Korean independence outbreak beginning March 1st 1919

([S.l. :  s.n.,  1920?])

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• ), .ii.-^..'u upon 3.  group of men  and boys who had been ahouting mansoi,
and caught four of thorn. Among them was one llttlvS boy about 14
years old, v;hom they tied as they did the othor throe, beating thom
on the hand and in the face. Ue cried out, but thoy kept on bv;ating
him. As they came running in the gate to got the crowd, they mot
coming out a workman who had not been with the crowd at all, an
ignorant coolie. The soldiers turned on him and beat him most severely
three of them doing it as hard and fast as they could. Thon they let
them go. Thoy broke a piece off our wooden gate and beat one man
with it.

HOIuSK SHOT AT AH J KNOCKED 0V3H IHTO DITCH,

owiiiu ooldiers tried to stop a group of women from shouting.
As they would not stop one soldier knocked two women ovor with the
'5utt of his gtui, knocking them into the ditch. I saw one, got up bleed¬
ing and the other limping. 1 should ..ruess that one of thom vras
i.',bout fifty years of age. Thon the soldiers got do-«n on thoir knees
•nd levelled their guns at tho women and fired.

Aside from these that I have reported I have seen literally scores
oi" men and boys beaten most severely.

Signed..............

THE rOREAR RF-VOLT.

An australian missionarj' in Korea writes:
"In the afternoon of iianday, ialaroh 3rd, they turned the
Japanese firemen loose on the crowd. They looked like stage devils,
'r.reseed in close fitting black pants, red and black tunics, with a
hood over their heads. They ran after the scattering school boys at
Topspeed. They had long sticks with an iron hook at one and and a
heavy sharp wedge at the other end, A man was afterwards seen at the
hospital whoeo head had been cirushcd in by devilish weapon, and he
rras  half paralised. Members of our noTr theological class who had just
come in and had taken no part in the domonstrution, wJro arrested, tied
■'0 woodon crosses and beaten £9 times till their flesh was raw.
Some were told by the Japanese that ao Jesus their Christ suffered
on a cross, so it was fitting that they should suffer likewise. One,
?.-ho expected soon to eater the ministry, was told that It would
be a sign of being a dongorous character to do so. These men had had
no connection with the movement.  inoffensive men run the same
danger of arrest as the others.

KYDMIPO CirJRCH DAtlAGSD.

On Monday, the third of liarch, the Kiaimipo Church was badly dam¬
aged by the Japanese citizens of tho place. The (iircumstancoa are as
follows:-

Reports of the disturbances in other places had reached tho Christ-
;ans In Kyumipo but they had not taken any step to raise a distur-
';ance In their tcma but had refrained from lending any countenance
to the work. The police knew that this was true for they had made
particular inquiries of the Christians as to their knowledge of what
•ras going on elsewhere and whether they had received any instructions
to get out and shout "Kansei", They replied to the police that they had
heard rumors of what vms going on elsewhere but had had no communications
whatever and did not plan any demonstration.

On Monday, the 8rd, which was tho day for the memorial service
for the late emperor, some of the officers .and the school teachers
got the children together and held a memorial service. They had Invited
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