New Britain herald., 1919-07-12
Report of-Presbyterian Investigators in Ko- req Tells of Almost Unbelievable AtrOc- P ities.
CHRISTIANS ARE
 CRUELLY TORTURED Cultured and Refined Girls Subjected to Grossest h. dignities-Woman's Arm Wrenched From Socket.

Wrenched From Socket.
 New York, July 12.-A report of atleged Japanese atrocities in Korea was made public today at the head
 quarters of the Presbyterian church In America. It is a result of investi- Satlons by representatives in Korea of the Presbyterian church in America ! Following the imprisonment of some of M us missionaries by the Japanese au- Ffhorities. The information from r stSorca was transmitted by such means 6a1at it escaped tho Japanese cen-
 Murdered in Churches
 Hundreds of Koreans who had pro- 1essed Christianity are said to have been driven by Japanese sondarmes at the point Of bayonets into churches flhcfe to be fired upon as they hud- dled in terror, and later 10 perish in names as the places Of worship were put to the torch Most of these vic- tims, it is narrated, were men. Sur Efying- women and chiarcn were left in destitution.
 tt Many Houses Burned.
 H. H. Underwood, a missionary iiv- ing in Seoul, was quoted in the Tokio Advertiser of April 29. 1919 accord ing to the report, regarding a visit he made to Pal Tan, a market town near t4lWon. fortnight before Japanese , troops, he said he was told, burned 36 of the 40 houses in the village of Chayamnni, two miles from Pal Tan because the inhabitants were Chris Soi told also that the victims had not fig ured in any rioting or shouted for la@rean independence. Pal Tan, he said he was informed, escaped both fire and sword, "because there were no Christians there
 Men Beaten to Death.
 Preliminary police examinations of Koreans suspected of complicity in the revolutionary movement are said in the reports of the investigators to include "every human refinement in brutality" men being beaten to death anl women subjected to nearly every possible form of shameful treatment r Milder punishment, it is said, includ- ed 90 blows rained upon the prison E CTS body with a bamboo reed and many body kicks, at the end of which the victim, if he survived, was sent ~ almost .lifeless to a hospital
 Tortured for Six Hours
 One such victim, a slender, timid,
 Christian youth, 19 years old, en- pioyed by a shoemaker, was arrested Fsvith a wealthy Korean, both charged With circulating the Independent l News, revolutionary publication I The boy, it is said, was tortured and 4 hovered between life and death in a hospital for more than a month be- fore he was sent to prison. For six
 hours he had been "grilled" by Ja- panese gendarmes, after which the inquisitors applied "rings above the < youths elbows until the upper body l& was greatly distorted (the usual pre- paration for beatirg) Whereupon blows and kicks were administered un- til the victim fell, fainting to the ! floGr." He was revived at intervals ]. by cold water dashed upon his naked 2 body, and the punishment repeated. Branded With Hot Iron.
 The narrator of this alleged episode, who says he afterwards visited the victim at the hospital, declares he saw "one of four wounds, each five inches long, on the youths thigh, which had r bsn scared with a red hot iron" A eWOun0 Tn the aDdOmen, IL IS reported,
 appeared to have been made by a bayonet. The victims hands were
 swollen almost twice their natural size. The prisoner told his benefactor that he pleaded with his tormentors to kill him.
 Women Shamefully Humiliated. A signed statement by an American resident in Korea, dated April 22, 1919, said that the examination of women who have been arrested for their activty in the independence movement is the most disgraceful and humiliating possible. Korean and Chinese women, he added, "have the sanX feelings of delicacy as Euro } peans, A mOdesty not shared by Ja- panesa of either sex" He accuses the ..Fapanese of ta king advantage of this situation to increase the distress of ] women prisoners forced to undergo ex- animation by the police and says cul- & tured and refined Korean women were subjected to the grossest indignities
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