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REIGN OF TERROR IN CHIENTÃO,
WHOLESALE BURNING AND KILLING.
JAPAN BLAMES **MISCHIEF-MAKING
MISSIONARIES:"
The following letter has been forwarded by ita recipient to the Committee of Federated Missions in Japan, which has
THE IMPERIAL WIZARD! WEITE COWLED KNIGHTS OF THE KU KLUX.
WEATHER REPORT.
December 13th, at 11.35-Prosare bas increased slightly from Weihaiwei to Amay, and moderately over south-west China. It has decreased slightly at Cloam,
INTIMATIONS
DIOCESAN BOYS' SCHOOL, HONGKONG.
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The anti-orolone has increased in faize and intensity. It is still central over N. China the east coast of China and over the Nabars. Scheel
Strong monsoon may be expected along A OLD BOYS' ASSOCIATION is being
formed in connection with the above. China, Sen
Hongkong rainfall for the 24 hour master their names and the names of other Old Bors are asked to send to the Head-
NEW YORK The Ka Klar, with its white capped provoking methods of operating is again knights and its mysterious and terror being revived in the Southern States April, After the American Civil War, when the franchise by the Federal Government, the Ku Klux Klan was organised to ensure the Academy of the minority white popula-The forecast for the S4 hours anding at tions in the negro belta.
direct dealings with the Japanese Govery Alaves were freed, and were given the ending at 10a.m. to-day, 000 inch. Total Old Born with addresses.
ment:-
Kanto, via Kainei, Kores, Nov. 13th My Dear On November 2nd, L mailed a registered letter to your address by Japanese poet and a copy of the same by the Chinese post, ett
By, November 20e the situation was one of such terror to the Koreans partly on account of what the Japanese had actually done and partly on account of the reports
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since d'anuary 1st, 106.63 inches against an averags of 65.46 inches
noon to-day in as follows ; -*-*
DISTRICT
In those reconstruction days, if the negroes controlled's State Legislaturs they preferred voting themselves each a jack-knife or a suite plush furniture as actually happened to administering affairs properly. The Ka Ki Hongkong to Gap Rock Klan abolished this by sternly applied punishments to the negroes.
Formosa Channel
FORKCANT. North winds, strong; fair, colder.
(The
No. 1-
The anfranchisement of wometris revidowsh of China betweenƒThe same as
Southern white fears of new attempt the negroes to acquire political mistery by
No. 1.
of, what they purposed doing, that I called/Booding the pall" ith black suffragesto Soathooast of China between The saine 68.
So the Ku Klux Klan is retarning. 10
on the Commander of the forces and saked carlier work. Since the Civil war recon him to grand ma a pampart that we might visit some congregations and, steady
than
ongkong and Lamooks
Hongkong and Hainan
No. L
Koreans. We thought it better to have Methodist clergyman, Colonel WOHINA COAST METEOROLOGICAL
permission to travel from the Commander, se we were almost sure to meet Japanese soldiers. He declined to help us and said thag he could not trust even his own soldiers and would not lake the purposability of suing a Passport or any equivalent.
This showed two things First, that although this is Chiness Cerritory, and we have the proper Passports, the Commander was opposed to us leaving Yongjung and second the class of Japanese soldier, that have been let loose upon a defenseless
A pesar delay pet
struction days the organisation has been insetiva until recently. It
prosent reviver Mormon
mysterious nomencla- Wizard His headquarters at Atlanta, ture of the
he Ku Klux is tide is Imperial Georgia, bear the name of The Aulic. Bach State has its own set of officials, the chief officer being known as the Grand Dragon.
MIDNIGHT-BITEŻ, Z
Imperial Wizard Simmons recently red a proclamation setting forth the purposes of the Ku Klux. They are to inculcate chivalry, to develop character, to protect the home and womanhood, to preserve American ideals, and, last and most important of sil, to main.
The Ku Klux, memb
people my talk with the Commander, a 'ftain' white suprem
Japaness newspaper reporter came in, and
Station,
Vladivostock Nemuro. Hakodate... Köchi
when I was through my interview with native-born Americap is confined to Tokio...
Neither Catholics the Commander, he asked me into his offer nor Jows can join the organisation, although Nagasaki which was in the building. I told him no attacks upon religion have ever been Kagoshima what had happened at Kan Chang Am, as countenanced by the knights
Oshima I wrote you in my last letter. He said he The conferring of the knighthood on Naba had heard it and when I asked member socres rite. the thigakijima him what he thought of such cruelty beceremony takes place at midnight, in replied that he thought the same as I did the open. The knights gather round in a Welhalwel as
The next day I kept an appointment with red headpiece, a white bag over the head
wide circle, :each wearing a
white, coneshap Hankow w Captain Watanabe, the Chief of the Gendarmes. He brought up the matter of and face, with holes for the eyes, and
my information the day before to the white gown to cover the rest
of the body.
Suporter, and raid the reporter had in the centre of the groop is "the fimous promptly told to the officers what I had fiery cross of the Ku Klux This accom said and that they immediately took the panies them wherever they go at night.
atter up and made announcement."
A DREAD WARNING.
REGISTER.
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He also said that my report concerning Nobody outside the organisation knows what the soldiers had done at Kan Chang the number of members. Few of the Aut was the first information they had members themselves are known to the en received. Captain Watanabe, wid, more initi than once, that he was sorry for what had initiated Aden of the Ku Klux was taken place. This gave me the occasion to recently opened at Richmond, Virginia, Fescadores Bak if he could assure me that the like membership. It is understood only about longkong...
and there were ten thousand applicants for Canton would not be repeated in any other Christwe hundred stood the final tests, which day Bock tian village, but he gave no reply. said that he wrdd like to go with me to The Ku Klux knights, in their ghost Wachow
Ho include assurances of implici: obedience.
Macao Kan Chang Am but later in the day sent like regalia, participate in numerous public Hoihow me word that he could not leave Tongjung parades in the south. They ride on a large so two Koreans went with one the motor vehicle, constructed like a tothin, with
Pakhod elder of the village who had lost two sons the Rery cross in front. On the and a brother, and the other a young Chrim the ominous words: add, are. | Tours tian who speaks Japaneseveral yesterday
As the people were, dentitute at the approach of winter, the Missionarios sent,
is
Wero.- hore Cap
'hore" to-day; will be here
by me, materials for clothing and money afraid of the knights. A midnight visit
superstitious negroes are
ro terribly. One old lady had lost her husband, son and from the Ku Klux nephew
suficient to usually besides, har house, outbuildings, food, tuna. U not ne ogru receives, Warning Barigso
and a bad negro good for considerahie Hailo She that almost invariably reduces him to abject Gram and her daughter-in-law had borrowed a submission. It reads: hop and had buried as well as they could Upharsin. Bey
Hene, Mene, Tekel, Labuan the charred remains of the loved ones ns. The dagger is drawn Le Your presence hers blood on your own head. coffin, no funeral A
is mourned! Begone!"-Daily Express,
clothing and crop had been burned.
People like these we helped in a small way that they might face the beginning п long, cold winter. I only stayed with them a few hours but went through the village and heard what the people had to The Church was burned to the ground, but the mud walls of the two school buildings and nine houses were all stand ing in outline a few feet above the ground, increasing in vividness the picture of desolation.
The people were then all gathered toge ther to listen to a defence and fustification of all the crueltics that had been inflicted on the village. After this was over, the soldiers said they must return to Yongjung and asked that two men go with them as prisoners. There seemed to be no young mar to go save the elder's oldest son the next two had been shot. He has not been released yet, and we do not know where he is. Sometimes our friends are supposed to be in prison and we find out later that they have been deported or done to death. The Commander's refusal to help us to with their inhuman methods, to the pisces travel, the follow up visits of the police where we have been these have caused us to halt for a few days and find out what the Churches think about us itinerating
Everything had taken place much as I mentioned in my last letter, eave that the bodies of the thirty-one who were shot wore burned in three different spots a few feet Lapart, And not all in one pile. I tried to comfort and strengthen the people and had worship with them,
This was on the 4th inst. On the fellow
On the file ing day, seventeen soldiers and three police men (one a Korean) visited a village. The terrified people, mostly women and children, saw them coming, and with a feeling of dread and horror, decided to stand their list of 32 places where the Japanese have Under a separate cover I am sending a ground. The
soldiers sent messenger to terrorized the villagers and am mentioning a neighbouring village from where six: the number of deaths and buildings burned people had been shot, thats certain numm each. It is for the Koreans a veritable ber of men, were to come to Kan Chang #reign"of terror.” "
Am immediately. While these men wereHoping that you can place this and the other evidence where it will reach those
tho
on the way the soldiers began Ingin authority.I remain, faithfully yours,
remaining walls of the burns
When the men arrived from the other vil Inge, they were ordered
gather the bodies
of the thirty-one shot a few days before, from the various one place. Sume Saves and bring them lo
already been remored
(Signed)
JAPAN'S JUSTIFICATION.
to the family burying tome distance away. The day was.cold by Major-General Sato, on behalf of 16 ground and were The following statement has been aged and the ground white with snow, so that only thirteen of the charred remsing were War Office, in reply to charger brought in. The remaining timbers in the atrocities in the Chientro district. The brought by missionaries of Japanese destroyed house were gathered together to statement is fasted fextually, a received by serve as fuel, the bodies, were placed on Beuter a Agency in Tokyo- top of these and then more wood heaped Speedy executions and burning of ever the bodies and the whole set on frs honses have been rendered necessary, be The shivering and poorly dad mourners cause the Chinese have expressed anxiety witnessed with sching bearts the reburning
of their loved once. To the Korean mind that the Japanese shall accomplish their this was moet repulsive and distressing, for task of stamping out outlawry and Korean as a people, they greatly reverence their plots sa speedily as possible and then with dead and have a tender, affection for the
departed. VEE MOR for the in
The very nature of the task requirem
The widows were then called into a room wither a so deliberate procedure or quick one by one and put through a rigid daah, smashing the centres of trouble, re- and sons. Questions were also sakod about persons probably suffer, examination regarding their dead husbandsgardless of the fact that some innocent
6 13 14 the visits of the Missionaries, what they Is is a coincidence that many of the 4 436 4/1 had said, how they had helped the people, plotters who have been executed were Chirie 662 17 otc. They were made to promise that the tians, but the plotters in many cases ally 5-17 3 bodies which had not been reburned should themselves with the Missions for the sake 372 120 never bo zapovered and placed in a casket of the security thus afforded. Fri. 17 m 0 10 6.8 m 8228 2the present fire died out (which was not the Japanese troops of cruelty are them socording to Korean custom and that when The misionarios who pre now scenging until the next evening) the rhes should be seives the cause of the tragedy. I regret all buried and after anco-covered, not on that Koreana are not alive to the fact that covered. All the answers were written their real grievance is against these down and each woman was taked to put chiol-making misalongries. Japan allows hey scal to these that her answers were full religious liberty, but cannot allow true and that she would obey
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T. F. CLAXTON, Director:
HONGKONG METEOBULOGIOAD
BEGISTER
Hongkong Observatory, December 13th
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TUESDAY, JANUARY 18mm, 1930.
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