The Cordova daily times., 1919-06-09
BRUTALITY0F LAPS AGAINST
 THE KOREANS

of the Associated Press) The Rever- end Edward w. Thiang, oriental secretary of the International Reform Bureau, who was in Korea in March and personally witnessed some of the disturbances resulting from the Kor- can independence movement, declares that "the lower Japanese officials and soldiers have acted like lawless ,sa- wages in dealing with this peculiar situation" The movement in Korea is described by the Reverend VI. Thwing, who formerly vas an Ameri- can missionary as "a peaceful revolt which should have been handled with the greatest of tact"
 "In remarkable manner" he said to the Associated Press, "the Korean independence movement has manifest ed skill, courage and organization that has been a great surprise to many. It has shown, more than ever before, how unreasonable, twithout justice, cruel and brutal the military rule of Japan is in this land. could hardly believe these things if l had not seen them with my own eyes.
 "The police and soldiers arrested old men and little childen and cruelty beaten them. Little girls of only ten years of age, women and school girls have been shamefully treated and sub jected to physical punishment and tor ture for no other crime than shouting with peaceful enthusiasm for their own country and crying out for the independence which Japan had guar anteed by solemn treaties.
 "These things have been witnessed not by one or two but by scores of missionaries and others in mary parts of Korea during March. r the world could only know these things they would certainly heed thls cry of dis tress 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 Japanese sol. diers. This was not a question of arresting them, but savage unjustii- able barbarism.
 Soldiers stop and deliberately fire into crowd composed 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, until he could not walk.
 "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.
 "A Korean in hospital, paralyzed, 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 to spring less cart and brought to jail.
 "Men standing by, having no con nection with the demonstration, and yet knocked about, and attacked by soldiers, who will attack anyone, with out regard to what they are doing.
 "An American missionary roughly arrested, while standing in his own yard, and looking out, but doing noth- ing else.
 {. "Women knocked down with guns, and kicked into the ditch.
 "These and many other things I have seen with my own eyes. Other foreigners have seen the same and worse. One can little imagine the reign of terror in all parts of this land at the very time when the Japanese peace delegates are talking of human ity and justice and equality of races. They don't know the meaning of these words. And the punishments and tor lures at the police stations and jails yH L0 cfil1 yvA OTTO xry%,,1 '