Pueblo chieftain., 1921-01-23
CANADIAN MISSIONARIES TELL
OF ALLEGED MASSACRES, PLUMBER
and BURNING IN KOREAN TOWNS
Say Japan, In Face Of Strongest Protest From China,
Has Sent an Amy Bent on
determination

Those cases he declares are "ahso-
iutely authentic" the premises having
been inspected by four missionaries
and a custom Official
quoting Koreans as his authority
he says that 23 persons were shot and
seven burned to death in their own
homes at Cheng San; that so were
shot at I'm Tong ia and that these
We're all Christian villages.
The soldiers and commanding Of
hcer who soc to these places" asserted
Mr.. Foote, "as Il general thing have
no conversation whatever with the
people but do their diabolical deeds
and pass on. Ku Sci Tong is the only
place where any reason was given to
the people at all for the action.
Korean accompanied the soldiers and
told tho people that the officer said he
mad evidence that the owner of the
house had collected money for Korea n
patriotic purposes. If only the Offend
ers suffered, even the Koreans would
not seriously object: but it is because
the perfectly innocent and helpless arc
uone TO death without even an oppor-
tunity to say word in their own be-
haf that the injustice and hardship
appears"
Describing the action of tho jan
anese soldiers at Kan Chang, Rev. Mr.
foote said that tho young men of that
village were ''herded in front of a
Korean house and without even a form
ot examination, shot down, 25 in ALL
ihen the bodies were heaped tosek4oer
IN two piles and covered with wood
and burned. While the fuel was being
placed on them, some of tho wounded
sun were able TO rise but were bayo-
netted to the ground and met their
fate In the flames.
know these people we'll" Mr.
cote continued. They live in an out
of-theway glen. The land was not
fertile and fire wood is scarce They
were n quiet hard working people.
who struggled hard to make a living.
Their church and school, their Bible
and hymn books, their Sunday wor-
their JOY. They were not patriotic SOL
olers and disapprovcd OF the church
taking part in politics.
Miss Emma NJ. Pslethorpe. OF On
tario, member of the Canadian
Presbyterian mission at YonSjunr,
OF five men from the village of suchiI-
go who. she says. were led by the
japanese soldiers to the top of a hill
about three miles from YongjunS and
there put to death.
In the top of the HILL" she declares,
thero is quite large hollow not Wis
ihie from the road or village Tho vic
TINS were made TO sit at the bottom of
This where they were slashed at with
swords. 1t is reported by an eye wit
hp9S thdt Two SWORDS were broken and
then the awful work was finished with
payonets. Then the loose Garth was
pulled down from the sides of tho hol-
low to cover the mutilated bodies
In answering inquiries at the jap
anese war office. Lieutenant Colonel
Hsta- told The Associated Press cor
respondent that the number of Jap
ansc5 troops employed in the Chienta
anair was 5000 not 5000 Villa -cs had
been burned. he said but only in cases
where tho majority of Inhabitants were
known TO be in league with the out
laws.
Referring to the charge that an or
Sanizcd attempt wae made TO wipc
out tho whole Christian community
colonel Bsta said that 1t was possible
that a majority of those who had been
executed were Christians but they
were not punished for their religion
but for banditry and rebellion. No
charge was made against the mission-
aries.
Colonel Hata, while admitting that
marsh measures had been adopted. said
bad conditions had existed in that dis
triet for a long time owing to the un-
checked activities OF Chinese bandits.
Korean outlaws and Russian BoIshc-
WIKI. He was confident that tho jap
ancsc soldiers had not been guilty of
tho barbaritics with which they had
been charged.