“We passed along the path,” wrote the correspondent of the Japan Advertiser, “which ran along the front of the village lengthwise, and in about the middle we came on a compound surrounded by burnt poplars, which was filled with glowing ashes.  It was here that we found a body frightfully burned and twisted, either of a young man or a woman.  This place we found later was the Christian church, and on coming down from another direction on our return I found a second body, evidently that of a man, also badly burned, lying just outside the church compound.  The odour of burned flesh in the vicinity of the church was sickening.

“We proceeded to the end of the village and climbed the hill, where we found several groups of people huddled under little straw shelters, with a few of their pitiful belongings about them.  They were mostly women, some old, others young mothers with babes at breast, but all sunk in the dull apathy of abject misery and despair.

“Talking to them in their own language and with sympathy, Mr. Underwood soon won the confidence of several and got the story of what happened from different groups, and in every case these stories tallied in the essential facts.  The day before we arrived, soldiers came to the village, some time in the early afternoon, and ordered all the male Christians to gather in the church.  When they had so gathered, to a number estimated to be thirty by our informers, the soldiers opened fire on them with rifles and then proceeded into the church and finished them off with sword and bayonets.  After this they set fire to the church, but as the direction of the wind and the central position of the church prevented the upper houses catching, soldiers fired these houses individually, and after a time left.

“As we passed down the ruined village, returning to our rikishas, we came on the last house of the village, which was standing intact, and entered in conversation with the owner, a very old man.  He attributed the safety of his house to its being slightly removed, and to a vagary of the wind.  He was alive because he was not a Christian and had not been called into the church.  The details of his story of the occurrence tallied exactly with the others, as to what had happened.”

One example will serve to show what was going on now all over the country.  The following letter was written by a cultured American holding a responsible position in Korea: 

“Had the authorities handled this matter in a different way, this letter would never have been written.  We are not out here to mix in politics, and so long as it remained a purely political problem, we had no desire to say anything on one side or the other.  But the appeal of the Koreans has been met in such a way that it has been taken out of the realm of mere politics and has become a question of humanity.  When it comes to weakness and helplessness being pitted against inhumanity, there can be no such