Ogden Evening Standard | 1910-08-26 | Page 1 | Japan Will Go to War

IAPAN W Koreans Look Forward to Coming Conflict With United States New York, Aug. 20. Tho belief Is general In Korea that the I'niied States will be drawn into war with Japan within the next five years, according ac-cording to Dr. S. II. Kim. formerly mi attache of the Korean delegation at Washington and now the representative representa-tive in this city of the Korean "Insurgents," "Insur-gents," who are waging a guerrilla warfare In Korea against Japanese annexation. an-nexation. "The patriotic uprising in Korea," says Dr. Kim In a statement issued from him here. "Is kept alive largely by the conviction that in the near future fu-ture Japan will find herself with u more powerful enemy on her hands, when Korea can regain her 4.2 1.1-year-old Independence and throw off thy yokf of annexation. "It is probably not known that Korea Is maklnn a bitter strugele against Japanese plans of annexation. The true state of affairs Is kept concealed con-cealed largely by the strict Japanese censorship over the telegraph and malls. It Is Impossible to get a letter from Korea that has not been opened and duly censored. We are compelled to rely fop our ad vices upon letters carried by spies and members of the revolutionary party, or messages transmitted by runners by word of mouth to the watchers outilde the frontier. "As a matter of fact, the twenty million Korean people are resting uneasy un-easy under the yoke, and it will take but a spark to set them off into a war of liberation. We believe lha' the spark will be struck when the United States and Japan engage In war, and that war will come within the next five years." I