Indiana daily times. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1914-1922, 1920-02-16
ANS BEAR
TURES TO
AN FREEDOM
and Poor United in
yrdom to Serve Cause
of Nation.
lRRED BY BOLSHEVIKI
CHARLEs EDWARD HOGUE.

CHARLES EDWARD HOGUE,
spOndent of Newspaper Enterprise
Association.
s FANGHAI, Feb. 16.-Korea in revolt,
n impetus by bolshevik support, pre-
Us o spectacle wholly unique.
p or it is not an uprising of an armed
5eople, made with anger and lusting for
blood. Instead, it is a protest against
serfdom by a nationally peaceful peo-
Hp1e; the martyrdom of a nation for the
81 cause Of freedom.
On March 1, 1919, thirty-three men
81 formed a committee and drew up decla-
ration of independence. In the group
were merchants and scholars and jan
itors. 1t was truly representative group
4of Koreans-and it is well to note that
the uprising, which began that day, has
throughout been that of a united people
without class distinction.
When the declaration of independence
was signed the members of the COM
mittee telephoned TO the police and told
them what they had done, stating where
they could be found when the inevitable
arrest should be made. Then they waited
IN private dining room of a restaurant
in Seoul for the arrival Of the Japanese
GIRLS RIDDEN DOWN
BY HORSEMEN.
When the signers of the declaration had
been thrown into prison the nation rose
as one man and, with the cry of "Man-
sei"-Long live KOrea-hurled itself
upon the bayonets of the Japanese gen
darmes. Mobs of coolies stormed police
stations, demanding arrest, students tore
japanese textbooks to bits and walked
out Of their cIassrooms, girls waved Ko-
rean flags and died under the bamboo,
old women and children offered barred
breasts to the swords of the gendarmes-
these and many other tragic incidents
were witnessed by the foreign residents
of Korea who stood at their windows
helplessly watching the slaughter.
Conditions in Korea at that time have
been likened unto those created by the
Turks in Armenia. Girls were ridden
down by mounted men and dragged by
their hair to a police station. There they
\ were Subjected 20 indignities that are not
s printable.
USED TORTURES
#TO CHECK REVOLT.
Prisoners had theft fingers pressed over
red hot wires, men were trussed up and
suspended by their shoulders until they
$lost consciousness, naked flesh was
4 scared with hot irons, toenails were torn
out with pincers. hooks were gouged into
bodies and boys were put in viee-Iike
device and squeezed.
HUI WElcE Fduu EtQ pSppeE were
J into nOstrils, slivers were driven under
4 finger nails, men and women were logged
! to death with bamboo strips and tortures
Us of the Spanish Inquisition were ap-
plied-
And these things did not come from
bind fury of sudden passion. They were
nplied cold bloodedIy in police exami
on rooms days after the arrest Of
victims.
ut. as always, the reaction has worked
the confusion OF the Offenders and has
Il the Korean people into a solid unir
independence. Reforms in govern
Mt will be of little avail now; the
rs Of freedom have been lit and are
rning brightly.
Ihis is not revolt stirred into being
professional sgitators. It is ma
Nh movement that seems likely to be
reaching in IT'S effect.
provisional government has been
kszed and has set up secret head
rs in Shanghai. Just who and
lis involved in the secret govern
1ire still a mystery to the Japanese.
have devoted a large portion of
most through espionage system to
70 fathom ting mysteries Of the
n revolutionary body without sue
And they are worried.
en- a prince OF the royal Korean
= sought TO leave Seoul a short
ago to come to China>and Join the
utionists he was stopped at the Dor
*s Ind since has been held, virtually a
Sbner, in his palace at the Korean
ral
d that led to the establishment OF
underground railway" as efficient as
operated from south to north IN
] war days. Already there have come
81 OF Korea barons and commoners, rich
len and Door men, women and children
this secret route. And try as they
i'll the Japanese have been unable to
Top the exodus.
APPS GAVE PROMISE
F BETTER RULE.
Behind the provisional government is
mother organization called the National
ociety. The existence OF this society
well known to the japanese but its
nembership and activities are secret from
2them. In a general way the objects
of the society are explained as being
TO 1T the Korean people for self
government" But it is actually much
ider in SCOPE than that. To its ac-
vities may be traced the ardor with
hich the Koreans are adhering to their
eelaration of Independence and the
ortitude with which they have borne op-
preston and tortoure.
Il When Baron Saito, former minister or
sNthe navy and a man who IS a figure Of
prominence in Japan, was appointed
overnor- general CT Korea, the japanese,
With much ostentation, announced that
new era had dawned for Korea. Every
3%hing was to be changed for the better.
But an interview with the baron, given
4 in writing and after several days de-
liberation, brings out Just this:
There is TO be greater freedom
Of the press-with restrictions.
2-TOrtures have been forbidden
but continue.
S--n any cases of torture come to
the Ettentfon of the baron with in
disputabIe proof the offenders will be
punished
4-The Japanese do not want to de-
stroy the Koreans racial identity,
but they must stIII continue to de-
vote most of their time in school to
a study of Japanese, must speak only
Japanese and read only Japanese text
books.
AMI, too, a great fuss was made over
the announcement that military rule had
been abolished in Korea and the gend-
armes, whose cruelty had become a by
word, were dismissed. 1t is true that the
gendarmes, as such, are no more, but the
same men, now in another uniform, are
still very much on the job-as special
policemen.
a great tragedy is being enacted in
Korea, that must be clear to every ma
ton, and with our Wanted concern for
the oOureSsed and dnwutroddnn raonIes