The sun., 1919-07-13
JAPANESE BURNED.
COREANS, CHARGE
Presbyterian Report Tells Of
Outrages Practised by
the Gendarmes.
CHURCHGOERs VICTIMS
Another Belgium Is on the
Worlds Hands," De-
clare Reports.

The New Era Movement OF the Pres
byterian Church in America yesterday
made public here q report OF alleged
Japanese atrocities in Corea- declaring
that in that country another Belgium
Is on the worlds hands" The informa-
ton from Corea was transmitted to
New York in such a manner as to avoid
the japanese censorship, 1t Is explained.
According TO Presbyterian officials.
hundreds Of Coreans who professed
Christianity were driven into churches
at the point of bayonets by Japanese
gendarmes and then fired upon through
open windows. Many Of them are said
to have burned TO death as the churches
were set on fire. Most OF the victims
are alleged to have been men. the sur
viving women and children being left
destitute.
II Is charged that men were beaten
to death and women subjected to nearly
every form OF shameful treatment
NIilder punishment. 1t is declared. in
cluded ninety blows upon the prisoners
body with a bamboo rod and kicks from
heavily booted feet.
one of the victims was a slender
nineteen-year-o Christian lad EN-
ployed as a shoemaker. He was ar
rested. together with a wealthy Corean.
both charged with circulating the Tnde-
reHdeht Ectcs, a revolutionary publica-
ton. The boy was tortured. II Is said.
and was at the point OF death in a hos
pital for more than a month before he
finhlly was sent to prison. japanese gen
darmes are reported to have drilled him
for six hours. after wnich-as Is the
usual preliminary for 4 beatins-they
applied rings above his elbows until his
upper body was greatly distorted. He
was beaten and kicked until he fell 10
the floor In a faint. At intervals cold
water was dashed upon him and when he
revived the beating was continued.
Burned with Hot Irons.
According to the narrator OF this Incl
dent, he afterward visited the young
man at the hospital. where he saw one
| OF four wounds. each fve inches long. on
the youths thigh. which had been scared
with red hot iron. What appeared to
have been a bayonet wound was re-
| ported in his abdomen and his hands
we're swollen to almost twice their nat
ural size. The victim told the visitor
he had begged his tormentors to kill
| him.
This case Is not an isolated one
says the report. Hundreds of similar
cages could be cited and fully substan-
tiated. Every police station Is a verit-
able hell on earth. Every refinement In
| brutality Is known there and such hru-
tally Is perpetrated as would blister the
1
have been beaten to death and theii
bodies handed over TO their relatives e
! bury. Others have been beaten unit
| crippled for life and then released to b,
a burden on their families until death.
Others receive this inhuman treat
ment and are then held for trial and I'M
prisonment. These latter ones frequently
as in the case OF the shoe boy, are IL
such terrible condition that few weeks
are required in the hospital before the!
are presentable for trial. A large mum
| Der of the cases now coming TO private
hospitals are OF men who have been thu.
bRten until they are nearly done for"
| Respectable women In one part O
Corea were not safe in their homes dur
ing the day. the report says. and wer,
forced TO spend most OF the daylight
hours as refugees in the hills. returning
TO their homes at night
Women Put to Torture.
The japanese police are accused O
. | 4 In hn faN-p