Word: korea
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...Floyd Williams Tomkins, President of the Friends of Korea in America and a leading clergyman of Philadelphia, filed a protest with U. S. Secretary of State Charles Evans Hughes, against Japanese inhumanity in killing Koreans in Japan during the earthquake...
...correspondence between the British and American Governments upon the subject. M. Otchiai, Japanese Ambassador to Italy and delegate at Lausanne, came unexpectedly to America's support, announcing that Japan would not sign the Concessions Protocol because it violated the Open Door (so dear to the Japanese in Korea). Ismet, much surprised, said that Turkey would decide her own economic policy without outside interference. But none the less the British claims tumbled out of the Treaty, to be argued directly between London and Washington or New York...
...Japanese Naval Department at Tokyo reported that 400 persons are missing as the result of a storm and an ensuing tidal wave which swept the east coast of Korea-that part of Japan situated on the mainland. The total number of lives lost is unknown, but it is feared that it is large...
...Korea, with an area twice the size of the State of Minnesota, was annexed by the Japanese in 1910 after a military occupation extending from 1904. In 1919 by an Imperial Rescript Korea was made an integral part of the Japanese Empire with Koreans on the same footing as Japanese...
Liaotung is the promontory immediately north of Peking and south of Korea. Its harbors include Port Arthur, of war fame, and Dalny, "model city...