Tokyo, Apr. 7.
Police at Seoul to-day were examining seventeen leaders of a religious cult, "Chosen Hakuhakukyo", which allegedly is responsible for the slaying of an estimated 500 persons and the enslavement of their beautiful daughters for immoral purposes dur-Ing the past six years, It was reported here to-day. The bodies of 140 vic-to, tims of the cult were said to have been recovered.
Leaders of the cult were' reported to have influenced farmers to sell their Jands in the hope of gaining religious happiness, then to have stolen' the money, murdered the-men and undesirable women and enslaved their ters. Sixty bodies were said to have been discovered in a single grave and some of the victims apparently had been buried alive.
The leader of the cult, Kin Ryukai, 4s at present @ fugitive from justice and it was believed he possibly had committed. suleide—United Press,
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