Salt Lake Tribune | 1919-03-28 | Page 2 | Many Slain in Korean Revolt

MANY SL11! KOflMLT Massacres Reported and Japanese Army Firing Upon People. PHILADELPHIA, March 27. News of massacres In Korea was received from Shanghai today in a cable message to Dr. Syngrran Rhee, representative of the Korean Ko-rean National association. The message, which is signed bv the representatives of Korea at Shanghai, reads. "Thirty-three officers of the Independence Indepen-dence Union of Korea, also leaders of Christian churches, Heaven Worshippers, Buddhists, Confucians, students, merchants, mer-chants, rising everywhere. The whole of Korea is under martial law. The Japanese Japa-nese army is firing on the people. Eleven thousand r.rrested. ?ilany tortured and massacred. One thousand men, women and children speared. Schools, churches and shops destroyed by Japanese labcr-ers. labcr-ers. Tile strike movement Is growing. Missionaries Mis-sionaries offering resistance. Uprisings 'in Siberia and Manchuria. Demand absolute ab-solute independence from Japan." Dr. Rhee, who is a delegate to the Paris peace conference, has been unable so far to obtain passports, the state department having written him that it is inadvisable at this time to permit his association to be represented there. Dr. Ithee has called a three days' congress con-gress of Koreans from Hawaii, Mexico and the United States to meet in Philadelphia, Phila-delphia, beginning April 14. More Armenians Massacred. ATHENS, Tuesday, March -S. Advi"es from Couatuntlnoplo state that a massuotv of Ar-nicuhiDs Ar-nicuhiDs by Moslem gendarmes oecurrM re cently at Aleppo. It ie reported that forty-eight forty-eight Armenians were killed. Ill seiionsiy Wounded and 150 slightly injured. It is alleged that the gendarmes attacked the peonle ussem-bled ussem-bled in the market and that the.trooya in the barracks at Aleppo did not arrive on the scene on til two hours later. The authorities have arrested 200 persons.