Japan -- Foreign relations -- Korea; Korea; Korea -- Foreign relations -- Japan
Disquietude of a somewhat serious nature is reported from
Kim-hai, under the Fusan Residency. About six o’clock in the
morning of the 14th inst., the Residency of Fusan received a
message from Kim-hai to the effect that a number of Koreans
were threatening to storm the District Office on account of
some grievance connected with taxation. Several policemen were
at once despatched to the scene of trouble, where they found
a crowd of natives actively rioting. The latter broke open
the prison, set all its inmates free and, far from yielding
to the advice of the policemen to disperse, offered obstinate
resistance. The policemen found the odds hopelessly great,
and decided to ask for re-enforcements. About this time there
arrived a force of our gendarmes who hastened to the disturbed
scene on receipt of the news that Mr. Lyang Hong-muk, the
Magistrate of Kim-hai District, had been taken prisoner by
the rioters, and that our police force from Kui-po, having
attempted to recover the Magistrate, were suffering from the
violence of the furious mob. The mob, however, successfully
checked the advance of the gendarmes for some time by the
free use of cudgels and other weapons. In the meantime, Mr.
Lyang was carried away by the mob and his whereabouts is still
unknown. Police re-enforcements subsequently arrived, and
ordered the rioters to go home, but in vain. It is stated that
the situation is assuming a more serious aspect. A joint force
of our gendarmes and policemen was despatched from Fusan early
on the morning of the 15th inst. Reports conflict about the
number of rioters, but it is believed that they are some 400.
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