"

"If we did the Japanese Government would never let us get back to our
people!"

"Then you may talk through me, if you are willing to do it. I want the
truth to get to the American people!"

"I am not only willing but I am eager to talk!" said this missionary and
wrote out the following story of cruelty against an educated and
cultured Korean, who was the Religious and Educational Director in the
Seoul Y.M.C.A. This story of the latest Japanese barbarisms I pass on to
the reader in this chapter to illustrate another ignominious Hun failure
to understand that the practices of the Dark Ages will not work in this
century:

"On May 26th, 1920, just as Mr. Choi was coming out of his
class room he was met by two detectives, one Korean and one
Japanese, who informed him that he was wanted at the Central
Police Station. Here he was turned over to the Chief of Police
and thrown into a room and kept all day. Mr. Brockman and Cynn
both made several attempts to find out why he was arrested.
Each time they were given an evasive answer. Finally Mr. Cynn
insisted that they tell him the cause of the arrest. It was
finally discovered that he was wanted in Pyengyang on certain
charges. He was to leave Seoul that evening on the 11 p.m.
train. Anxious to see how Mr. Choi was being treated, Mr. Cynn
and several of the Y.M.C.A. men went down to the station. Mr.
Choi with the other six students were standing on the platform.
Apparently Mr. Choi was not bound as is the usual custom.
Closer observation, however, revealed the fact that his hands
were bound with cords, but in his case the ropes were placed on
the inside instead of the outside, of the clothes. He arrived
in Pyengyang the next day, May 27, at 5 p.m. Instead of taking
Mr. Choi first they called in one of the students whose name is
Chai Pony Am. After the usual preliminary questions these
inquisitors of the Dark Ages said, 'We know all about you
everything you have done. There is no use for you to deny
anything. You make a clean confession of everything.' Mr. Choi
replied, 'I have done nothing. If I knew what you wanted, I
would tell you.' More pressure was urged in the way of
bombastic speech. Finally the police said, 'If you won't tell
of your own free will we will make you tell!' Then the
tortures, which the Government published broadcast had been
done away