Norwich bulletin., 1919-06-06

| leaders in Korea. The facts are ad-- mitted by the Japanese authorities at Seoul, including the Governor General Hasegawa. The authorities say that they, deplore the outrage, that those guilty of it have been. punished and that orders have been given to prevent l a recurrence.
 Investigators also have found that tSoochung another village. near Cheam- l nj, was burned by the Japanese and Ethat several Koreans there were wounded in an attack by Japanese sol diers who shot them or used thelr swords and bayonets on them as they l fed from their burning homes alter the troops had set fire to the build 1 ings.
 Reports have been received of the | burning of Christian churches in three other villages and Koreans told The | Associated Press correspondent at | Seoul that they could show him nine ] villages which had been burned by the | Japanese.
 Details of the massacre at Cheam- nj I were obtained by The Associated Press correspondent who visited that place
 in company with Raymond $. Curtice, 1 the American Vice-Consul at Seoul and 1 Mir. Underwood an American mission
 ary. Subsequently the correspondent
 again visited the place with MT. Royds, !! the British Consul and several mis- sionaries including the Rev. Heron Smith, who is in charge of the work of
 the Methodist church in Korea. Des-
 cribing his visit to Cheam-n nj, the
 Seoul correspondent writes that when they asked residents of nearby villages
 why that hamlet had been burned they were told that it was because there
 was a Christian church and many nat i've ftbY.i in Inc village
 When we got to the place which had been a village of about 40 houses we found only four or five standing
 all the rest were smoking ruins, he
 continued. We found body fright
 fully burned and twisted lying in a I compound and another either Of a
 young man or woman just outside the
 church compound. Several groups ot
 people were huddled under little straw
 shelters on the hillside with few of
 their pitiful belongings about them
 They were mostly women, some old
 others young mothers with babies but
 all sunk in the dull apathy of abject
 misery and despair. MT. Underwood an American missionary who talked tc
 them in their own language brought
 the story of what had happened.
 "They day before we arrived soldiers
 came to the village and 6rdered all the l ma le bDT1SlIdHS tCgdlDeE dl lllG CIill III When about 30 were in the church the soldiers opened fire on them with rifles and then entered the church and fin :, ished them off with swords and bay onets. After this they set fire to the i church and to houses which otherwise would not have been burned" One Korean told the corfesponden he was alive because he was not ,;
 Christian and was not in the church ,J Later when the correspondent made a hsecond trip to Cheam-ni, with MT ! Royds, the British consul and a part. of seven including several mission :, aries. he said, we photographed free
 ly without interference but when w s started to talk to the natives police = man would saunter up and the Korea1
 would freeze up They were in fea
 of what might happen later if the,
 were seen talking to US"
 The party however, divided up an
 obtained many interviews concernin.
 the story as the correspondent learne l it OF his first visit. They were toll a l that two of those killed in or near tn , church were women who went to tha . building to learn what was happenin
 to the husbands.
 The party headed by the British con > sul then visited Soochun and found tn
 village had been burned. The Korea V told the visitors that they were awall | cned in the night by finding thei
 houses on fire When they ran GU } they were struck. with swords. an l bayonets- CT shot. None were kille , l but several were wounded. and we say = one man whose arm had been lai o open with 8 sword. A church an = thirty houses had been burned her
 but no attempt had been made t
 1 clean up the others.
 Q The Rev. Stacy L. R. Roberts an . American Presbyterian missionary sta I toned at Pyeng Yang has issued 7, statement asserting that more tha 100 Koreans were shot or beaten {
 death in Tyung jul and church ther
 was burned by Japanese.
 o Tn another village eight miles ava ' away another Christian church and q
 academy for boys were burned , . Japanese soldiers after the contest | ! such as benches stoves and meat wer , carried away and put to use in tl l. government school at Tyung-j ju.