Keljo, Mar, 27, Fourteen British and American Protestant women" missionaries throughout Karen Were arrested yesterday morning on a charge of plotting.an antiwar campaign, the Pub-lie Peace Section of the Government General of Chosen, announced ina that these missionaries had attempted to hold antiwar prayer)" meetings throughout churches in" Korea. Simullaneously, thousands of leaflets containing a text prayer "of an extremely improper, anti-nationalist and antlewar character" had been distributed at various churches Korea.
"The authorities do not infand to suppress or Impede lawful preaching. of the faith, but are taking rigorous measures against anti-nationalist manoeuvres hiding behind the fair the announcement The communique charged that several British and American ttssionaries, who were members of the Boord of Elders and" Board Trustees of Christian "Churches In Karen, were "blindly" assuming that the present sacred campaign ju China was an imperialist war of aggression" fand had been "craftily" engaged fomenting anti-nationalist and antly war ideas among "guileless Korean Dellevers" since the outbreak of the China eonttict, 'The arrests' were carried out "for tie maintenance of peace and order" under the prevailing situation, the communique added. It was. understood that the authorities' suspicions were aroused on March 2 when vestigations were begun, culminating the mass arrests yesterday. mor Protest Tokyo, Mar, 27.
Merrill Benninghof, Second of the United States Em-here, today called attention of the Japanese Foreign Office to arrests Of American. Missionaries in sa Karen, "Despatches from Keljo disclosed that either Md or 18 American and} British Protestant missionaries, were arrested in various parts of Kore yesterday.
"Americans arrested included Dr, DS, Low, Mr, E, Otlo de Camp, Miss Alice' Butis and Mr, Herbert Boder, all Presbyterians, Home addrestes of the missionaries were learned immediately, (Police seized records' and letters from the Presbyterian headquarters, Among other charges brought against the missionaries wore specific. com~ plaints that Dr, Low ahd Mr, de Camp attempted' to force Koreans to remove Shinto shrines from their biomes-—United Press, State Department Uninformed Washington, Mor, 27, he State Department' early this morning said that Tt possessed 0 formation regarding reports of arrests of American and British missionaries, including women, in Korea—United Pross, Substitute Fuel for
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