The news scimitar. (Memphis, Tenn.) 1907-1926, 1919-04-16
GRAVE BRUTALITY
Of JAPS IN KOREA
GRAPHICALLY TOLD
Report To Be Made to
u. S. Government Describes
Horrible Scenes During
First DAYS of Revolt.

SHANGHAI, April 16. Correspond
Korean instruction, announced as a
passive revolution against Japanese
rule, will be brought to the attention
Of the American government in a series
Of graphically written reports. One
Of these has just been read by a cor
respondent of the Associated Press. 1t
was written bv an American and re-
cites the sensational events from March
/, when the revolt began. until March
IS, when the report was started on its
way to the American minister at
licking.
According to this story, the Koreans
who sought publicly to demonstrate
their demands for independence were
violently treated, scores being killed
and hundreds injured. The report sum-
mariSes these features:
'"rhe revolution began Saturday aft
ernoon, March /, in many large cities
In Korea, and spread like wildfire to
The country. 1t was well planned, the
p!otters representing all classes. A
proclamation of independence, signed
by 80 men, had previously been issued,
Twenty-nine of these men gathered in
Seul on Feb. % and after the meeting,
where the proclamation was read, met
at a, dinner party: Later they tele-
phoned to the police that they were
ready to go to Jail, whereupon the au-
thorities took them to prison.
In Seul and Pyeng Yang and other
cities, where foreigners resided, the
military abstained from firing on the
crowds, but IN the rural districts vIo-
has been practiced. Unresisting crowds
have been fired upon, scores of per
sons killed and hundreds wounded,
Churches nave been wrecked, private
homes entered and young men and
school girls, in particular, dragged off
been flogged and a few held for trial.
Here in Pyeng Yang, where the
treatment of the people has been much
milder than In the country, ! have
personally witnessed or heard directly
from witnesses of SO many terrible
scenes that l car hardly bear to write
them.
Girls Beaten.
Five theological seminary students
men who had just arrived in Pyena
Yang that morning, while quietly rest
ing In their rooms, were taken to the
police station AMI although protesting
their innocence of plotting against the
government, were given 30 lashes APP
piled at full strength.
1.-TWO girls were dragged by the hail
from a house near the mission hospital
tied to a telegraph post by their hair
horribly beaten by deputiEed f!remer
and then led off to Jail.
lone man 65 years old was caugh'
by the soldiers and beaten and kickeC
until he could not walk. Then he was
dragged off to Jail. Before he had gone
400 yards another squad Of soldiers re-
peated the performance and at the jail
where the punishment was continued
the victim collapsed and vas sent homt
In a 'ricksha.'
''While the crowds were parading thu
streets the police and soldiers ran theil
weapons deliberately into unresisttnG
b~ystanders because. they happened t.
be in the way.
"in front Of the projects office one
defenseless Korean was run down anC
killed by two firemen armed with pixies
The corpse was dragged along thu
ground and away by the slayers.
."Old men, women and children have
been indiscriminately abused, beaten
cut down with swords, struck by fire
men armed with pixies, officially flogge'
at the police station. pierced by bay
onets, and never a man has resisted tn
military, The passive revolt has bee
true to its name here
Because we foreigners have seen al
we are not only persona non grata t
the Japanese, but In real DANGER G
our lives. 1t is reported that hire
thugs are wandering about the cit
at night to waylay whom they may
The foreigners may be attacked an
Injured or killed by these men. If the
are, tho government will promptly dis
avow the acts, but the objectionabl
individuals will, nevertheless, be out 9
the a 1t is becoming ~increasingl
questionable whether foreigners car re
main here during the continuance c
the trouble"