THE BEEj OMAHA, MONDAY. APRIL 5, 1920.
JAPAN AT LOSS
TO UNDERSTAND
KOREANS' STAND
Mikado Stands Completely
Bewildered and Just a
Little Chastened at At
titude of People.
(Flnt of ft acrlo ef four artlclaa by
Falr Hunt deallnr with Korean condi
tion!.)
By FRAZIER HUNT.
Chirac Trlbnne-Omahn Be Forlca
Mrvlc.
Seoul, April 5. More Korean in
dependence demonstrations, more
Japanese repression, more suppres
sion, more , cruelties, more promises
tnese are tne signs tor tue tuture
of Japan in Korea. The revolution
ary movement lives here today and
no power of Japanese bayonets or
no amount of Japanese promises can
kill it.
Before the thrillincr miracle of
reawakened, revivified people Japan
stands completely bewildered and
1 just a little bit chastened. It doesn't
know what to make of the sudden
rising up of a crushed, broken, hope
less race, just as it doesn't know
what to make of a world that is no
longer under the spell of the Ger
many military might-makes-rignt
idea that it believed in and dreamed
of conquesing the east with. One
can almost waste a little pity on
Japan here in Korea even at the
, same moment that you are swept
into astorm of anger at the stupid
ity and cruelty of Japan's past hisf
tory in this heart-broken peninsula
because Japan s position is an lm
possible one. It is a situation that
has no answer and offers no solu
tion for Japan except the giving of
full independence to a people who
are bv no means ready tor it and
it has no more intention of doing
this than it has of splitting up its
own island empire.
No Believer in Fair Play.
By immediate and dramatic ' re
forms and generous gifts of scmi
independence it might sidetrack this
Korean independence revolution, but
, one is wasting time even to think
about this because present day
. Japan doesn't talk this language of
democracy and international justice
and fair play. Japan's promised re
forms are not even keeping pace
with the growth of the revolution
ary movement. Instead of checking
it with her reforms and promises,
it isn't even keeping up with it This
determination to be free from Japan
is sinking itself deeper and deeper
into the hearts of all of the 17,000.
000 of Korea's people. Every day
the solution is becoming more dif
ficult and more impossible. The
best that Japan can hope for is such
a victory as the English have had in
India and Egypt.
All in all Japan has made a pitiful
mess of her chances in Korea. She
faces today a race of people who
are apparently in the revolutionary
business for keeps. She has changed
front, drawn the teeth of her old
policy of military colonization with
bayonets and banks and railroads
and traders and land grabbers all
mixed up together but It hasljcen
too' late. She has discovered that
you cannot harinner the swords into
welcome plow shares- after once the
sword has been stained with blood.
With the coming of spring pos
sibly even before this article is read
in America new demands for inde-
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against Japanese rule will in all prob
ability he made. They will be peace
ful demonstrations consisting proba
bly of parades and shouts for Kore
an independence, but they will be put
down with force because it is impos
sible for the Japanese military mind
to understand any other power but
that of force. And the more force
used, the deeper the determination.
In every way it is a hopeless and
thankless job that Japan has here.
Korea has felt the magic wind of
"self determination of peoples" that
has been blowing over the world.
The same spirit that has swept
through Poland, Finland, Czecho
slovakia, Ireland, Egypt, India, and
even touched our own smiling Phil
ippines has set fire to men's hearts
here.
But it was far more than any call
for national freedom that sent men
and women down the streets of
Korean cities last March crying
"Mansci" literally translated "10,
000 years," but meaning "liberty for
ever." It was a sudden setting off
of all the piled up hate and cruelty
and petty interference and injustices
of Japanese domination that had
been practiced during the ten years
of Japanese annexation. At the start
the whole movement was almost as
much a demonstration and protest
against economic injustices as
against political injustices. As far
as tne tin educated Korean peasant
and the poor coolies were concerned
the revolution had little of the glori
ous thrill of men fighting for free
dom; rather, it was the protest
against the harshness of Japanese
landlords and the pettiness and stu
pidity and overbearing attitude of
the Japanese gendarmes and sol
diers and civil administrators.
Japan Missed Her Chance.
There seems little question but
that Japan missed once and for all
her chance in Korea. Had she used
the past 10 years wisely and kindly
there would be no independent
movement today in Korea and it is
even possible that had she done the
big dramatic thing after the dem
onstrations came last March that
she might even have stopped the
revolution. But she did neither. As
one American who has lived here
long time put it yesterday, "for
10 years she practiced Turkish cruel
ty with German efficiency and Jap
anese cunning and still expected
Korea to love and trust her."
It is only fair to write that Japan
has done many fine things here. She
has built roads but mostly they are
military roads, she has established
great banks but thev are for the
glory and profit of Japanese bank
ers; she has established schools
where she has insisted that only the
Japanese language be taught. She
has done these things and countless
other things that have helped Korea,
but she has done them all for
Japan and not for Korea. And with
this spirit' dominating here she
failed in her dream of assimilating
the Koreans. She failed to give them
any reason for wanting to become
Xipponized. She tried with bayonets
to make people love her. She has
missed her chance in Korea.
Can she still come back? Can she
ot only checkmate this revolution
ary movement but satisfy it and win
the revolting Koreans In other
words, is the independence move
ment so deep and widespread that
nothing can more than temporarily
check it? This is the real nub of the
Korean situation.
Korea Wants Independence.
For a week I have been going
among Koreans of all classes trying
to find the answer to this question.
believe that .it can be stated in
one sentence: the- Korean people
are really back of this revolution
and they will never be permanently
satisfied with anything short of full
independence.
loday 1 heard the story of a pri
mary school boy sitting up in his
bed at night and in his sleep shout
ing, "Manseil Manseil" His little
heart was so full of this fight for
independence that he dreamed of
it and shouted the magic word in
his sleep. An 8-year-old girl coming
home from school the other after
noon, drew the forbidden Korean
flag on the sidewalk. Three or four
Korean elders cautioned her that if
the police saw her they might arrest
and punish her.
"Why should I care," . she
answered. "I'm helping for inde
pendence." So it goes everywhere over this
reborn land and so it is that
Japan's position is a hopless and
impossible one. . Now that they have
squandered the chances they had to
win Korea peacefully to Japan they
have nothing left to do but crush
the Korean independence movement
with bayonet and the more bayonets
they use, the stronger the movement
becomes.
Japan is finding out what wiser
nations learned a generation ago
military colonization can neither h
peaceful or happy or successful col
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Germans Surrendered
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Chkttfo TriboM Forclm New Sarrtca.
London, April 5. Britain has
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with the surrendered German sub
marines which, after a career of
murder on the high seas, inglorious
ly surrendered to the British fleet
after the armistice. -'
At first there was a good deal
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not much good in the British navy,
which had plenty of submarines of
its own and of a better type. No
body else wanted them particularly
and they were incapable of being
converted to any commercial use.
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Peace Plan Will
Repeal Many Laws
(Con tinned From Firit Face.)
of the need -of a return to a normal
peace basis in congress may prod
thj administration on to prompt ac
tion. Lifting of restrictions on coal
nrices and distribution on April 1,
Ayhich were exercised under the Le
ver food and fuel control act, was a
step in he direction of an adandon
ment of the remaining war regula
tions.' Control over most imports and ex
ports was given up some time ago
with the exception of that over trade
with Russia and a control over Im
ports of dyes and other coal tar
products. It was stated recently in
an official communication to con
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the war trade board section of the
State department that the restric
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congress on the pending dye legislation.
Dispose of Dye Laws.
The republican leaders in the sen
ate are planning to dispose ' of the
dye legislation in the near future.
As soon as the controversy involv
ing the method of providing tuture
protection for the dye industry is
smoothed out and legislation is put
on the statute books it is expected
that the present control of dye im
ports will be lifted.
Problems involving diplomatic re
lations with the soviet government
have delayed the resumption of
tradevwith Russia. The administra
tion is showing no indication of ?iiy
willingness to give official recogni
tion to the soviet government. Din
is expected before long to lift the
ban on trade in accordance With a
aeneral policy to remove war re
strictions. The two-days' debate
scheduled to take place in the house i
ot. t t- j j. : I
on inursaay ana rnaay awing
which the whole question, regard
ing continuance of waV-time restric
tions Will be argued may speed up
action by the president.
Terminate War Laws.
Under the terms of the Porter
resolution the date on which it be
comes effective is made the pivotal
date for the termination of war
laws. The trading with the1 enemy
act, for example, continues in ef
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"until the end of the war." It would
eease to be effective the day the
peace resolution was signed.
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has made it unlawful for any person
in the United States except with the
license of the president to have any
form of business or commercial in
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of an enemy. The act authorizes
the president to place an embargo
upon imports from any other coun
try he may specify.
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cease to be in effect under its own
provisions "when the existing War
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