Richmond times-dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1914-current, 1919-05-08
NIPPON SOLDIER STRIKES
TWO women WITH RIFLE
Hospital Workers Beaten on Back in
- Revolutionary Outbreak
In Korea.
Snws SLIPPED By CENSOR
Letter From New York Missionary
Teacher Gives Graphic Picture Of
g Means Taken by Japanese to Put
Down Revolution.
BIZ JAY JEROME WILLIAMS.

WASHINGTON. May Two Amcri-
gan women were beaten with the buzz
rShd of a rife, swung by 4 Japanese SOL
: dier, in the revolutionary outbreak In
Korea.
- This news was made public here TO-
.day at the American headquarters Of
nrbs OF 1d % The rS
States in letter. which eluded the
strict Japanesc censorship, because II
New York woman. we'll known IN
New York City literary circles before
, she wen, 10 the Orient as a missionary
teacher and nurse Her name is with
held for fear of persecution by tn-
Japanese The letter was received b.
who turned il over TO DR.. Syngman
Rhee. Secretary of State of the Korean
provisional government.
~ Arc Workers in Hospital.
The American women assaulted By
!, the Japanese Soldiers were Mrs
Moore and a Miss Trissel. workers N
the hospital of Or. Farwell at P,tns
Mrs; Moore ard Miss, Trissel, SAYS
TO our hospital. They turned to 60
,, rnand, and he struck them both in the
back with the butt OF his gun. Be
assured the news was reported to the
in the whole affair"
The letter gives a graphic picture OF
the means mean taken by me Japanese to
fomented by the Koreans without force
of arms The writer says the plan
Simply to, make a demons,ration in
Seoul in front of the old palace and
J the various legations in the hope they
you'd be given hearing at the peace
2 - ~ Korean. Ask Equal privileges.
The leaders" says the letter. would.
were willing. to become martyrs. The
students, male and female, OF the gov
eminent and the mission schools de-
Japanese have. Ever SO many OF them,
boys and girls: arc in prison. which
n n,y also exnectSe e Mna' hey dld NOT
the police and soldiers in some places.
Here they fred into the crowds and
/, Farwelrs hospital is full of them. Two
died, one has had 10 have an arm am
puta,ed at. the shoulder and one a leg
poles and foeged. one of our mission sio
TO the road. stabbed with bayonet.
Christinns Tied TO Crosses.
Christians in the tails are being
tied to crosses and beaten after being
stripped OF their clothing. The girls
taken. are the most meek and bashful
ones Some Of our girl teachers are
in prison. sentenced for some length
eiothins to be EVEN nth the girls Who
were taken in their summer clothes.
To-day I've had all I could do TO keep
warm in all I have.
Churches are being looted, Bibles
crush christian:ty. or course the
Christians went in TO do their bit along
with the rest and will have TO TAX c
the consequences, but II is hard TO see
Them so roughly handled. Our schools
are without teachers or pupils as
those who have not been taken have
departed. and as almost all the prca en-
ers are in prison, our work is not
boomi3-. But as DIR. Moffctt an
nounced yesterday, at FOREIGN Church.
that II they had just three new be-
things SO all 10 pieces"
/. According TO the letter the Koreans
q half in advance. although none OF
. the foreigners was aware OF this fact
a manifesto was signed By thirty
,hree leading men, many OF them be
ing Korean Christian pastors. Inc
at set time and set up a "Manzai"
for Korean freedom. Then the Jap
anese began their attacks on the
crowds with rife shot and the butt
lends OF their guns.
dependence Immediately gave them
selves up after the demonstration. as
they believed their purpose achieved
through 1t. One of the signers of the
declaration. Xii Moksa. an old man,
rode 1.-The railroad station, al
a "ricksha" where he apologized to
waiting. He explained that his train
was late. He was Immediately put