Harrisburg telegraph. [volume] (Harrisburg, Pa.) 1879-1948, 1919-07-12
CHRISTIANS ARE
TOTURED In KOREA
CONTINUED Aom First Page.l


added, have the same feelings of
delicacy as Europeans a modesty
not shared by Japanese of either
seX.' He accuses the japanese of
taking advantage of this situation to
increase the distress of women pris-
oners forced to undergo examination
by the police and says cultured and
refined Korean women were sub
jected to the grossest indignities.
They were humiliated and exhibited
to the public gaze, he declares.
Respectable women in one part of
Korea were not safe in their homes
during the day, the report contin-
ues, and so were forced to spend
most of their time as refugees in
the hills, returning to their HON les
at night. The Japanese police des-
ignated all women who favored the
independence of their land as social
outcasts and denounced them in re-
voting terms. When arrested, some
of them, it is charged, were tor
tured. One such case, which was
cited, referred to a Christian wom-
an whose arm is said to have been
wrenched from the socket by her
prosecutors.
Jap Governor Admitted Offenses
Towns where Japanese soldiers
are declared to have committed eX-
ceSSes and burned churches and
dwellings are Suchone and Tyungju,
in north Pyengan province, and
thirteen other missionary centers.
Protests against such acts were
lodged with the Japanese governor
general by an American vice consul
and a British acting consul, one of
whom had visited a ruined village.
The governor general admitted the
offense. it is stated.
Hundreds Destitute
Testimony regarding one of these
fires was quoted from a Toxic news
paper 1t purported to describe
scenes of ruin and devastation.
Hundreds of families were said to
be destitute. The investigators, ac-
cording to the report, were told by
an aged Korean survivor how all
the Christians of the village had been
forced to enter the church, the wom-
en- being excluded, whereupon the
soldiers started u massacre, sparing
only women and children. After the
fifteen villages had been reduced to
ashes, the report goes on, a number
of Korean and Japanese newspa-
pers attributed the incendiarism to
some of the missionaries and their
converts. Others accused the Shun-
tokyo a semipolitical, semireligious
organization.
Violently AntiAmcrican
The Chosen Shimbun of March
lS, 1919, is quoted as saying:
The stirring up of the minds OF
the Koreans is the work of Amer
lean 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"
In conclusion, after publishing
what are alleged to be violently
antiAmerican articles from certain
Japanese newspapers. the report OF
the Presbyterian investigators says:
1T is unnecessary to say more
These articles speak for themselves
The reader can judge of the attitude
or the press when the government
permits such stuff to be printed. AS
the press always is under the CEN
sor here, when such stuff is printed
the government becomes morally re-
sponsible. The truth is prohibited
Falsehoods and libels are allowed
such a course of action only endan-
gers the relations of the govern
ments concerned"