Show JAPS PERSECUTE CHRISTIANS SAY PRESBYTERIANS Accusation c of Atrocities l cities s in il 5 Korea orea Made l at Church V 1 Headquarters jt f 2 cw York Jul July 12 A A report of ot al- al ge Japanese nt atrocities In tn Korea was 18 at tornado public today tony nt at the headquarters of ot r the Presbyterian r nn church chu ch In America a It Is a result of ot Investigations b by rep rep- 4 In Korea of ot tho church following the thc Imprisonment of ot some sorno of ot Is s J missionaries b by tho Japanese au- au I Hundreds 1 of or Koreans Kor who had h pro pro- progressed gressed foss d Christianity arc said to have been beon by Japanese gendarmes at the point of at bayonets Into churches I there to to be fired fred on through open windows wIn wIn- dos dows hs is the they hud huddled ed In terror and later ter t to perish h in tho flames as ns the places of oC worship put to tho torch torch lost of these victims It Is narrated were were ere mOD moa moe Surviving women omen and chIren children chit chI dren ren wort wert 10 loft In destitution II H. II IL ln lorwood a 1 missionary living liv- liv ing IngIn in Seoul was as quoted In fn tho Tokio Advertiser d of r April 29 23 1910 In accor according ing to tho report re regarding a n visit he made to to Pal Tan a market town A fortnight before Japanese troops he said he was vas told burned thirty six of or tho the forty forty- tort fort houses In the village of oC iwo miles from Ial Pal Tan Inn t the Inhabitants were Christian Pat Pal Pal Tan an ho he said ho was Informed escaped both Ira fire and md sword because there were no Christians there there Refinement of or Preliminary police examinations of ot l Koreans suspected of or complicity In the revolutionary movement mo aro are said In Inthe Inthe the report to Include every human humm re- re refinement In brutality men being beaten beat beat- en to death red women subjected to nearly nearly- eer every possible form of ot shameful treatment Milder punishment it Is said Included in included tn- tn eluded ninety blows rained upon tho prisoners prisoner's bod body with a bamboo rod and the tho administering of ot many boot kicks Rick I Respectable women In one ono part ot of I Kor-ca Kor or 1 wore were not safo In their homes during the day da the tho report continues and so eo were wore forced to spend most of ot their time as is refugees In tho hills re returning returning re- re turning to their homes at night The Tho Japanese police designate all ell women who favor Independence of or One case social outcasts their land as 9 cited referred d to a Christian woman boon whose whoso arm was said to have wrenched from tho socket by her per per- tors The Tho of ot March 17 11 1919 1319 is quoted as lS saying s Tho Tho stirring up of ot the minds of ot the Koreans Is the work of or tho the American missionaries This uprising Is their I work worle There are arc a 1 good many shallow minded Pl people among the missionaries mis mis- They make malto the tho minds of ot th tho Koreans Korean lad tad and plant the tho seeds coeds of ot democracy Comment by In conclusion after publishing what itro are alleged to be bo violently anti Ameri can articles from certain Japanese s 's s the She report of oe the tho Presbyterian rian In estl Investigators says sas It t. t Is unnecessary to say Bay more These articles speak for themselves The Tho reader can n judge of ot the attitude of ot tho the press when the the- government permits permits permits per per- mits such stuff sture to be bo printed As tho the press always 1 is ty under the censor here when such stuff Is printed tho the government government govern govern- ment morally responsible responsible- The Tho truth is prohibited Falsehoods and libels are allowed Such a n course courso of ot action only endangers the relations of ot the governments concerned Through cable ahle and mall dispatches and otherwise n m many of ot the occurrences occurrence outlined In tho the Presbyterian report on alleged Japanese Jap atrocities In Korea and others similar to them have havo been made known to tho the American public at nt tho the time of or tho the disorders there thero and since then The Tho Japanese government go has recognized recognized that excesses occurred occurred In Korea Premier IIara on June 17 stating to a delegation from Crom a Japanese political party reports published in the tho foreign pre press 8 were true truo In part P The Thc premier said the officers and men concerned had been punished and that steps were being taken to prevent pre a repetition of or the trouble |