REBELLION IN KOREA.

Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3408, 12 February 1920, Page 6

REBELLION IN KOREA.

INSTIGATED BY B()LSI:IE\’I!\'

WASHINGTON, Feb. 9.

Au ofiicial despatch states that 2000 -Koreans, armed and equipped by the Bolsheviks, crossed into KOYOII fl'om Manchuria. and attacked a J2lPs“‘°Se post of 700 men at night. The)’ killed 300 and rou'rod the remainder. The dospatch adds: The atfack has initiated an active rebellion in Kol'(‘-3- It is Tfosc:'ibCd as the beginning of an (‘normous affair. -

JAPANESE SL'FF]‘}R HEAVILY.

\\'.—\.SHINGTON, Feb. 9%

Further despatches say that the Koreans were greatly reinfioreed in ’several instances. The Japanese were _-o-utnumbered and suffered heavily, and ‘were forced to wi'thdra.w. According to oflficial information, the Bolsheviks are in close touch with the Koreans, making ‘.9. effort to-provide the latter with equipment. It appears that ‘the entire railway from Vladivostoek 'through Northern Manchuria. has come under Bolshevik influence. Three Japanese divisions are in Korea, but are badly scattered. American offieials believe there is little Bolshevik feeling amongst the Koreans, but the latter are so stirred against the Japanese that they are willing to assist any element attacking them. ,