Show JAPANESE MAKE SERIOUS CHARGE I i AGAINST TEACHERS Say Faculty and Students of Presbyterian School Plotted Plotted Plotted Plot Plot- ted Assassinations NEW EW YORK Feb Jeb Thc S.-Thc The Japanese foreign office in a cable message sent sento to o the consul general eueral here herc for publication cation explains in con considerable detail the he recent troubles in ill Korea which leI led ledo to o the arr arrest t of teachers and students in n a Presbyterian rian mission school there The statement says 6 in in part In Tune June of last year car tho the Japanese authorities in Korea discovered l a conspiracy conspiracy con con- ori originally begun three years before by a group roup of persons including some ome teachers and end students of the tho Sin Kin Syon in North academy Pyong-An-Do Pyong and other Christians The conspirators planned the assassination of the Japanese Japa nese resident general the governor general general gen gen- eral leading Korean statesmen and others with the purpose of ultimate restoration of the old Korean re regime ime l Up Up to the present snore more titan than a hu bundred hun bun dred suspected s conspirators have ha been arrested The Tue fact of the conspiracy bag been admitted The leaders were teachers and aud students of the Sin academy and aud a 3 majority of tho those c in involved in vol d in in the ease case confessed to being believers beHe in Christianity Their arrest however had bad nothing ng to o do either r with the church or their faith In spite of this plain fact somo some of tho the missionaries affected b by this affair af- af af tf fair are reported to have been disseminating various hypotheses calculated to protect thc their J own interests |