THE SITUATION IN KOREA
ALLEGED CRUELTY OF THE JAPANESE REGIME. Tokio, September 16. Eye-witnesses'in Korea ."testify that tho Koreans bto bitter againet tho Japanese owing to the punishments meted out to the demonstrators, in favour.oi independence. Sinco the spring, rising twenty thousand have been imprisoned. Thousands were flogged with the wootlen faddle, a barbarous torture used in UKI Ono" eye-witness states: "I have seen many photographs' of youthful students with their flesh cut into shreds, niauy of them died. Other indignities were offered the women students. Admiral Saito, tho now Governor of Korea, is introducing more humane rule, and promises an immediate amelioration of conditions and ovcntual Beli-government. Ho announces that Japan does not desire to oradiciito Korean oulture. Saitos administration marks tho end of the brutal military regime which followed tho ris-in"s-Aus.-N.Z. Cable Aesn.
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Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 303, 18 September 1919, Page 5
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135THE SITUATION IN KOREA Dominion, Volume 12, Issue 303, 18 September 1919, Page 5
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