mass round-up of Christians suspected of subversive activities was carried out on 11 out of 14 districts in Korea at 4 o'clock yesterday morning. The number of various nationalities of those arrested is not. being @isclosed pending the questioning of the arrested suspects.
In.a statement announcing the mass arrests of pastors, missionaries und converts, the Police Bureau of the Government-General alleged that some Christians formed secret socle-ties which were engaged in subvversive activities throughout Korea.
"Moreover, it has been revealed that they committed nefarious crimes uttering terms of disloyally towards the Throne and the Imperial Ancestors, disseminating false rumours regarding military affairs, secking to create anti-government "and antipatriotic sentiment among the people at home."
The authorities denied that they intended to "bring pressure to bear or interfere in propagation of faith for other, religious activities" by the arrests. "We earnestly hope that by urifleation of the ranks of Chris tians some of them who have shown peculiar tendencies will reform and serve the country as faithful believers and real subjects."—Domei.
Singapore base by Britain and the United States on the pretext of strengthening thelt mutual defence in the Pacific area, Such a move on the part of the United States, it was added, might well bring about a complete deterioration of American-Japanese relations.
When Britain and the United States recently agreed on the joint use of naval bases in the Atlantic for mutual "defence purposes, it way stressed, Japan called attention America's "camouflaged neutrality." Political quarters added that Japan tolerated the Anglo-American agreements by viewing it as a measure which the United States adopted out of the necessity of strengthening her national defence. in the face of an overwhelming superiority of the Axis Powers in Europe,
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