Salt Lake Telegram | 1930-01-15 | Page 3 | 1000 Arrested in Korean Strike

1 1000 ARRESTED m mK K RAN f Students Refuse to Attend Attend Attend At At- tend Classes Glasses in 13 Schools Colleges SEOUL Korea Jan 15 Associated Associated Associated Press One Press One thousand Korean students including girls were arrested today as the result of a astrike astrike astrike strike in thirteen colleges and high schools including two American missionary institutions Tho The Involved students estimated estimated estimated esti esti- mated to number It occurred during the thc post post-holi day examinations and ostensibly out of sympathy for the students arrested last December The December Decem Decem- her ber strike was said to havo been due to long stand standing ins ins- quarrels be between between be- be tween Japanese e e an and Korean student students students stud stud- ent of oC tho the middle le schools Many of those arrested last month still are arc aio In prison on Japanese authorities authorities author author- Illes bellevo o tho the new 11 strike was wu en engineered l by a to secret cret society with communist tendencies Those were loaded loa c into motor trucks an and taken to police stations which became overcrowd overcrowd- ed Thus Thu far there has lias been no violence violence violence vio vio- lence but police were given Iven reinforcements rein rein- reinforcements in guarding the tho schools and patrolling tho thu streets Tho The December student troubles resulted in the arrest st of ISO Korean students in tho the universities of The Takao eans were accused of oC having been Implicated In the December December De De- cember troubles trouble here which developed deI developed de de- de- de I into a riot