Bisbee daily review., 1919-05-25
U. s. MISSIONARY RELATES SHAMEFUL TALES OF JAP TORTURE OF KOREANS

PEKING, May 24-(Correspondent of The Associated Press)-The Rever end Edward w. Thwing, oriental secre tary of the International Reform Blu reau. who was in Korea in Marcn and personally witnessed some of the disturbances resulting from the Ko- rean independence movement, de- clares that "the lower Japanese off cials and soldiers have acted like lawles savages in dealing with this peculiar situation" The movement in Korea is described by the Reverend Mir. Thwing, who formerly was an American missionary as "a peaceful revolt which should have been handled with the greatest of tact" "The remarkable manner" he said to The Associated Press, ''the Korean independence movement has manifest ed skill, courage and organization has been a great surprise to many. It has shown, more than ever before, how unreasonable, without justice, cruel and brutal the military rule of Japan is in this land. I could hardly believe these things if I had not seen them with my own eyes
 Japs Beat Little Children
 "The police and soldiers have ar rested old men and little children and cruelty beaten them. Little girls of only ten years of age, women and school girls have been shamefully treated and subjected to physical punishment and tortue for no other crime than shouting with peaceful enthusiasm for their own country and crying out for the independence which Japan had guaranteed by solemn treaties.
 These things have been witnessed not by one or two but by scores of missionaries and others in many parts of Korea during March. If the world ~ could only know about these things they would certainly heed this cry of distress from an oppressed people. But the Japanese are doing all they can to keep the world from knowing the truth. A report has just come that in one city, from which letters have been sent, they are making it very hard for the missionaries, even limiting at deportation, unless they stop telling out the truth.
 "The following are some of the things that I have actually seen with my own eyes:
 Small school boys knocked down and cruelty beaten by Japa- nese soldiers. This was not a question of arresting them, but savage unjustifiable barbarian.
 Soldiers stop and deliberately fire into a crowd composed only of girls and women, who were simply shouting 'Mansei.'
 "A small boy of ten years shot through the back.
 "An unresisting old man of 65 years, pounded, kicked and beaten by several Japanese soldiers un- ! til he could not walk.
 School Girls Assaulted
 "A crowd of about twenty school girls, who were quietly walking along the public road, not even shouting, chased by soldiers, beaten with guns, knocked down, and so shamefully treated that it made ones blood boil.
 Japanese firemen, chasing boys and girls. with long iron hooks trying to catch them with them.
 "A Korean in hospital, para lyZed, with his head crushed in with one of these hooks.
 "A man dying, shot through the back.
 "One hundred men with torn and bloody clothes, tied together with ropes, taken to jail.
 Two Koreans so injured that they could not walk, tied down on a springless cart and brought to to jail.
 "Men standing by. having no connection with the demonstra- tion, and yet knocked about, and
 attacked by soldiers, who will at- tack anyone, without regard to what they are doing.
 "An American missionary !, roughly arrested, while standing