DIABOLICAL MURDERS
BIG GANG IN KOREA TRAFFICKING IN GIRLS Press Association —By Telegraph—Copyright SEOUL (Korea), April 9. A diabolical murder gang has been unmasked as a result of the discovery of the bodies) of 157 young girls, strangled or buried alive, after being outraged. Sixty bodies were recovered from a single grave in the mountains. It is stated that the gang, which is pseudo-religious, consisted mostly of criminals, of whom 117 have been arrested. Other activities of the gang included the inducing of ignorant peasant farmers to sell their lands, as a means to achieving religious happiness, after which the men were robbed and murdered and their daughters and wives sold to white slave It is estimated that there have been 500 victims during the last five years.
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Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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128DIABOLICAL MURDERS Evening Star, Issue 22620, 12 April 1937, Page 9
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