Pine Bluff daily graphic., 1919-04-17
COMPLETE REPORT OF KOREAN REVOLT
 FOR AFRICANS
Japs Hire Thugs To Attack Foreigners After
 Dark.
By The Associated Press.

Shanghai, March 20.-The Korean instruction, announced as a passive revolution against Japanese rule, will be brought to the attention of the American government in series of graphically written reports. One of these has just been read by cor respondent of The Associated Press. It was written by an American and recites the sensational events from March 1 when the revolt began, un- til March 15, when the report was started on it's way to the American minister at Peking. According to this story, the Koreans who sought publicly to demonstrate their de- mands for independence were vio- lently treated, scores being killed and hundreds injured. The report sum- marizes these features of the insur- rection as follows:
 The revolution began Saturday af ternoon March 1, in many large cities in Korea, and spread like wildfire to the country. It was we'll planned, the plotters representing all classes. A proclamation of independence signed by B men had previously been issued.
 Scores Are Killed.
 In Seul and Pyeng Yang and other cities where foreigners resided the military abstained from firing on the crowds, but in the rural district violence of the most terrible descrip- tion has been praeticed. Unresisting crowds have been fired upon, scores of persons killed and hundreds wound ed. Churches have been wrecked, private homes entered and young men and school girls. in particular, dragged off to prison where most of them have 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, l have personally witnessed or heard directly from witnesses of so many terrible scenes that I can hardly bear to write them.
 "Five seminary students, men, who had just arrived in Pyeng Yang that morning, while quietly resting in their rooms, were taken to the police station and although protesting their innocence of plotting against the gov ernment, were given 29 lashes applied at full strength.
 "Two girls were dragged by the hair from house near the misison hospital, tied to a telegraph post by their hair, horribly beaten by deput- ized firemen and then led off to jail.
 Aged Man Beaten.
 "One man 75 years old was caught by the soldiers and beaten and kick ed until he could not walk. Then he was dragged off to jail. Before he had gone 400 yards another squad of soldiers repeated the performance, and at the jail, where the punish ment was continued, the victim col lapsed and was sent home in rick sha.'
 "While the crowds were parading the streets the police and soldiers ran their weapons deliberately into un- resisting bystanders because they happened to be in the way.
 "In front of the prefect's office, one defenseless Korean was run down and killed by two firemen armed with bikes. The corpse was dragged along the ground and away by the slayers.
 "Old men, women and children have been indiscriminately abused, beaten, cut down with swords, struck by firemen armed with bikes, off cially flogged at the police station, pierced by bayonets, and never man has resisted the military. The passive revolt has been true to it's name here.
 Foreigners in Danger.
 Because we foreigners have seen all, we are not only persona non grata to the Japanese, but in real danger of our lives. It is reported that hired thugs are wandering about the city at night to waylay whom they may. The foreigners may be attack ed and injured or killed by these men. If they are the government will promptly disavow the acts but the objectionable individuals will, never theless, be out of the way. It is be- coming increasingly questionable whether we foreigners can remain here during the continuance of the trouble"