Omaha daily bee., 1919-07-14
CROWD CHURCHES
WITH KOREANS,
Then KILL Them
Presbyterian Headquarters in
New York Give Out Tale of
Massacre of Christians
BY Japanese.

New York, July ia report OF
alleged Japanese atrocities in Korea
was made public at the headquarters
of the Presbyterian church in Amer
lea. It is result of Investigations
by Representatives in Korea of the
church, following the imprisonment
of some of its missionaries by the
Japanese authorities. The informa-
ton from Korea was transmitted by
such means that it escaped the Jap
anese censors. The report is sew
eral thousand words in length.
Hundreds of Koreans who had
professed Christianity are said to
have been driven by Japanese gen.
darmes at the point of bayonets into
churches, there to be fired on
through open windows as they.
. huddled in terror and later to perish
in the flames as the places of wor
ship were put to the torch. Most of
these victims. it is narrated. were
men. Surviving women and chill
dren were left in restitution.
Burn 36 Homes.
II. H. Underwood, a missionary
living in Seoul, was quoted in the
Toxic Advertiser of April 20, 1919,
according to the report, regarding t,
visit he made to Pal Tan, a market
town. A fortnight before. Japanese
troops, he said he was told, burned
SO of the 30 houses in the Village of
,Chayammni, two miles from Pal
Tan, because the inhabitants were
Christian. Pal Tan, he said he was
informed, escaped both fire and
sword because there were no Chris
tians there"
Preliminary police examinations
of Koreans suspected OF completely
in the revolutionary movement, are
said in the report to include every
human refinement in brutality" men
being beaten to death and women
subjected to nearly every possible
form of shameful treatment Milder
punishment, it is said. included 90
blows rained upon the prisoners
body with bamboo rod and the
administering of many boot kicks. \
Good Women Unsafe.
Respectable women in one port of
Korea were not safe in their homes
during the day, the report COM
mittee continues, and so were forced
to spend most of their time as
refugees in the hills returning to
their homes at night The Japanese
police designate all women who
favor independence of their land as
social outcasts. One case cited re-
ferred to a Christian woman whose
arm was said to have been wrenched
from the socket by her prosecutors.
The Shimbun of March 17,l9l9, is
quoted as saying THE stirring up
of the minds of the Koreans is the
work of the American missionaries.
This uprising is their work. There
are a good many shallow minded
people among the missionaries.
They make the minds of the
Koreans bad and plant the seeds of
democracy"
Investigators Report.
In conclusion, after publishing
what are alleged to be violently
anti American articles from certain
Japanese newspapers, the report of
the Presbyterian investigators says:
ut is unnecessary to say more.
These articles speak for themselves.
The reader can judge of the attitude
of the press when the government
permits such stuff to be printed. AS
the press always is under the censor
here, when such stuff is printed, the
government becomes morally re-
spons;ble. The truth is prohibited.
Falsehoods and libels are allowed.
Sucl. a course of action only en-
dangers the relations of the govern
ments concerned"