Word: korean
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...Japanese were celebrating the Emperor's birthday in Hongkew Park. No foreigners except a few newsmen and military attaches were invited. The Japanese community, including Koreans, were the guests. Japanese marines, gendarmes guarded all entrances and gates to the park, kept a close watch. Occasionally they frisked a man. Unfrisked was a Korean patriot who came in carrying what looked like a Japanese thermos bottle slung from his shoulder. (Thermos bottles and canteens are standard equipment for Japanese and subjects on holiday...
...Korean eased up thru the crowd, stepped out in front, tossed his "thermos" bottle on to the platform, turned to run. BANG! Several on the platform slumped to the floor. Stunned, the crowd held back a second, and then like a wave, rushed in on the Korean, began tearing him to pieces...
...Korean was rescued from the mob by quick work of police and marines, rushed off to Naval Landing Headquarters...
...Chosen (Korea) signed away the mineral rights to 600 square miles of the Uhn San district of his sparse North Peng-Yang Province to a brilliant, Columbia City, Ind. promoter named Leigh S. J. Hunt. Three months later Li-Hsi was imprisoned, his wife assassinated by a Japanese-Korean junta. But by 1897 he was back, despotic as ever, under the advanced title of Emperor...
...Christian should bow at a Shinto shrine. Emphatically answering no, it saluted Dr. Charles Darby Fulton, affable, Japanese-speaking secretary of the Southern Presbyterian Board of Foreign Missions, who ordered schools in his jurisdiction in Korea closed-in defiance of the Japanese Government-wherever there were nearby shrines. Korean Presbyterian churches, which are self-governing, may well follow Secretary Fulton's example if the Government tries to force their leaders to visit shrines...