IN TIME OF STRESS

Evening Post, Volume CVI, Issue 128, 27 November 1923, Page 7

IN TIME OF STRESS

THE KOREAN MASSACRES

CURIOUS EXCUSES OFFERED.

(UNITED PRESS ASSOCIATION.-COPIBIGHT.>

(Received 27th November, 9.30 a.m.) SYDNEY, This Day. Ihe "Sydney Morning Herald's" commiEsoner in Japan, giving further details ot 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 protection was poison to be thrown into wells, tied two of them to a telegraph pole, and stabbed them to death. The woman was also taken away and murdered. Owing to this action of the police, the voluntary guards in the district concluded that it was quite in order for them to kill Koreans whenever they found them. Similar instances occurred in other districts. One of the perpetrators, on trial, voiced a widely-urged excuse for the outrages He said tilings were in disorder at the time, and he believed he was doing hi« 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.