OCR Text |
Show BARBAROUS ACTS GHARGEDTO JAPS KOREANS TELL SHOCKING STORY OF THE DEEDS OF JAPANESE PUNITIVE EXPEDITION. Military Authorities Charged With Having Burned Thirty-two Villages, Women and Children Perishing Perish-ing in Flames. Washington. A statement charging Japanese military authorities with deeds more 'frightful and barbarous" than anything ever alleged to have occurred oc-curred in Belgium during ihe war was issued here Thursday by the Korean commission, based, the commission said, on authentic reports received by it from Manchuria. The Japanese punitive expedition sent to the Ilunchun district, following follow-ing Hie clash last November between Japanese and Korean insurgents, was alleged to have burned thirty-two villages, vil-lages, "killed all the male inhabitants of the district" and massacred 145 peaceful inhabitants in one town, where one house was burned, it was added, "with women and children inside." in-side." "Authentic reports received by the Korean commission in Washington." the statement said, "show a total of 3SG noneombatants arrested and executed, exe-cuted, of whom eighty-six were wives and twelve were mothers, who answered answer-ed 'odoro kaso' (gone somewhere, we do not know) to questions as to whereabouts where-abouts of their husbands and sons." The Japanese government's "reign in Korea," the commission asserted, had now been carried into southern Manchuria, where "some million Koreans" reside under Chinese rule, "driven out of their native land by the Japanese." Wyoming Chief Justice Dead. Cheyenne, Wyo. Justice Cyrus Beard of t lie Wyoming Justice court died Lh'cember 1G after an illness of three days. Death was caused by neuralgia of the heart. Judge Beard, who was 70 years of age, had three times been elected to the supreme bench. |