The New York herald., 1921-10-13

1 puoScS VI oopohSSC CuutIOl dI0
explained.
important world Powers told me that
he knew the Japanese troops in various
parts Of the country had shot down
defenceless men and women within
the last three months. because they
refused to disclose the identity OF rev.
olutionary leaders concerning whom
they were In complete Ignorance. II
this statement is true, there is no way
Of finding 1t out. because the military
government Of Corea will not permit
the publication Of information Of the
sort and. in fact. forblds 1t.
/ heard story in Taiden. between
Seoul and Fusan, which illustrates the
undaunted spirit that actuates the
Corean patriot Substantially. 1t was
that at a place called Yishun. near
Mount Shohaku Japanese style). ono
Of the Corean leaders. garbed In the
long. white froclx and wearing on his
head the little black witches beaver of
the Ming clan. came nightly to taunt
a detachment Of soldiers trying to fer
ret out the base Of hostile propaganda
activities.
shrieking HIS Defiance.
It was his custom, night after night,
to take a position on a shelf in the
mountains and shrek his defiance at
the hated Japanese. That he held the
Mikado's soldiers In little esteem was
manifest from the liberal translation
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One Of the least insulting things the
Corean patriot said to the Japanese
soldiers was that while my honored
ancestors were writing the philoso-
phies of China you dogs Of Japanese
had not learned to stand up on your
feet and didn't know enough to pick
the lice off your hairy bodies" The
Corean zealot added much more that
Is highly offensive in the Orient.
He attacked the character Of the
Japanese army and women and re-
served for his final apostrophe the
declaration that the japanese Emperor
was "the son Of a dog and not the son
of a god." as the Japanese believe.
To accentuate his statement, he
showed a 40-pound boulder hurting
down the mountainside in the direction
Of the soldiers camp. AS he did so
one Of the MilSado's fighting men es-
sayed a shot at him 800 feet up and
400 across the gully. They found him
in a clump Of weeds fifty feet below
his rocky rostrum. shot through the
left shoulder. While they were patch
ing him up they asked him why he
was angry at the Japanese. He re-
piled in the vernacular that he was
not angry at the Japanese but Just
sorry for them because they obeyed
the orders Of their Mikado to kill the
national spirit OF Corea.
"You are nothing more but slaves"
he said, land the Corean people never
will be slaves" When they tried to
find out If he had any accomplices,
he replied that "all the free peoples
Of the world arc my accomplices."
The lieutenant in charge Of the de-
tachment asked him "Who Is your
ringleader"
"God." replied the Corean. who then
died.
I heard this story several times in
moving about Corea, and that and
others pretty firmly establish the claim
that Japan is having pretty sad ex-
perience in trying to kill the national
ambitions of the Coreans.
Another story illustrating the same
point came to me from missionary
sources. It was Of a young woman In
Kokai province who was hanged by
her thumbs four months ago because
she refused to disclose the names OF
the agent Of the "Corean Provisional
Government" to whom she had paid
ten yen ($5) for a bond, the proceeds
Of which were to be used to buy arms
for the Corean revolutionaries.
Barring the attempt to assassinate
Baron Saito and Administrator Shmid-
zu. which occurred last autumn. there
have been no hostile acts Of approxi-
mate magnitude as far as the people
are permitted to know. But the mill
tary is ever present and watchful and,
according to admissions made by the
Corean leaders. frequently resorts to
cruel methods for discouraging hostile
propaganda
The mountainous character Of the
country and the great distances which
separate its centres is said to have re-
suited In the growth Of small units
of revolutionary bodies which are con-
stantly training In secret. despite the
watchfulness Of the army and police
men. Guns and ammunition are being
constantly smuggled in from neighbor-
ing Chinese States and 1t Is quite prob
able that on a call to arms the Coreans
could mass quite q respectable number
Of guns.
Corean leaders told me that there
are between 100000 and 100000
Of their fellow countrymen in Mon
golia and Manchuria, whittier they
have fed to escape punitive aggres-
sions of the Japanese. There patriots
are officially described as criminals"
their offence being the promotion Of
the independence movement. The
same authorities are responsible for
the Information that these men, who
are said to be In desperate state of
poverty, lack only leadership and
equipment to take the field against the
Japanese in their native country. The
Chinese Governor-General OF Man.
churia recently appropriated 100000
yen for relief work among these Co.