The deplorable murders of Koreans' by bands of armed Japanese civilians is beginning to bear the evil fruit such dirty deeds have as logical corollaries, and, with the lifting of the ban prohibiting the publication of these disgraceful and wanton killings, the newspapers have been full of gruesome incidents revealing a ferocity on the part of citizens whose peaceful disposition in normal times -could not be questioned that is shocking. The result—a not unnatural one—is that there is considerable un. rest amongst the Koreans in Kobe and Osaka, particularly at the latter place where there are several thousands of Koreans. The police of the commercial capital of the Japanese Empire are very worried and a round-table conference, at which Government officials will explain to representatives of the Korean community the efforts made by the authorities to protect their compatriots during and after the seismic upheavals of last month; is being planed. A movement is.on foot, it is said, among the Koreans to boycott such a conference until the Vigilantes—as the civilians who are known: to have murdered the Koreans were called in the days immediately succeeding the earthquake—have been
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