The Dillon herald. [volume] (Dillon, S.C.) 1894-????, 1919-05-08
JAPS BEAT
AMERICAN WOMEN
American Missionaries in Korea Bru-
tally Handled by Japanese Police

American Missionaries in Korea Bru-
tally Handled by Japanese Police
Washington, May 5-Two AmerI
can women were beaten with the butt
end of rifle, swung by Japanese
soldier, in the revolutionary out
break in Korea.
This news was made public here
today at the American Headquarters
of the provisional government Of the
Republic Of Korea. 1t came to the
United States in letter, which elud-
ed the strict Japanese censorship be-
cause it was entrusted to travel
|er bound for America. The letter was
written by New York woman, well
known in New York city !, literary
circles before she went to the Orient
as a missionary teacher and nurse,
her name is withheld for fear of
persecution by the japanese. The
letter was received by Mrs.. I. L.
Lomprey, of Flushing, Long Island,
who turned it over to DR.. Syngman
Rhee, secretary of state Of the Ko-
rean provisional government.
The American women assaulted by
the Japanese soldier were a Mrs.
Moore and a Miss Trissel, workers in
the hospital of DR.. Farwell at Pyeing
Yang, Korea.
"Mrs. Moore and Miss TrisseP,
says the letter, were stopped on their
way to bur hospital. They turned to
go back in obedience to the guards
command and he struck them both
in the back with the butt of his
gun. He assured the news was report
ed to the consul who is doing all in
his power in the whole affair"
The letter gives graphic picture
of the means taken by the Japanese
to put down the revolution, which
was fomented by the Koreans with
out force Of arms. The writer says
the plan ON the part. of the reyoiu-
tionists was simply to make a dem
onstration in Seoul in front Of theS
old palace and the various Legations
in the hope they would be given
Hearing at the Peace Confereh6e.
"The leaders," says the letter,
would, of course, be Imprisoned.
but they were willing to become
martyrs. The students, male and fe-
male, of the government and the
mission schools, demanded the same
privileges as the japanese have.
Ever so many Of them, boys and girls
are in prison-which they also en-
pected. What they did not count on
tgas the brutal treatment Of the po-
lice, and soldiers in some pioces.
Here they fired into the crowds and
killed and wounded ever SO many.
Two died, one has had to have an
arm amputated at the shoulder, and
one leg. School girls were tied to
telephone poles andNflogged. One OF
our missionaries saw a man standing
with his back to the road, stabbed
with bayonet. @ .,8
Christians in the jails are being
tied to crosses and beaten after be-
ing stripped of their clothing. The
girls from one school who happened
to be taken are the most meek and
bashful ones. Some of our teachers
are in prison, sentenced for some
length of time. They will not allow
warm clothing to be given the girls
who were taken in their summer
clothes. Today I've had all could do
to keep warm in all have.
Churches are being looted, bibles
burned and there Is an attempt to
crush Christianity. OF course, the
Christians went in to do their bit
along with the rest and will have to
take the consequences, but it is hard
to see them so roughly handled. Our
schools are without teachers or pu-
pills as those who haven't been taken
have departed, and as almost all the
preachers are in prison, our work is
not booming. But as DR.. Moffett an
nounced yesterday at foreign church
that if they had just three new be-
levers, 1 guess the Lord won't let
things go all to pieces.'