MURDERS OF KOREANS
PRESS COMMISSIONER’S REPORT PERPETRATORS’ EXCUSES Sydney, November 27. The “Sydney Morning Herald’s” commissioner in Japan, giving further details of the murders of Koreans, quotes one instance in which four people. including a woman, applied to the police for protection. A policeman, thinking that medicine in their possession was poison, to be thrown into wells, tied two of them to a telegraph pole and stabbed them to death, rhe woman was also taken away and murdered. Owing to this action of the police, the voluntary guard's in the district concluded that it was quite in order for them to kill Koreans whenever they found them. Similar instance occurred in other districts. One of the peipetrators. on trial, voiced a widelyurged excuse for the outrages. He said things were in disorder at the time and lie believed ho was doing his share towards saving the nation. The commissioner adds that the crimes are an unpleasant record, which influential Japanese people would be glad to have wiped from,the national slate. - Press Assn.
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Dominion, Volume 18, Issue 54, 28 November 1923, Page 7
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