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Show Japanese Try to Stamp Out Christianity in Korea New York, Feb. " 12. Dr. A. .7. Brown, president of the Presbyterlau board of foreign missions, will go to Washington tomorrow to present Pres-w Idont Taft charges recently received from missionaries In Korea "that Japan is making efforts to stamp out Christianity Chris-tianity thorc by torturing converts, closing mission schools and interfering interfer-ing with tho work of the American missionaries, of whom there are bo. tween throe and four hundred in Korea, Kor-ea, mostly under the boards of foreign for-eign missions of the Methodist and Prosbj terinn churches ' An account of tho situation givon by a missionary just returning from Korea characterizes conditions there as little short of barbarous. While there as jet have been recorded re-corded no cases of physical attack on Americans, they are compelled to endure en-dure constaut Interference with their work and cory possiblo means is being be-ing employed to nullify their efforts and discourage them, so that they will give up in despair and return to tho United States, leaving the Koreans' to be dealt with by the Japanese. ' oo |