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Again & again, the Emperor's bombers returned. On the ground, fifth columnists who had sabotaged the air-raid warning put lighted flares and rockets to guide them. Within two days Brereton's effective air force was reduced to about two score planes...
...dying of thirst, were shot as they wriggled on their bellies towards water; how a gutted soldier with bowels dangling was hung on barbed wire as an object lesson to those who would escape; how men who had dropped in the road were ground by the wheels of the Emperor's Ford trucks, flattened out like rotting rabbits on a busy highway...
...March 1, 1919, the funeral day of Korea's puppet Emperor, the people clad themselves in white mourning and the straw shoes of grief. Under the uneasy eyes of Jap gendarmes, 200,000 gathered in Seoul, the seaside capital. At two hours past noon, in thunderous mass unison, the people whipped forbidden banners into the air, shouted "Mansei!" ("Long Live Korea!"). In Pagoda Park a committee of 33 read a declaration: "We herewith proclaim the independence of Korea...
...Full title: George VI, by the Grace of God, of Great Britain, Ireland and of the British Dominions beyond the Seas, King, Defender of the Faith, Emperor of India...
...human tie between them all is the King-Emperor...