To the Editor of the "Nonru-Cuina Daty News." §1n,—The "Sinwanpao"" published w letter on the Buwoghar sunt atom air. XY. this morning ailing attention to the tuck that the skin ig mot yet open and extravagance and care Jessness" is responsible for hat the public may ye enlighten ed ae to the true facts or the situation, will you kindly permit' mo. to "give them through your columns the following szorina: tion Twas appointed Director of the Ming during the summer of 1921 (loth year of the Republic). Previous to my appointment a Joan had cen concluded for. £82,500, C00, but when interest and discount hae been deducted the Mint was credited with $1,990,- 760. On September 9 of that your I submitted a budget to the Ministry of Finance, the Bureau of Currency andthe Chinese Banking Group in which attention waa called to the fact thas, the above amount would be in-
'Therefore, let it be' resolved: at the. Delegate Assembly of the: Korean National Association held this day, January M4, 1994, at the City of Honolulit, Ukat the President of the Association representing 8,000 Koreans residing in this. Territory of Hawaii, be authorized to send to the Japan-ea. government, and to Japanese and Chinese "newspapers for Publication, a statement, embodying the followed principles which iwo consider just and fair condi-tigris upon which the, ''apology"" will be known to have been sincere.
1. A thorough investigation should to started at ango by joint Committee composed of Korean, Japanese and American commiticemon,—n by both Jcountries. (Our information gives the number of the victims far above 4,000 while the Japanes reports vary between £00 and 700. Tapan owes it to herself, to Korea and to the world at large' to ascertain the exact number and make it public. When our people at home organized an investigation party, Japanese adequate for the purposes of the lies ordered them' to dissolve Mint, conclusions wore it, Our people are entitled to find out for themselves how mam reached on the following figures: Jof their countrymen were kill Land for Mint $207,000.14 2. All the Koreans who ara Building '635,000.00 Machi 2,046, 704.00 still imprisoned without w just cause should be released ut once Lighting, gas, piping, fand all due reparations be made eating 240,000.00, for the damage sustained through imprisonment Excavation work 90,000.00 Bunding of creek 80,000.00 All the perpetrators of the crime, including the governmen Enclosure and roads 70,000.00 officials who gave out the order Furniture for shops that the Koreans in Japan and. offices 10,000.00 killed at, sight, should be tried Transporting and in-and punished according to the stalling machinery 100,000.00 Bridge across Soochow This must be done without delay in order to satisfy the demands of justice and to guarantee Sundries and cou. the safety of the Korean residents tingencios in Japs Director's office and 4. An indemnity should be staff for 20 months made to the families and dopend-Tt "must be noted that the ents of those killed. various, estimates for land, build: "5° 3 sods, cine byopeind ET hat were barbarous side pale cie ced '$4,000,000 so that the Mint, could be' operated: without, impediments or diffcultics. While I was. in charge of the Mint the political situation in' Poking was suck that Ministers and Directors eneral of the Curtoney Bureat were constantly changing arid nothing could be dono. Six weeks before I was dismissed all the machinery arrived and and week after my dismissal the buildings wore completed. The Chinese Banking Group had the power to supervise disbursements! under the original loan and tha appointment of an auditor to the int, who during my tenure countersigned cheque From the above it will be seen that during my tenure in this office, everything was done ta rctliaty "the opening of ths the oot of "construction an int, "Te ig not. tha machinery was under-estimated, and that' my efforts to place the finances of this project sound basis were unavailing.
Thanking you for your courtesy, Tam, ate, 'To the end' that justice may be complete, Korea should be immediately' restored to its owners, the Koreans, and all the Tapanese military and civil forces that are now in occupation of the peninsula, promptly withdrawn.
If Japan really desires, to "bury the pest" a8 expressed in the letter above referred to, led her mako amends by ascertaining lby frank, open investigation the extent of the Wrong, it idemnitying those whoso'sufferin, have "resulted from wanton slaughter and unjustified—im-Drisonment, by punishing the offenders and finally by the great fatonement,—once more re-establishing Korea in the family of free nations.
By direction of the Korean National Association of Hawaii.
Tam, ete, Kao, Honolulu, T. H., Jan. 14, 1924.
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.