New Britain herald., 1920-02-20
LIBERTY OR DEATH IS KOREAN ULTIMATUM
Mill Never Agree to Rule by
 Japanese

Shanghai, Feb. 20.-The Koreans will suffer eAtermination before they will acquiesce in the rule of Japan, declares Iia ron Kim ka-ch him. former ly one of Korea S elder statesmen and officials who has penetrated the Jap anese coidOn around Korea. He is now one of the members of the little community of Korean refugees who have found haven here in China
 There can be no peace," he said. The Koreans will never waver. They nay not win for many years, but they will never yield"
 He declared that the people are en- tirely without rights and without po- litical representation. All special privileges are in the hands of the Japanese, he added, and they control all the sources of wealth and rapidly are acquiring actual ownership of the land. The Korean nation, he said, is without a mouthpiece, for he asserted not one Korean newspaper edited by I> >oreans is permitted to exist and pub he meetings are wholly forbidden
 Not more than three people, even for social purposes, may gather and talk together" he said. All of the ! schools of the country are under the 1 direction Ot Japanese teachers and the instruction is given in the Japan , csc language from Japanese text Dooks.''
 He said that the history that is taught to children is garbled in such a Way as to glorify Japan and dis credit Korea.
 "Japan's course" he declared, "has been driving the people out of Korea into Manchuria at the rate of 100000 year. This is because the Japanese have taken control of everything They operate the railways, the banks, transportation lines, and customs of fees and in those few places where there are Korean officials the Japan csc adviser is never far distant.
 Even the Japanese ricksha coolies are favored for they are permitted to solicit fares at exits of railway sta- Korean rickSha men are barred.
 Japanese servants in private homes are empowered to check eXpen- diturcs in these homes and to forbid any of which they do not approve and the Korean who desires to withdraw money he has deposited in a bank must first obtain permission from the police to do so.
 Since the revolution started Baron Kim said, the jails have been filled to oVerfioWing and thousands have been put to the torture. But the people nave never WaVered and thlS is why students have thrown them- selves upon bayonots with barred breasts when police and military turn ed upon them. The people may dle They will never yield
 Baron Kim. who is fl years old, came to Shanghai to become a part of the officialdom of a republic that eN- ists only in the hopes and prayers oL the people of Korea, for the leaders of the revolutiOnists, with the pattern of a. government made up of officials chosen secretly last summer, have grouped themselves together here with Shanghai as their capital. The connection between this government and the people of Korea is q carefully guarded secret. and is q system not unlike the '.undcrsround railroad' by which fugitive slaves sought safety in the north in the days of the American civil war. It is effective, however, for the behests of the eXiled govern ment are swiftly transmitted and arc said to be obeyed to the letter by the masses under the Japanese rule i'll Korea.
 Through the decade that has fol- lowed the annexation by Japan, Baron Kim has worked for korea's s inde- pendence.
 He said he escaped with party from Korea by a perilOus march oEer- land, going by devious routes through the toughest country and travelling for the most part at night. In their final dash they waded through swamps, crossed rivers in dugouts, hid through days in fields and slashed their way through underbrush before they knew they were safe in China. 
 SUCCEEDS SIR OLIVER.
 Birmingham, Eng" Feb. 2O.--