IN JAPANESE DISASTER
MANY BURNED ALIVE IN OLD
JUNK
AMERICA^ SOCIETY'S' PROTEST,
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(AfcsTSAtiAN-KEW mt.it-13 bASLri ASSOCIATION.)
(Received 84th November) 9 aihl;)
WASHINGTON) 23rd November,
A protest has been filed with tho Sec* retavjr of State. Mr= 0. E> Hughes, by the JTl'iends of Korea Society in America against what the society asserted was the massacre' of 600 Koreans and the imprisonment of i 6,000 others during the recent earthquake and fire in Japan. Dr, Floyd Tomkins, president, declared that an eye-witness, Captain Hedstrom, asaistant-dock superintendent at Yokohama and an American citizen, saw 250 Koreans bound hand and foot in groups of five, placed in an old junk, covered with oil, and burned alive.
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Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 7
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116IN JAPANESE DISASTER Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 126, 24 November 1923, Page 7
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