THE RISING IN KOREA

Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 166, 8 April 1919, Page 7

THE RISING IN KOREA

REPORTS FROM MISSIONARY. . SOURCES. New York, April 5.. Dispatches from Shanghai, received at Pan Francisco, state that ii son of Fyung Ki has been elected President of the Korean Provisional Government. Eight members of the Cabinet are named.— Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn. • Shanghai, April 5. The risings in Korea continue. There is a steady stream of reports from missionary sources accusing the Japanese authorities of suppressing Korean demonstrations in favour of self-determina-tion. There are undoubtedly most serious casualties among the Koreans, who have no firearms/ while thousands have been sent to gaol—Aus.-N./,. Cable Assn. SEMI-OFFICIAL MESSAGE FROM JAPAN. Tokio, April 5. A semi-ofh'eini message slates that the disturbances in Korea are spreading over the whole peninsula. There wero over a hundred risings in the past fev,- days. Rioters, armed with clubs and; axes,; assaulted the police gendarmes, burnt the post offices and Governnient buildings, and cut the telegraph wires. The cause of Ihe sudden violence of the rioters is the presence of Bolshevik propagandists, with headquarters a.t Chientao and Shanghai, from which places anti-Jap-anese Koreans were dispatched to jinstigate tho rebellion.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.