ALLEGED MASSACRES.
KOREANS BURNEp ALIVE. JAPANESE IMPRISON 15,000. A. and N.Z. WASHINGTON. Nov. 23. A protest has been filed with Mr. C. E. Hughes, Secretary of State, by "The Friends of Korea" in the United States against what, the society asserts was the massacre of 500 Koreans, and the imprisonment of 15,000 others during the recent earthquake and lire in Japan. The president of the society, Dr. Floyd Torakins, declared he was an eye-witness. Captain Hedstrmi, assistant-dock superintendent at Yokohama, and an American citizen, said ho 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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New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18566, 26 November 1923, Page 9
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108ALLEGED MASSACRES. New Zealand Herald, Volume LX, Issue 18566, 26 November 1923, Page 9
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