Show JAPANESE CURB KOREAS KOREA'S MOVE FO FOR FREEDOM Natives Ask UIL Ultimate lude- lude p- p Nippon May l Grant Reforms y Washington Mai March elt 1 Official 1 Official advices advices ad ad- vices received by Jo tho state department today from from the thc orient described tl 6 In Independence Independence independence In- In dependence movement In Korea as a spontaneous one which had assumed largo large proportions Xo No effort cHort at or organized organized organized or- or resistance to J Japanese authority authority author author- Jt ity had been undertaken but demonstrations demon demone and meetings B have been held throughout the thc country Many Ian of thc the demonstrations were re repressed repressed re- re pressed b by the thc Japanese authorities but it was was t said aid tho the Japanese later adopted a more moro conciliatory attitude and that thc they might treat the a aspirations aspirations Hons of oC the Koreans with more sym sym- pathy Immediate demands of oC the thc Koreans Koreans Ko Ko- reans Included freedom of or speech right of or posH position Ion and the thc teaching of ot th thc Korean language In the tho schools with ultimate Independence for the thc countr country I G Summoned v I Tho The demonstrations at nOt S Seoul and other points were planned to take place on en tho the day of ot the tho former emperors emperor's tuner funeral l but after learning that thal the Japanese had or ordered ered In iii from Crom the outlying districts the tIte leaders launched tho the movement two days earl earlier I c r The state department l Issued suet this statement on tl the c d demonstrations Tho rh department of or has las re rc received information relative to lo tho the rec re re- re recent recent c cent nt Disturbances s at S Seoul and other parts pane of or Korea res resulted ted fn Iii u thc the arrest of or a lar large e number of rioters The Tho trouble rouble seems to have originated Inn through s-h s the circulation of oC a document signed by two thirty Koreans containIng containing containing contain contain- ing attacks upon the Japanese government govern s-overn- I ment went and declaring the Independence of or Korea A parade composed largely largel of students of or Japanese and mission I schools was broken up b by the tho police at Seoul Disorders occurred at other points particularly In Jn northern Korea orea where there was reported a a. small loss of or life lito Fc Fe v I on Are r CJ Christian ChristianA 3 A telegram ram received b by the department depart ment reports that on March larch 12 the thc street demonstrations had practically ceased at Seoul and elsewhere and that it was officially announced that only 15 per cent of the tho active participants participants pants were Christians that tho the principal principal principal prin prin- cipal leaders were members of ot a new political religious society and that foreign ml missionaries were not connect connected con con- d with the iho movement The object object ob oh- of or the thc demonstration Is stated to have been to lo obtain Creed freedom om of or speech right ht o of petition and use of ot the Korean Ko Ko- rean language In schools and the correction correction cor- cor of other grievances |