Grand Forks herald. [volume] (Grand Forks, N.D.) 1916-1955, 1919-04-16
Trains Not Running Prac-
tically All Work Is Stop
ped - Robbers Looting q
Houses And Threatening
Banks Infantry Said To
Have Joined Spartacides.

Shanghai. March 20.-(Correspond.
ence Of the Associated lPress) )-The
Korean insurrection. announced as
passive revolution against Japanese
rule, will be brought to the attention
of the American government in a Sc
ries of graphically written reports.
One Of these has Just been read by
a correspondent of the Associated
Press. 1t was written by an Ameri-
can and recites the sensational events
until March is. when the report was
started on its way to the American
minister at Peking. According to this
story, the Koreans who sought pub.
licly to demonstrate their demands
for independence. were violently
treated, scores being killed and hun
dreds injured. The summary sum
narizes these features of the insur-
rection as follows:
ernoon, March /, in many large cities
Of Korea and spread like wild fire,
to the country. 1t was well planned,
the plotters representing all classes.
A proclamation of independence
signed by 33 men had previously
been issued. Twenty-nine Of these
men gathered in Seul on February %
lamation, was read, met at a dinner
party. Later they telephoned to the
police that they were ready to go to
Jail, whereupon the authorities took
them to prison.
In Seul and Pyeng Yang and other
cities where foreigners resided, the
military abstained from firing on the
crowds. but in the rural districts vio-
lence Of the most terrible description
has been practiced. Unresisting
crowds have been fired on, scores of
persons killed and hundreds wounded.
Churches have been wrecked, private
homes entered and young men and
school girls in particular. dragged off
to prison, flogged and held for trial.
Here in Pyeng Yang, where the
treatment of people has been much
mifder than in the country, I have
personally witnessed br heard directly
from witnesses of so many terrible
scenes that can hardly bear to write
them.
'"Five theological students. although
protesting theft innocence Of plotting
against the government, were given
20 lashes.
: hair from a house. tied to a telephone
post by their hair. beaten and then
put intjail. .
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then dragged of toward jail. Before
he had gone 400 yards another squad
of soldiers repeated the performance
and the Jail. where the punishment
was continued, the victim collapsed
and was sent home in a 'Ricksha.'
e'While the crowds were paradine
the streets the police ,,and soldiers
ran their weapons deliberately into
IN front of the projects office, on.
defenceless Korean was run down ant
killed by two firemen armed will
pixies. The corpse was dragged alonf
the ground by the slayers.
"Old men. women and childre1
have been Unfortunately abused
beaten, cut down with swords, strucl
by, firemen armed with pixies, official
ly flogged, pierced by bayonets, ant
never a man has resisted the military
The passive revolt has been true t.
its name here.
Because we foreigners have seel
all, we are not only persona MOI
grata to the Japanese, but in rea
danger Of our lives. It is reported
that thugs are wandering about tn
city at night to waylay whom the!
may. The foreigners may be attacked
and injured or killed by these men
If they are the government will
promptly disavow the acts. but tn
Objectionable individuals will. never
theiess be out of the way. It is be
coming increasingly auestionabl
whether the foreigners can remail
here during the continuance OF tn
trouble"