EXECUTIONS IN KOREA.

Sun (Christchurch), Volume VII, Issue 2126, 7 December 1920, Page 7

EXECUTIONS IN KOREA.

JAPANESE STATEMENT. MISSIONARIES BLAMEk

By Cable. — Presi A.aeaeiation. — Copyright. (A. & N.Z.) TOKIO, Dec. 5. Major-General Saito, spokesman of the War Office, in a statement regarding the allegations made by the missionaries in Korea, said it was a coincidence that many of the plotters who were executed were Christians, but the plotters in many instances allied themselves with the missions in order to gain the security these afforded. The missionaries accusing Japanese troops of cruelty were themselves the cause of the tragedy. He regretted that the Koreans were not awake to the fact that their real grievance was against these mischief-making missionaries. Japan allowed full religious liberty, but would not allow treason, which threatened to undermine the foundations of the empire.