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"Mr. F.A. McKenzie has been abused in the columns of the Japanese press_with a violence which, in the absence of any reasoned controversy,indicated a last resource. In answer to his specific charges, only one wordhas been uttered—'lies!'
"Yet these charges embrace crimes of the first magnitude—murder, plunder,outrage, incendiarism, and in short all the horrors that make up tyranny ofthe worst description. It is difficult to see how Mr. McKenzie's sinceritycould be called into question, for he, too, like many other critics of thenew Administration, was once a warm friend and supporter of Japan.
"In those days, his contributions were quoted at great length in thenewspapers of Tokyo, while the editorial columns expressed theirappreciation of his marked capacity. So soon, however, as he found faultwith the conditions prevailing in Korea, he was contemptuously termed a'yellow journalist' and a 'sensation monger.'"—From "Empires of the FarEast" by F. Lancelot Lawson. London. Grant Richards.
"Mr. McKenzie was perhaps the only foreigner outside the ranks ofmissionaries who ever took the trouble to elude the vigilance of theJapanese, escape from Seoul into the interior, and there see with his owneyes what the Japanese were really doing. And yet when men of this kind,who write of things which come within scope of personal observation andenquiry, have the presumption to tell the world that all is not well inKorea, and that the Japanese cannot be acquitted of guilt in this context,grave pundits in Tokyo, London and New York gravely rebuke them forfollowing their own senses in preference to the official returns of theResidency General. It is a poor joke at the best! Nor is it the symptom ofa powerful cause that the failure of the Japanese authorities to 'pacify'the interior is ascribed to 'anti-Japanese' writers like Mr.McKenzie."—From "Peace and War in the Far East," by E.J. Harrison.Yokohama. Kelly and Walsh.
Korea's Fight for
Freedom
By
F.A. McKENZIE
Author of "The Tragedy of Korea," "The
Unveiled East," "Through the
Hindenburg Line" etc.
1920
Preface
The peaceful uprising of the people of Korea against Japan in the spring of1919 came as a world surprise. Here was a nation that had been ticketed anddocketed by world statesmen as degenerate and cowardly, revealing heroismof a very high order.
The soldier facing the enemy in the open is inspired by the atmosphere ofwar, and knows that he has at least a fighting chance against his foe. TheKoreans took their stand—their women and children by their side—withoutweapons and without means of defense. They pledged themselves ahead to showno violence. They had all too good reason to anticipate that their lotwould be the same as that of others who had preceded them—torture asingenious and varied as Torquemada and his familiars ever practiced.
They were not disappointed. They were called on to endure all that they hadanticipated, in good measure, pressed down and running over. When they weredragged to prison, others stepped into their place. When these were taken,still others were ready to succeed them. And more are even now waiting tojoin in the dread