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Show DECLARES JAPANESE BRUTALLY MISTREAT HELPLESS KOREANS By Universal Service. SAN FRANCISCO, April 2. Japanese soldiers dragging Korean girl students through Seoul's streets the girls lashed together by the thumbs and with thongs about their necks were among the sights seen by V. S. McClatehy, Sacramento Sacra-mento publisher, who returned today aboard the Shinyo Mani. Stories of brutality bru-tality that susia in Senator James I). Phtian's description of Japan as the "Germany of the far east'' were current in Korea", said McClatchy. So aroused have certain Japanese members of parliament par-liament become that daily appeals are beinc made by them to the govern nitrnt to "lift the lid" from the Korean scandal and preven t Japan becoming a reproach among nations. Mr. MeClatchy was an eyewitness to the treat merit of the Korean girls by the Japanese gendarmes and personally investigated in-vestigated the other conditions that he described in unmeasured terms. Jle said: Describes Brutalities. "In the streets of Seoul, Mrs. Clatchy and myself saw 'rl students..; suspected of inciting rebel linn against Japanese rule, ld through the streets by i armed Japanese soldiers. The irls, pernio of them hardly more than children, wi re bound in couples by their t humbs. the lashing beinr tu-d so securely t lint any ; attempt of the victims to pu!! apart wfuid have dislocated their thumbs. About their ne-ks were leather thonss, drawn tichtly into the tlesu. so tlint an attempt m escape would have meant strangulation. strangula-tion. "Besides this personal instance of cruelty, cru-elty, the Korean ejudtai was full of storins o f a 1 1 a e k s b y J a p a n e s e on K o r cans in , which the butts of rifles were the . weapons of punishment. "The true story ot" Korea probably will never be written, for the impression prevails pre-vails among foreigners in the Orient that Korea has already lost her chance of freedom. So serious have conditions become be-come that even official Japan is getting aroused, and daily interpellations occur in the Japanese parliament wherein government govern-ment leaders are asked to 'lift the lid' on Korean affairs and to explain why Japan is earning the detestation of other coun- tries. "The Japanese daily papers appear to have adopted a propaganda that savors of the German atrocities in Belgium. Every day appear detailed instances of attacks on Japanese merchants by Koreans, Ko-reans, in which the Koreans are termed aggressors upon peaceful Japanese subjects. sub-jects. Counteracting these tales, however, how-ever, are dispatches appearing almost daily referring to heavy casualties among the Koreans." |