By Tuesday the city was full of tales of the doings of the soldiers; having tasted blood, the troops were warming to their work, “The soldiers have been chasing people to-day like they were hunters after wild beasts,” wrote one foreign spectator.  “Outrages have been very numerous.”  Still, despite the troops, the people held two or three patriotic meetings.

Let me tell the tale of Tuesday and Wednesday from two statements made by Dr. Moffett.  These statements were made at the time to the officials in Pyeng-yang and in Seoul: 

“On Tuesday, March 4th, I, in company with Mr. Yamada, Inspector of Schools, went into the midst of the crowds of Koreans on the college grounds, and thence went through the streets to the city.

“We saw thousands of Koreans on the streets, the shops all closed, and Japanese soldiers here and there....

“As we came back and near a police station, soldiers made a dash at some fifteen or more people in the middle of the street, and three of the soldiers dashed at some five or six men standing quietly at the side, under the eaves of the shops, hitting them with their guns.  One tall young man in a very clean white coat dodged the thrust of the gun coming about five feet under the eaves when an officer thrust his sword into his back, just under the shoulder blades.  The man was not more than ten feet from us in front....

“Mr. Yamada was most indignant and said, ’I shall tell Governor Kudo just what I have seen and tell him in detail.’

“I asked him if he had noticed that the man was quietly standing at the side of the road, and had given no occasion for attack.  He said, ‘Yes.’

“Just after that we saw thirty-four young girls and women marched along by some six or eight policemen and soldiers, the girls ahead not being more than twelve or thirteen years of age.

“Just outside the West Gate Mr. Yamada and I separated and I went towards home.  As I arrived near my own compound, I saw a number of soldiers rush into the gate of the Theological Seminary professor’s cottage, and saw them grab out a man, beat and kick him and lead him off.  Others began clubbing a youth behind the gate and then led him out, tied him tightly and beat and kicked him.

“Then there came out three others, two youths and one man, dragged by soldiers, and then tied with rope, their hands tied behind them.

“Thinking one was my secretary, who lived in the gate house, where the men had been beaten, I moved to the junction of the road to make sure, but I recognized none of the four.  When they came to the junction of the road and some of the soldiers were within ten or twelve feet of me, they all stopped, tied the ropes tighter, and then with four men tied and helpless, these twenty or more soldiers, in charge of an officer, struck the men with their fists in the face and back, hit them on the head and face with a piece of board, kicked them on the legs and back, doing these things repeatedly.  The officer in a rage raised his sword over his head as he stood before a boy, and both I and the boy thought that he was to be cleft in two.  The cry of terror and anguish he raised was most piercing.  Then, kicking and beating these men, they led them off.