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AND THE

CENTURIES OF PERSECUTION: TORTURE COULD NOT · SHAKE FAITH OF THESE JAPANESE CHRISTIANS

THEY DEFIED THE

KEMPEITAI

BY A SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT

THROUGH 300 years of Other tortures were invented in church in Nagasaki "for the sake of Japanese feudalism and an effort to extract confessions of foreign residents." Construction of militarism, sometimes in Christianity-cars and noses sliced this church was finished in February, face of physical torture, the off, crucifixion on the Cross or death 1005. people of Kurojima, a small Island miles off the coast of Kyushu, have held to their

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Prime Intention of the fathers and deaths at the warlord's hands, and find if any remained of the Christians About 2,000 Japanese died cruel other priests who joined them was to then those who still refused to re-

which historians said had once been nounce their faith rallied under the zealous. in Japan. They did not Icadership handsome, talented hope in vain. A month after Shiro Masuda-a youth of 16-and opened the church, 15 Kurojima fought a desperate battle against

(Continued on Paze 3) the warlord's soldiers at

at Arima, near 38,000 Kurojima has a coastline of only Nagasaki. For two months eight miles, but 07 percent of its Arima, fought off the besieging army, Christian zealots, barricaded in Fort 2,300 inhabitants are Christians. They ww numbered '124,000. The battle i

constantly reinforced, even.

And it is only 20 miles from alom bombed Nagasaki, which is the prin- cipal city in Kyushu, ·

the

have been for centuries.

Impresses First thing that visitor to Kurojima is the magnis cent brick church on top of the Island's highest hillock. If you visit the Island on a Sunday you will hear, from the ferry whart, the sonorous echoes of Christian hymns Bung Latin.

Peeping through the Gothic win dows of the church you will see hun dreds of Christian Japanese sitting, Japanese fashion, before the altar, In the dim light you will see the white vells of the girls calmly swing- ing as they bow before the figure of Christ.

Number 2,000,000

CHRISTIANS in Japan are ex- pected soon to number 2,000,000 most of them, however, converts since the war's end.

and'

A

ended when Masuda led his men in suicidal attack in which 3,000 of the enemy were killed and 9,000 But Masuda's losses were disastrous Twenty-eight thousand killed. The remaining 10,000 were captured and the battle was over. That

were

Japan's rulers decided, was the end of Christianity In Japan. But they were wrong. That day in 1637 marked the birth of the Christian colony on Kurojima.

Broke Through

IN the confusion of the battle at

Arima about 200 Christiana managed to break through the enemy lines. Two -days Inter, battered, hungry, they reached Kurofima, four miles off shore, on rafts.

But the trials of the Faithful were

ended, no means

Suspicious

173

HOTEL

RULES

The Widow Spencer's £500.000 Memories

AT MICHAEL HOUSE, Baker-

London street, W.,

Str Simon Marka fron of the founder of the Marks and Spencer "Penny Bazaar") recently made his yearly re port to shareholders....Total profit for the Ucar is *£3,209,672:

MRS SPENCER?" echo-

By James Bartlett

door.

a

shopping centres of the North. room by the brown-plush covered She said: "I can't tell you table. On the walls are pictures of anything. In any case, I'm not regimental uniforms. There is going to. But come back after gleaming brass warming pan by the Junch if you like...."

Over the roll-top desk is a large, framed scple portrait of her husband Tom Spencer. A glass sideboard re- and bushes that hide it from the flects the garden's lawn and the firs Jano.

"I'm tired of seeing

SOAP AND COMBS The argument against chain

Med the old Yorkshire- stores these days is that

see

-

are

today! They're much more forward

But the Kurojima islanders-the by

man at the corner of they tako trade away from the

greenery" island is called by the Japanese government troops frequently visited the lane, three miles from local small shopkeepers and in- sald Mrs Spencer, when I went to "Kirishitonjima"Christian Island" the island from the mainlund in an

"You'll find vest the profits somewhere else. sto her. "Just beyond those trees is have been Christians since 1540, effort to catch the Christians at Middlesbrough.

a. house. I only see it at Christmas when the Spanish missionary Fran- prayer. But

But when Michael Marks they

never caught her down there in the house Neither did they and the with the three chimneys, New went to England from Poland when the trees are bare."

She rubbed her hand, to ease. Its cisco Xavier brought Christianity to them. Japan. And in the intervening cen- vestments of the church."

Grove'a, the name but you in 1884 and hired a stall to sell rheumatism, stared quizzically at faith turies they have held to the

The altar pieces were there, right won't

it on the

and me and said: "It's 42 years since Mr gate. soap, sponges, rushes even under pain of torture death.

before the eyes of the searchers yet They've just been burning the combs in Leeds Market Hall, Spencer died and here I still arm. I he had no idea that some day suppose there's some purpose in it When Xavier visited Japan, the cunningly concealed.

apmewhere. The Christians had Installed minta-paint off." generalissimo of Japan's war lords,

I passed the little church there would be more than 6,000

total. In those 42 years, a ecore of penny Nobunaga Oda, warmly welcomed ture Buddhist altars in their homes.

bazaars has grown into 230 hirn-but beneath his welcome was a But la a false bottom of the altar school where Captain Cook shareholders drawing a selfish intent to use the

branches; Marks and Spencer's growing each kept a portrait of the Virgin. found geography a little easier yearly dividend of 60 per cent.

ing Like the buddhists, they carried with because his teacher had not on the outcome of his enter freehold and leasehold property to Christian community to clip

worth nearly £8,000,000), 2 wings of the Buddhists centred at them in the fields wooden statuettes heard of Australia, walked un- prise. Kyoto. They were becoming too of Buddha. But so small as to der the arched trees past the The slight, sensitive salesman

seen only on the closest of

scution

FEELS THE COAL powerful for him to control.

garland of thorns around detached houses of prosperous, worked hard, selling his goods on

She smiled quickly, crowsteet There was nothing but sincerity, there was

hired stalls and barrows in showing round her eyes, then asked the Buddha's head. The Kurojima doctors, rotired grocers. however, in the Japanese common

The mald took my card and a Northern. towns under the me. if I had any children. Sho said: people'sance of the Christian Islanders, also bought Day, Porcelain

statuettes of Buddha from China, be slightly built old lady in aslogan: "The price is one "I like children. I'm very fond of religion.

of the intangible

Buddhist cause some of thein held, like the Sanskrit prayers of their

Christian statues of the Virgin Mary, babes in brown housecoat came to the penny." masters, they found the prayers easy to understand, the cere. their arms. Also, the islanders re-door, took off gold-rimmed spec. It was there that Tom Spen- said: "I'm Mrs cer took a liking to him. And Impressively

Yes--my husband Michael Marks got on well, too,

Michael Marks....

sales manager of a textile firm THROUGH THE YEARS in Leeds.

She could hardly believe 1 They agreed to go into partnership had come 240 miles from Lon- and in 1804 with £400 of Michael's

and £300 of Tom's, the Arm of of coni a month. "I suppose I can't

to have more if it's not there-but don to the village of Marton, Marks and Spencer was formed

acquire store sites in Northern in- almost have to count the pieces." Yorks, just to see her.

She said: "It's no use if Tdustrial towns and spread the pennyword for old people

-She says:- "You know, it's very·

to manage say you're not disturbing me, bazaar idea.

especially when we can't get out. ef Christians whose every Christian because you are. I've got a lot HARD FOR OLD PEOPLE And, of course, when you've been move was made by stealth.

used to a good table, it's very hard their of little things to do about the hundred years after Two

They were rich men in alx years to get used to the food we have colony was founded their dream came house.. See Sir Simon. He's a Reluctantly, like any Yorkshireman now." truc.

The woman whose name stand's In the middle of the 19th Century, nice man-he was a nice little going to Lancashire, Tom and Agnes

Spencer moved

their home from out in gold or silver letters from the boy, too."

But she was thinking back Lords to Manchester, where Michael fronts of more than 200 stores, said: and Hannah Marks lived over the "No hawkers come out here, you the visits of foreign through her 88 years from the arm's first warehouse. by warships, signed a temporary trade loneliness of Marton to the full,

In 1907, Michael Marks died, leav

and

as,

were able

to explain to them Christian burial services, thus avold" | started the business with Mr with this hut hans farhais

the ported each death among them as a tacles solemn; The drowning while fiching, held secret Spencer. virtuous and erudite.

the mysteries- chemistry, sciences until then un- known in Japan.

of astronomy and

Forty years after Xavier and his missionaries arrrived there were 260 Christian churches and 300 foreign priests in Japan. The followers of Christianity at that time included many daimyos (lords) and samurals (warriors). There were about 300,000 followers in all,

ing the Buddhist cremation.

200 Years After

or

CO, for 200 years more, the Kurojima islanders remained the.

only Christians in Japan. For all that time they prayed for the day when they might openly worship faithful through 10 or 12

generations

the peak of Christianity's deve- lopment in Japan one-eyed Masa- mune Date, Christian daimyo, sent a Christian goodwill mission of 75 samurals to the. Vatican via Mexico and Spain. The delegation was rec-

in 1850, Iyeshige, the 14th Tokugawa power already ceived with great ceremony by King Philip III at Madrid on June 30, 1815,

and by Paul October 28 of the same year.

generalissimo, his weakened

In the Vatican on pact with many Western Powers, in-exclting Victorian days when ing his son Simon to carry on the cluding Russia, France, America, young. Mrs Agnes Spencer and business. Tom Spencer had died Great Britain and Holland.

Hannah Marks eighteen months before. French Two

Mrs Spencer, in a black ankle- priests, Fathers young

given watched their husbands bring leng dress with perping white Brugiere and Imbert,

something new into the gas-lit frilled collar, sat in the large living permission by Iyeshige to build

These men were the first Japanese to visit the West. But while they were still there the Japanese Govern- ment suddenly banned Christianity in their homeland.

Outlawed

r

NENERAL Hideyoshl, who JUC-

creded Nobunago, and who, like Nobunaga, had first welcomed the Christian priests, outlawed them and

A

were

Mrs

BY THE WAY by Beachcomber

them. But how different they

than they used to be. You have to keep your wits about you to keep up with them."

She gets up at half-past seven. normally finishes breakfast soon after- eight,

then potters about the house busily keeping everything spotless.

She feels the cold, gets three cwt.

know. It's such a pity.. We don't. get any fah."

Sir Simon Marks states: "All the

material: requirements of our cir- 'culation are short in supply, and heavy in demand. The nation is hungry for them....

"I

HAPPY MEMORY

remember going to London with

The last time Max Spencer wit into a Marks and Spencer, store all PLEA for the "Interna- moment. “Les Chasseurs Alpius ar schedule

negotiation, was in 1029. "I used to go to of mutual rivent, arrivent."

It Was where infringement would result, the shareholders' meetings." With tionalisation of Simplified at the maneuvres. of

I per se, in a contravention of the nearly 140,000 shares-having a mar- 1938 all their works throughout Japan, Spelling makes one wonder last saw them, and last saw the provisional agreement to proceed ket value of half a million pounds

His reason: a Dutch 802. captain whether the English would have terrible glacier of the Melle, and without prejudice to any previoN OF

---she is ninth largest shareholder. told him the priests were soldiers in to pronounce Brno in the Czech lingered in happy Bourg d'Oisans, subsequent renewal of the conditions

disguise, plotting to seize Japan.

0 The whistling ceased, and there obtaining at the time. Previously, Hideyoshi's attitude to fashion, or whether the Czechs were no Chasseurs Alpins, but

the up my husband to see the Jubilee. It. I plication.

was very colourful. We had a win- Christianity had already cooled be would have to pronounce it in went about my business exhilarated,

dow near St Paul's." That

Hat was in cause a young Japanese Christian girl the Engish fashion.

and humming the marching song all In passing

1887, shortly before hor... husband refused his advances.

came to know the little stallholder Hideyoshi's ban was put ruthlessly

A third possibility is that 'un

WO pleces of news from the from Poland, International Into force. The missionaries

TWO Council of Neo-

scientists:

Mrs Spencer stopped talking of the ordered out of Japan, converts were Phonetics would make a compromise forced

post: She said: "Your reader's won't to

and that something . like Bruincoch

four-way registration 1 roshima and Nagasaki may look faith, the renounce

The successful experiment at be interested. We don't want to churches were destroyed,

would emerge. Anyhow, before we But still

back. Keep looking

for- Internationalise spelling must people clung to Christianity; nationalise It. Nd Aye hond the Secret masses were Held, outlawed keapz fein tour, high riffoarmurz: priests were sheltered In Japanese

Back to 1938-

had

were

we

day.

Cocklecarrot on

Itt

5 four-way registration Illegal have shifted the earth's axis, and the hall, as the shoole hands

Asked to give a ruling Mr Justice wrecked our weather for some Cockiccarrot said: "That which is millions of years. prescribed by specification in so far

In

she asked: “Are you soaring-are you

homes.

ambitious? I I said no, not particular- Enraged, Hideyoshi, invented

as it applies or does not apply to fadio-active particles are still ly, I've got a contented mind. cruel tortures for the Christians.

the usual mode of registration for swirling round the world, with; She said: "Well, what else can you

limited

want really? So and I was back under the its application to a contract of plan to shift the earth's axle back enough to be comfortable. But mind long as you've dered, under pain of death, to walk Lautaret, watching the Chasseurs ceptance may be said to cover the the other way by further massacres you whatever a man across a huge bronze portrait of Alpins swing by; those amall. dark, bona fide interpretation of respons and to counter the errant particles needs a good wife,"

does..itho Christ. Mest refused, and were ba- men who march as though they were siblilties when licences of right are by loosing something even beastller headed pn' the spot,

about to break into a charge at any included for endorsement in any into the upper alt?

Then she went back. to Tom Spencer's picture,

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