Torture And Slay Koreans.

New York Times 100 years ago today, August 5, 1912:
Japanese, Says a Vladivostok Paper, Are Committing Terrible Outrages.
    Seek Hun Kimm, President of the Korean Patriotic Society of New York, received yesterday a copy of the Kuen Up Seen Bo, a Korean newspaper printed in Vladivostok, which contains accounts of happenings in Korea which Mr. Kimm says is proof that Japan is torturing the people she has subjugated. The news, he explained, had been long in reaching the United States, because of the strict censorship in Korea. Koreans, even those of probity, he said, are not allowed to travel from one province to another, and the greatest care is taken to prevent the facts of conditions in that country from becoming known. So the news is carried to Vladivostok by word of mouth or by letters, smuggled out of the country.
    One report says the Japanese established a naval station at Chin Ha Bay, on the southern coast of Korea, and wished to drive out the 600 inhabitants to make room for Japanese settlers. The inhabitants were rounded up and driven away. Some Korean men resented being driven from their homes, and fought their oppressors. This aroused the Japanese to fury, and the police, reinforced by the military police, went to the scene.
    Then followed the practical extermination of the male population. The police promptly opened fire with their rifles and killed without mercy. The women, seeing their fathers, husbands and brothers slain, came rushing to the scene. Their cries further inflamed the Japanese, and they turned their rifles on the women and children and killed many before they fled. It is said that only twenty men were alive after the volleys, and these were taken to prison. How many women and children were killed or wounded is not stated.
    The paper contains an account of the alleged torture of Kim Ga Yong and Ree Ga Darng, charged with being implicated in the plot to assassinate Count Terauchi. Both men, it is charged, had their hands tied behind them, and were then suspended until the tips of their toes just touched the ground. They were beaten and maltreated until they became unconscious, and then carried into narrow cells and placed on beds of thorns to remain until they confessed. They died, it is said, under this treatment.
    Another report comes from Wool San, on the southern coast of Korea. There the principal occupation of the women is clam digging and sea weed gathering. When the Japanese came, the Japanese women sought to drive the native women from the seashore. There were several encounters, but apparently it was not until May that the Japanese began to drive out the natives. There was a bitter encounter between the women of the two countries and the police came and opened fire on the native women. Many were wounded and some were left senseless on the ground.
    "Conditions In Korea are very bad," said Mr. Kimm. "Japan, now posing as a civilized nation, is resorting to the methods of savagery. Through torture she is extorting confessions of things the victims have never done, but which will serve the ends of Japan and further enslave Korea and the Koreans."