The Nenana daily news. (Nenana, Alaska) 1918-1921, 1919-06-30
MISSIONARY iIElIslHtf
/ OF JAP BRUTALITY
= ~ IN KOREAN REVOLT

PEKING.-The Reverend Edward
W. Thwing, oriental secretary of
the International Reform bureau,
who was in Korea in March and
personally witnessed some of the
disturbances resulting from the
Korean Independence movement, de-
clares that 1.-The lower japanese
officials and soldiers have acted
like lawless savages in dealing with
this peculiar situation" The move
ment in Korea is described by the
Reverend Mr.. Thwing, who for
merly was an American missionary,
as "a peaceful revolt which should
have been handled with the greatest
of tact
In a remarkable manner" he
said to The Associated Press, ''the
Korean independence movement has
manifested skill, courage and organ
ization that has been a great sur
prise to many. 1t has shown, more
than ever before, how unreasonable,
without justice, cruel and brutal
military rule of Japan is in this
land. l could hardly believe these
things if l had not seen them with
my own eyes.
THE police. and soldiers have ar
rested old men and little children
and cruelty beaten them. Little
girls of only ten years of age,
woman and school girls have been
shamefully treated and subjected to
physical punishment and torture for
no other crime than shouting with
peaceful enthusiasm for their own
country and crying out for the in
dependence which Japan had guar
anteed by solemn treaties.
These things have been wit
messed not by one or two, but bv
scores Of missionaries and others
in many parts of Korea during
March. If the world could only
know these things they would GER
tainly heed this cry of distress
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 the :
stop telling the truth.
The following are some of the
things that l have actually seen
with my own eyes:
Small school boys knocked down
and cruelty beaten by japanese
soldiers. This was not a question
of arresting them, but savage un-
justifiable barbarism. 49,.
Soldiers stop and deliberately
fire into a crowd composed only of
girls and women, who were simply
shouting 'Mansei-'
"A small boy of ten years shot
through the back.
IAN unresisting old man of 65
years, pounded, kicked and beaten
BY several japanese soldiers, until
ne could not walk. 49,.
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
snamefully treated that it made
ones blood boil.
Japanese firemen, chasing boys
and girls. with long iron hooks. try
ing to catch them with them.
"A Korean in a hospital, para
yzed, with his head crushed in with
one of these hooks.
"A man dying, shot through the
back.
Zone hundred men with torn and
bloody clothes, tied together with
ropes, taken to jail.
1.-TWO Koreans so injured that
hey could not walk, tied down on a
'pringless cart and brought to Jail.
"Men standing by, having no cor
lection with the demonstration, and
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