KOREAN UNREST.

Press, Volume LX, Issue 18014, 5 March 1924, Page 9

KOREAN UNREST.

NERVOUSNESS IN JAPAN

BLOOD-OATH OF REVENGE

(BT CABLE—P9RSS ASSOCIATION" COTTRIGHT.) (nEUTEH's TELEQRAKS.)

TOKYO, March 3

1 1.0 Japanese are growing nervous regarding the Korenn situation. Heports indieato increasing hostility on the part ot the populace, following; on the.' ma&sacro of Koreans, during the Japanese earthquake. The Koreans h.'.vo takeh a blood-oath to kill a •Japanese for evcrv Korean slain.

The unrest in Korea is growing in keeping with the activities of Koreans resident in Manc-'huria. l'lots and raids nre increasing. I ho rerent series cf arrests of Japanese in Vladivostok has been traced to accusations made by Korean informers in the employ cf the Russians.

fho open, aggressiveness of the Chinese and the possible rapprochement with the Soviet have resulted in it request from the Korean mititarj commandant for tho reinforcement of the Korean garrison witli from two to iivo divisions.

These developments are also believed to have actuated the Japanese in their decision not to withdraw the military guards from the South Manchtirian raihvav.

A delayed censored mail from Siberia reports the Russian intention to drive tlio Japanese* out of Vladivostok. The Chinese agitation is now centring on Mukden, where Chang-Tso-Lin, the erstwhile friend of Japan, is supreme.