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Show KOREANS REAFFIRM CLAIM TO LIBERTY i WASHINGTON". Aug. 3l. Korean in- i dcpeuiliMicu was declared in a pruclama- ' lion "to the people of the world" Issued : i hero tonight In the name of the "eovern- I numt and people of the Kcpublie of 1 Korya." The proclamation was signed lv Dr. Svngam Khee, president of the "republic," and J. Kiusic S. Kimm, ehair- ; man of the Korean conmi.ssion lo the ; pjrtoe con f ereneo. ; Declaring that Korea ws dented free development us "one of t he alleged ) atonomoiiH unit s of a Japanese nir ok federation." the proolann! Ion said J--l-i pan's "reeont promise of reforms in the ; Korean government mead only a new ! lorin or the cruel, denaticnalism anil de- ! Christ lani.ing process ml or which we have suffered unspeakale tortures." j Assorting that the J panose govern - ) men is "wholly unfit" t: act as leader i for the Korean nation, th e proclamation declared that Japan by "making mere , brute force t he sole i nit run en t. of her imperial progress has enphasized the I merely dostruetive agonoe! of society, in direet contrast with t he peiee-loving and fundamentally ernst riii't ire principles , which the Korean perple have demon- .' fu rated to h at the I'.nmiation of their system of culture." |