RISING AT KOREA

Thames Star, Volume LII, Issue 13933, 11 July 1919, Page 4

RISING AT KOREA

*EHE FIGHT FOR FREEDOM. In Peking several fcieareb soiccuefticta, I whiose miemibers aggiregata -andlliofnisi of j (pemsonifii, are supporting *he independence inioveimeinife in Koirteai, it i& understood/Nottaible a^ them, are the Progressive pidortyand i?h© Heaven Worshippers, which together have a membership of more tihan 2,000,000. Otheirs are the New Koa-eain Society' md the, lAgkt Rmtoriing Socdeity. J SiiKty --tihioiusiaind- s/tiudieaits'of neiairly all edinoaitdoaial" instifcitioiiisij 'dndudiing Gavetfnmenib scihooils, pairftdcdpiated mi tihe s raoveaaeuiiti. It is. sltated tihafc tihe iimiirrecitaoini. was eiujpported aim by Qmsit&ain, amd • B.uddhist. boddesi. { T!h© Buddhisfts in. KoWii aunibeir (abomif) one miliioca. They have S"000 j tleimpileis aaid 100,000 priestes- Tlhej Jaipiaaiiesie Lave aittempited .to Uise 1' ■Btiddhasm itio strengitiheini' their pooitdoni mi Koirea., sending 1 miainy yonmg 1 pa-ie^ (to Japfom; •.. Itb ; be "€(dutialtied? Nevemthelessi. many Buddhists artet bolievled to have been clotsiely cioninecited \rikfo the : ansuinrtecitlioni. Cbrißitdaailiity has made rapid progress im Koa-ea. during; iMirty years. ! Two large oiissiotniairy bodfe afire working tihere. The Amesricnni Metbodasib Missdioin, hlas 750 cihuirciliesi amd 100,000 foUloiwerls, -while the American Presbyterian Mission: has 2000 churches and aibout 200,000 adher j emits. The Korain Christiamfe, are; mostly men, of dharacter and have l'sceived higher 1 education. The demoiri'Sitiraitiiioins to fajroiur of independetmoe tJhait. begtan in nearly all tofwms and villages throtugjhouiti Korea were at first oirderly and Mmiited to the deliveiry of speedbeig ■ and 1 thedis-; ta-ibuitdon. of ciapdes of iaamnfestloeßi. !, La ; lieir, the m/cxvemamfc tboifc a; dis- '• tiniotly revio'liitiioin.ary cha-raoter', and this resulted m clashes with the Jai]>- \ . anesfe aiuthoaittdes and in cajswklties> on bottih. sddesi.