ABSTRACT
WHAT has been set forth in the preceding chapter relates largely to methods pursued by the Japanese in cities under the observation of foreigners. In country districts, where there were no foreigners to chronicle the events, villages were wiped out and wholesale massacres took place. What little observations made by foreigners in the re* mote districts were a small percentage of the burnings and massacres which took place all over Korea. In a signed statement forwarded to the Federal Council of the Churches of Christ in America, an American resident describes a massacre in northern Korea, at Maungsan, as follows:
During the first part of March, after the people at this place had shouted for independence, fifty-six people were asked by the gendarmes to come to the gendarme station, which they did When they were all inside the gendarmerie compound, the gates were closed, gendarmes climbed up on the wall and shot all the people down. Then they went in among them and bayoneted all who still lived. Of the fifty-six, fifty-three were killed, and three were able later to crawl out of the heap of dead Whether they lived or not is not known.1
