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The Korean Commission 1010 Peoples Life Building ♦Washington, D. C. For Immediate Release Washington, D. C, May I4. — — s The Korean Commission today transmitted to the French Ambassador, Honorable Paul Claude1, the following petition for submission to the French Government. "The Korean Commission in Washington presents for the attention and action of the Government of France the following:- "On April 30, ^Jr2.$ eleven Koreans rerslding in the * , French Settlement' at Shanghai, China, were, at the request of the Japanese Consulate General, arrested by French police and delivered by the French Consulate General to the Japanese Consulate General, the charge being that these Koreans were in some way connected with the bombing of the Japanese officials on April 29, 1932. "The Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai and the Korean Commission in Washington deny that these Koreans had anything to do with the bombing and explosion. "The Koreans living in the French Settlement at Shanghai are not criminals, nor criminally inclined, and all are law abiding. "The Provisional Government, organized as a result of the famous Passive Resistance of 1919, and believing in the principle of non-violence, has always discouraged any and all violence by the Koreans. "The Japanese have not established any semblance of evidence against these Koreans, but are following their former maneuvers of attempting to make the Koreans the scapegoats, just as they accused an innocent Korean when a Japanese assassinated Premier Hara in 1922j when the earthquake was destroying Tokyo in 1923, the Japanese likewise, without evidence, charged the burning against innocent Koreans and killed many of them in Tokyo and Yokohoma. "There is no more evidence against these Koreans than there is against the Japanese, Chinese, and Americans who were arrested charged with participation in the bombing and explosion, and who have since been released. "in addition, the Korean Commission wishes to state that the Koreans in Korea are suffering enough, under the ruthless misrule of the Japanese - religiously,, morally, politically, socially and economically. Just for one example,?, during the last twenty years, Japan has already deprived the^Koreans of two-thirds of all arable lands in Korea through confiscation and illegal occupancy. These landless Korean farmers have been compelled to seek their livelihood in the neighboring wilds of Northern Manchuria and Siberia. There, Japanese now "have followed and are harassing them. "Now, the Shanghai bomb incident has furnished Japan another pretext to clean up the Koreans in Shanghai. About fifty Japanese military and consular police, with the aid of ■4 'O'^'
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Full text | The Korean Commission 1010 Peoples Life Building ♦Washington, D. C. For Immediate Release Washington, D. C, May I4. — — s The Korean Commission today transmitted to the French Ambassador, Honorable Paul Claude1, the following petition for submission to the French Government. "The Korean Commission in Washington presents for the attention and action of the Government of France the following:- "On April 30, ^Jr2.$ eleven Koreans rerslding in the * , French Settlement' at Shanghai, China, were, at the request of the Japanese Consulate General, arrested by French police and delivered by the French Consulate General to the Japanese Consulate General, the charge being that these Koreans were in some way connected with the bombing of the Japanese officials on April 29, 1932. "The Korean Provisional Government in Shanghai and the Korean Commission in Washington deny that these Koreans had anything to do with the bombing and explosion. "The Koreans living in the French Settlement at Shanghai are not criminals, nor criminally inclined, and all are law abiding. "The Provisional Government, organized as a result of the famous Passive Resistance of 1919, and believing in the principle of non-violence, has always discouraged any and all violence by the Koreans. "The Japanese have not established any semblance of evidence against these Koreans, but are following their former maneuvers of attempting to make the Koreans the scapegoats, just as they accused an innocent Korean when a Japanese assassinated Premier Hara in 1922j when the earthquake was destroying Tokyo in 1923, the Japanese likewise, without evidence, charged the burning against innocent Koreans and killed many of them in Tokyo and Yokohoma. "There is no more evidence against these Koreans than there is against the Japanese, Chinese, and Americans who were arrested charged with participation in the bombing and explosion, and who have since been released. "in addition, the Korean Commission wishes to state that the Koreans in Korea are suffering enough, under the ruthless misrule of the Japanese - religiously,, morally, politically, socially and economically. Just for one example,?, during the last twenty years, Japan has already deprived the^Koreans of two-thirds of all arable lands in Korea through confiscation and illegal occupancy. These landless Korean farmers have been compelled to seek their livelihood in the neighboring wilds of Northern Manchuria and Siberia. There, Japanese now "have followed and are harassing them. "Now, the Shanghai bomb incident has furnished Japan another pretext to clean up the Koreans in Shanghai. About fifty Japanese military and consular police, with the aid of ■4 'O'^' |
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