Show N KO AN 1 A AROUSED D BY 8 m DISPATCHES rAICH Launch Move for Independence Independence dence Ask Aid of Wilson By Associated Press PEKIN Tuesday March Advices Ad reaching this cIty from Korea Inot- Inot cate that the younger generation there has has been stirred by Paris dispatches dwelling upon th the prominence given at Paris to the principle of of I self self- elf elf- determination of peoples Japanese papers papers pa- pa pers received here charge mission schools students with participating in disturbances throughout Korea Reports are b being circulated by the Koreans that the dEath of former Emperor Emperor Em- Em Yi Ti I Heui eui was due to suicide which was committed as a protest against the projected marriage o of the heir to the Korean throne to a Japanese Japanese Japa- Japa I nese princess The impression prevails serl- serl that lack of arms will prevent a ous insurrectionary movement The I Japanese are forbidding the Koreans to own weapons except fowling pieces American business interests have hae re reported reported ported an incrEasing unrest among laborers la- la borers especially in the mines American Ameri- Ameri can missionaries are said tobe observIng observIng Ing Japanese laws scrupulously and refraining refraining re- re from any participation in pv- pv movements ALL CLASSES TAKE PART By Associated Press SHANGHAI Saturday March The demonstrations which have hae been going on in Korea have been more general than has been reported by the Japanese according to Information reaching this city from across the Korean Korean Ko- Ko rean frontier It is said sald that all classes Laking of the population are part The outbreak was planned for March 4 the day of the funeral of former Emperor Emperor Em- Em Yi Heul It is reported but the Nationalists sUddenly changed their I plans and began demonstrations before that date The Japanese gendarmes inn in the Interior of the country had been sent sent- to Seoul for duty during g the funeral funeral fu- fu and the movement gained considerable considerable con con- headway before any measures measures meas- meas ures could be taken to break it up PASTORS ARRESTED It is claimed by the Koreans that all schools and churches have been closed and that native pastors and elders to the estimated number of 1000 have been arrested There have been a number of rumors ot of a sensational nature tta- tta tune ture current here In conn connection with the outbreak but they have not been confirmed It is declared the movement move move- I ment for the Independence of Korea has been going on secretly ever since since the country was annexEd by Japan In 1910 T persons were killed and forty wounded at Korea on March 4 according to a translation of an account ot of the disorders In that country published in a. a Japanese newspaper newspaper news news- paper at Seoul and translated b by the Reuters Reuter's agency MOB KILLS GENDARMES At the village of south of four gendarmes fired on a amob amob mob until their ammunition was exhausted exhausted ex- ex hausted one fifty persons th tle account states The mob eventual eventual- the gendarmes At twenty rioters were I slain In an engagement I The activities ot of girl students throughout the demonstrations in Kot Ko- Ko t rea are emphasized by the newspaper which males makes particular mention of the I fact that at Anju two Korean I gendarmes discarded their uniforms joined a a. crowd and shouted Long Jong live I Korea The Japanese guards thereupon there there- upon fired eight persons being killed and thirty wounded four mortally The Note localities mentioned In Inthe the foregoing dispatch would seem to indicate that the disorders in Korea I are centering in province on the northern and western side yf Ko- Ko rea The principal city in the province pro 1 Ince is which has a population population pop pop- ot of WILSON AID SOUGHT By Associated Press WASHINGTON March dent Wilson has been asked by the Korean National association to initiate initiate ate action at the peace conference looking to the independence of Korea with the country to be guided by a mandatory until such time as as' as the league of nations shall decide that It ItIs itis Is fit for full self government Rhee who with Henry Chung is an authorized delegate or of orthe the association In the United States made public at the same sante time a a. letter addressEd to the peace conference asking ask asli- ing that Korea be freed from rom the dorn- dorn I of Japan and given fun full freedom free free- dom eventually This letter was sent to the state department for transmission transmission sion to Paris Both letters assert that Japan established established es- es a protectorate over Korea in indirect indirect direct violation of her treaty obligations obligations obliga- obliga to Korea and that that time the country has bEen misruled Its natural resources exploited for the benefit only of the its literature literature litera- litera ture suppressed and Its religious worship worship wor- wor ship supervised The mEssage to the American state department said AccordIng to private cablegram received received re- re from the KorEan headquarters Shanghai China some Koreans Koreans Ko- Ko reans including the members ot of ChrIstian churches in Korea have declared declared de- de independence of Korea March 1 at other centers As a consequence consequence con con- sequence Japanese authorities In Korea Korea Ko- Ko rea have arrested more than 1000 men connected with the movement and Inflicting inflicting In- In upon them Inhuman punish punish- ment We Ve take the liberty to ask you In the name of humanity to use your yourI good offices with the Japanese government government gov- gov to see that these patriotic I men shall not bE cruelly treated or orI their lives Byes forfeited unjustly I |