ALLEGED JAPANESE OUTRAGE.

Auckland Star, Volume XXXVII, Issue 146, 20 June 1906, Page 6

ALLEGED JAPANESE OUTRAGE.

BYBNEY VTCTIMS TAKE ACTION.

So much praise of the courtesy of the Japanese has been published, that the public will read .with some astonishment the account published in this issue of the indignities offered by Japanese soldiers to -Mr. Arthur Raymond Weigall, chief enginter of the Manchu Mining Syndicate, Limited, son of Mr. A. l>. Weigall, headmaitur of the Sydney Grammar School, ilrs. WeigaU I nee Mary iland Barnes, of "Dyraaba. -, ('aeino, Xew South Wales.!, and Mr. W. W. Taylor iaesiatant to Mr. Weigall) in North Korea, during December last. Tlie party wajj travellinu; peaceably through Koreu. a.nd at a township named Reui-Tchieng. were put through a category of questions by some Japanese soldiers. Afu-r using exceedingly insulting language to the party it was allowed to proceed—for two miles only. Then it was stopped again, and insulted again: Mrs. Weigall was brutally struck on the rhast by a soldier; Mr. Weigall was on the verge of being shot; and Mr. Taylor just escaped teing run through the body with a bayonet. After beiiig raareh.-J back to the township, where further inaulta and indignities were heaped upon the unfortunate people, they were told to go. Negotiations in regard to the matter have been commenced betweeu British xiad JapsbH«e Government officials.