The Richmond palladium and sun-telegram. [volume] (Richmond, Ind.) 1907-1939, 1919-07-12
KOREA SECOND
BELGIUM, SAYS
CHURCH REPORT
Statement Declares Worst Of
Atrocities Are Committed
by Japanese Police.

NEW YORK, July IA report of
alleged Japanese atrocities in Korea
was made public today at the head
quarters of the Presbyterian church
in America. 1t is a result of investi-
cations by representatives in Korea
Of the church. following the imprison-
ment of some of it's missionaries by
the Japanese authorities. The infor-
nation from Korea was transmitted
by such means that it escaped the
Japanese censors.
The report which is several thous-
and words in length. is described by
the Presbyterian church in its intro
duction to the presentment as fol-
lows:
"The American papers are already
full to overflowing with the reports of
another Belgium is on the worlds
hands, it becomes necessary that the
facts be stated by someone and that
these be held to form the basis of
constructive reformation later on
This article is written with this idea
in mind.
What is reported here can be dupH-
Gated in scores Of places In Korea and
some of the reports thus far received
are even more narrowing than the
ones we report. But as they have not
been definitely established by com.
petent witnesses, we omit them but
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which are known beyond the shadow
of a doubt to be true.
Many of these reports are repul-
sive in the extreme and our readers
blood will boil with indignation as ours
has who have witnessed these things
We leave the facts to convey their
own lesson"
Hundreds Of Koreans who had pro-
fessed Christianity are said to have
been driven by Japanese gendarmes,
at the point Of bayonets, into churches
there to be fired upon through open
windows as they huddled in terror.
and later to perish in the flames as
the places of worship were put to the
torch. Most of these victims, it Is
narrated. were men. Surviving wo-
men and children were left in destitu-
ton
Women Humiiiated
A signed statement by an American
resident of Korea dated April %, 1919,
| said that The examination Of women
who have been arrested for their ac-
tivity in the independence movement
is the most disgraceful and humiliating
| POSSIBLE. Korean and Chinese women
he added, have the same feelings of
delicacy as Europeans" He accused
| the Japanese Of taking advantage of
this situation to increase the distress
of women prisoners forced to undergo
examination by the police and says
cultured and refined Korean women
were subjected to the grossest indig-
mites. They were humiliated and ex.
hibited to the public gaze. he declares.
Respectable women in one part OF
Korea were not safe in their homes
during the day, the report continues,
and so were forced to spend most OF
their time as refugees in the hills
returning to their homes at night. The
Japanese police designate all women
who favor the independence Of their
land as social outcasts. One case
cited referred to a Christian woman
whose arm was said to have been
wrenched from the socket by her per
secutors.
| The Chosen Shimbun Of March II
1919, Is quoted as saying:
THE stirring up of the minds Of the
Koreans is the work of the American
missionaries. This uprising Is their
work. There are good many shallow
minded people among the mission
| aries. They make the minds of the
Koreans bad and plant the seeds o,
| democracy"