“The police station was surrounded by a stone wall, with but one gate to the enclosure.  The soldiers permitted those who insisted on following to enter, and, when they had entered, closed the door; then the soldiers deliberately set to work, shooting them down in cold blood.  Only three of the fifty-six escaped death.”

Let me give one other statement by a newspaper man.  I might go on with tale after tale of brutality and fill another volume.  Mr. William R. Giles is a Far Eastern correspondent well known for the sanity of his views and his careful statements of facts.  He represents the Chicago Daily News at Peking.  He visited Korea shortly after the uprising, specially to learn the truth.  He remained there many weeks.  Here is his deliberate verdict: 

“Pekin, June 14th.—­After nearly three months of travelling in Korea, in which time I journeyed from the north to the extreme south, I find that the charges of misgovernment, torture and useless slaughter by the Japanese to be substantially correct.

“In the country districts I heard stories of useless murder and crimes against women.  A number of the latter cases were brought to my notice.  One of the victims was a patient in a missionary hospital.

“In a valley about fifty miles from Fusan, the Japanese soldiery closed up a horseshoe-shaped valley surrounded by high hills, and then shot down the villagers who attempted to escape by climbing the steep slopes.  I was informed that more than 100 persons were killed in this affray.

“In Taku, a large city midway between Seoul and Fusan, hundreds of cases of torture occurred, and many of the victims of ill-treatment were in the hospitals.  In Seoul, the capital, strings of prisoners were seen daily being taken to jails which were already crowded.

“While I was in this city I spent some time in the Severance Hospital as a patient, and saw wounded men taken out by the police, one of them having been beaten to death.  Two days later the hospital repeatedly was entered and the patients catechized, those in charge being unable to prevent it.  Detectives even attempted in the night time secretly to enter my room while I was critically ill.

“In Seoul, Koreans were not allowed to be on the streets after dark and were not allowed to gather in groups larger than three.  All the prisoners were brutally and disgustingly treated.  Innocent persons were being continually arrested, kept in overcrowded prisons a month or more, and then, after being flogged, released without trial.

“Northern Korea suffered the most from the Japanese brutalities.  In the Pyeng-yang and Sensan districts whole villages were destroyed and churches burned, many of which I saw and photographed.

“In Pyeng-yang I interviewed