The Alaska daily empire., 1921-01-27
JAPANESE TROOPS
 ARE ACCUSED 0F AWFUL BARbARITY
Canadian Missionaries Charge Koreans in Manchuria
 Indiscriminately Shot.
VILLAGES WIPED OUT
Women and Children Forced To Watch Execution of
 All Young Men.

TOKYO, Jan 27. - Charges that the Japanese troops sent into the Chinese district of Chiept2O, a Man churian community just over the Korean border, indiscriminateiy shot hundreds of the villagers without scmblance Of trial, burned villages, schools churches and crops, have been made public by Canadian mis sionaires stationed in Manchmia.
 Replying to these charges. Lieu tenant Colonel iEata, of the Japanese Imperial Staff, at the Japanese War; Office stated that the Japanese soldiers had burned churches and schools only after evidence had been obtained that they were being used as centers of intrigue by Korean malcontents. He said the villages destroyed were those in which the inhabitants had been in league with the outlaws He declared that thc5 villagers were executed only after inquiry by the military and civilian. 
 Inquiry Ordered.
 The Japanese Government has. sent to Chientao d commission to in. yestigate the conduct of the troops This body is headed by Colonel Mig. umachi, formerly mlitsry attache. at Washington.
 One Of the missionaries pr. s. II. Martin of Newfoundland, a physician attached to the Canadian Pcrsbyter ian Mission at Yongjung, who vis- tied the village of Norabowie, on October 3l, two days after the Jap. anese went through that district | states:
 "The facts recorded below apply to the whole district of Kando Or. Chientao, in the southern part of the provinces Of KIrin, China
 Japan. under the strongest pro. test from China has sent over 1000 men into this part of China With the seeming intention of wiping out of existence, if possible, the WholeI Christian community. especially all young men
 Villages Burned
 Village after village ls daily being methodicalIy burned and the young men shot so that at present. we have a ring of villages surround ing this city that have suffered from Ire or wholesale murder or both The facts below are absolutely accurate,
 At daybreak complete cordon # Japanese infantry surrounded tho main Christian village of Norabawic and starting from the top Of the valleys set fire To the immense
 acb5 Of unfhreshed mil!ct barley and straw and then ordered the oc-. .upaDts Of the house outside. In each ease as the father or son stepped forth. h. was shot on sight, and as he fell on his face perhaps only half dead great piles of burning straw were thrown on top of him.
 T va. shown the blood marks on the ground caused by the bayonel thrusts iuuicted on the men as they str0yc lg rise from the flames, in spite of,hc fact that they had been shot three times at close range The bodies were soon charred beyond recognition The mothers. wives and even the children were forced spec. tators Of this trea -ment of all the grown nales of the village Houses were fired and soon the whole coun- try was full of smoke which was plainly visible from this town. The. Japanese soldiers then spread out end burned the houses of Christian believers in other villages all the way down the valley 10 the main road Then they returned home to| celebrate the Emperors birthday
 Women Wailing.
 As we approached the nearby villages we found only women and children with some white-haired men The women with young babies
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