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Show JAPANESE OFFICIALS FLOG MANY KOREANS On Reason Given la That Natives Prefer Beating to Payment of Pines. TOKIO, Aur. 23. (By the Associate Press. ) Japanese officials lo Korea, Id discussing dis-cussing the punishment adminiBtered to Koreans In the Independence movement there, say Unit the old Korean custom of flowing ban Doen continued by the Japanese author! tit n. One reason given by the JapHnese for this was that the prisons were inmif f Iclent to lodge the large number of prisoners arretted In the re vi) In tionnry movement. The Japanese officials of-ficials also declared thai the Koreans, th'ni-selvea, th'ni-selvea, sometimes preferred flogging to paying a fine. Foreign newspapers have published Bla tenieii'a from foreigners in Korea alleging that si-verat Korean men who were flogged in pursuance of court Bi-nteDces were a f terward in B'Tioua physical condition. Mention was pert leu larly made of five men who hail entered aVc;il hospital hos-pital at Seoul, who hud received for three consecutive days thirty blows each. It Is declared de-clared that the f lech was terribly swollen and discolored and that gangrene had set In. One of the of fie is Is showed the A hbocih ted Press cnrri-bponden L the instrument with which flogging is done under the orders of the court. It consists of two slender pieces of wood tightly bound with hemp twine. The eon vie ted person is tied to a wnooVn bench which is built something In the form of a cross. |