There have been no resident missionaries working amongst the Koreans in that part of Manchuria, though missionaries have visited the Christians at intervals @uring the past few years Mis sionaries can scarcely be alleged to have been the cause of this particular tragedy.
The Japanese military have succeeded in making many widows and orphans, in the midst of a defenceless, law-abiding, industrious population. There is no allegation that any Japanese has suffered injury to life, limb, or property, in the parts of the -Fengtien province in question. The Japanese troops have also created wholesale conditions of famine anid! destitution, just at the beginning of the severe Manchurian winter.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.