KOREANS REVOLT
Japanese Air Base • Damaged (Received July 18, 7.30 p.m.) WASHINGTON, July 18. Koreans in an organized revolt heavily damaged a Japanese air base on Quelpart Island, off south Korea. News of the revolt has just reached the Korean national front federation in Washington. Korean workers destroyed a wireless station, set lire to four underground hangars, destroyed sixty-nine planes and two petrol tanks, and killed 1-12 pilots an'd mechanics, and wounded 200 others. Tlie Japanese later killed all the 400 Koreans who survived the lighting witli Japanese troops. This revolt and similar uprisings which still continue have caused terrible Japanese reprisals. They have killed or imprisoned 125,000 Koreans, and put 750,000 in labour battalions.
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Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 20 July 1942, Page 5
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115KOREANS REVOLT Dominion, Volume 35, Issue 250, 20 July 1942, Page 5
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