korean women by Japan csc soldiers were frequent while bands of armed Japanese thugs were turned loose upon the Korean crowds.
 From March to April II, 36I Ko- reans were known to have been killed and S60 wounoed. The indignities to a few foreign missionaries and espe- cially the arrest and imprisonment of the Rev. Eli M. Mowry, are already known in America. The latest reports are to the effect that the arrest and torture of suspected persons by the po- lice were continuing and that a reign of terror prevailed.
 That the forbearing policy of the federal councils commission has met with an appreciative response from the following eablegram just re- ceived from the Hon. Tashi Hara, premier of the imperial cabinet:
 I desire to assure you that the re- port of abuses committed by agents of the Japanese government in Korea has been engaging my most serious at tentlon. am fully prepared to look at actual facts. As I have declared on various occasions, the regime of administration inaugurated in Korea at the time of annexation, nearly ten years ago, calls for sub stantial modification to meet the alter ed conditions of things. A compre- hensive plan of reorganization with this object in view has already been on the tapis.
 In view, however, of the recent in the situation, the con templated reform can now be, in my estimation, safely introduced and will be carried into effect as soon as the legal requirements of procedure to make them definite shall have been completed
 The commission also makes public part of cablegram from Viscount Uchida, minister of foreign affairs, in Tokio, wherein he confirms the assur- ances of Premier Hara that the latter IS striving to remedy the Korean trou. Die. The message thanks the Ameri- cans for their cordial and friendly spirit" and asks for a continuance of their sane and moderate attitude"
 The inquiry was undertaken. the commission says, at the request of representatives of the Presbyterian and Methodist churches and the Amer lean Bible society. The Japanese gov ernment was kept informed of the dis. closures.
 The documents given out, it Is said. were compiled with the aid of thirty