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1st. Sunday. Pretty. Mild.
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Seoul home. So far a very mild winter.
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2nd. Monday. Rain from 10 a.m. all day. Mild.
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3rd. Tuesday. Rain. Mild.
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Seoul home. Rain all last night and all morning today. Drizzling rain until dark.
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4th. Wednesday. Pretty. Cold.
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5th. Thursday. Pretty. Cold.
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6th. Friday. Pretty. Very cold.
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Seoul home. Yesterday, the 第二高普 boys walked out shouting mansai. Today the boys of the 中東學校 did the same. The police foot and mounted are arresting the striking students by the scores. What's up? They say tens of thousand copies of inflammatory document calling upon the students to rise for something have been sent to all the schools of the Higher Common School grade.
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7th. Saturday. Snow and rain a.m. until about 8. Mild.
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Seoul home. This morning, the 第一高等普通學校 boys of the 3rd and the 4th grades went on strike. The situation looks serious. For the first time I learned form 邊壎 that the commotions among the Middle School boys of the city of late not due to strikes proper but to the indignation at and sympathy for the Korean students of 光州 whom the Japanese police, the Japanese coolies, and imprisoned for no greater offence than that a few Korean boys attempted to protect a Korean girl student from the rude "hiyakashi" of some Japanese Middle School boys. Other schools of the city are expected to join the protest.
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8th. Sunday. Bright. Cold.
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Seoul home. Just a month ago this day we left Kyoto for home. Somehow the week's visit to that city―our sojourn there―what little we said and heard of the I.P.R. Conference-all remains a pleasant memory. This possibly due to the esthetic impressions of the graceful and aristocratic city; the not altogether unpleasant reception we had from the Japanese and other delegates; and the entirely harmonious relations we seven had among ourselves.
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9th. Monday. Bright. Mild.
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Seoul home. This morning, the 儆信, 徽文, 中央, 普宬, 南大門商業―five middle grade school boys walked out to express their indignation against the Japanese policy and their sympathy for the 光州 students who are reported to have suffered and are suffering all sorts of mal-treatment at the hands of the Japanese official and private. The irrational suppression of free publication of the facts give rise to all sorts of rumors―until we can't tell which to believe and which to reject.
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10th. Tuesday. Bright. Mild.
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Seoul home. The Police Dept. gave out its version―all pro-Japanese―of the 光州學生事件. The Urnmoon edition of the Government paper 每日申報 and other Japanese papers published this one sided report; but all the three Korean papers of the city flatly refused to publish it. If there were nothing really bad―as the police manufactured report says―why didn't they publish it three weeks ago?
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11th. Wednesday. Bright. Mild.
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Seoul home. Mr. H.H. called. He feared some demonstrations may take place tomorrow morning.
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The □□學校 and 女子商業 girls walked out shouting mansei.
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Lunch at the Chosen Hotel―invited by Mr. 大村卓, the Director of the Rail Bureau to meet Mr. Kana-i, an attache of the Japanese legation, Peking. Found him a typical Japanese bureaucrat―air tight and iron clad. He suggested that the Koreans should attend the Pacific Institute as a part of the Japanese delegation. Why don't these intelligent Japanese realize that the Korean has as much right to have self or race consciousness as a Japanese?
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12th. Thursday. Cloud and sun. Almost warm.
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Seoul home. Lunch at Mr. 兪星濬's.
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After all, what's the use of the demonstrations of indignation etc.? The Japanese have absolutely nothing to fear from the unarmed protest of the Korean people. Nothing but fear makes bandits give up plundered goods; nothing but fear―and fear only―will ever make one strong race deal justly and fairly with a weak people. These agitations―however justifiable―will hurt none but the Koreans as long as they are powerless to make the Japanese afraid. Don't bark unless―until―you can bite.
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13th. Friday. Gloomy―Sun now and then. Mild.
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Seoul home. The other day Mr. Kana-i told me the following story. when I was imprisoned 1912, some good English friends called upon, the then Japanese Ambassador, Mr. 加藤高明, asking him to transmit their petition to his home Government on my behalf saying that I was an honorable and honest man etc. Mr. 加藤 said in reply that I may be too honest and honorable to have been guilty of a common crime―such as theft or murder; but that no man could be too honest or honorable to be a patriot. This remark pleased the English very much and one of the petitioners, who had taught Mr. 加藤 English when he was student, was very proud of the answer.
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14th. Saturday. Rain. Mild.
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Seoul home. Spring-like showers and Spring-like mild weather.
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The leaders of 新幹會-許憲, 權東鎭, 李鍾麟, 韓龍雲 and others arrested yesterday. Pastor 吳□榮 and Messrs. 金應集, 鄭聖米, all of the Central Y. staff have also been arrested.
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15th. Sunday. Rain. Mild.
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Seoul home. Showers all last night and this morning―Steady rain all the day.
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16th. Monday. Rain. Mild.
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Seoul home. Invited to a lunch at the First Higher Common School for Girls 女子第一高等普通學校 where our 恩姬 is in the 2nd year grade. The food prepared by the 4th year girls. 1/3 Korean, 1/3 Japanese and 1/3 foreign―in the matter of cooking. What I didn't enjoy was the bureaucratic smell among the guests. Everytime guests are invited by the Japanese School folks, two rooms are prepared one for the bureaucrats and one for the parents of the students. These "brats" spoil my appetite―as much as any other "rats".
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17th. Tuesday. Rain, rain and rain night and day. Mild.
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Seoul home. Rain last night. Rain fine and steady this morning. No rain afternoon. The rainy season seems to have struck Korea―or this part of Korea―five months too late.
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There seems to be much disturbance in the Higher Common Schools etc. in cities like 平壤, 咸興, etc. but the Korean papers are so tightly gagged that nobody knows what is going on.
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18th. Wednesday. Bright. Cold.
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19th. Thursday. Cloudy. Cold.
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20th. Friday. Gloomy. Mild.
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Seoul home. Rain last night. Turned chilly from about 3 p.m. Rain and snow toward dark-snow flakes melting no sooner than it hit the dirty muddy streets.
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21th. Saturday. Pale sun. Cold.
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22nd. Sunday. Bright. Cold.
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Seoul home. Worshipped at 宗橋 Church.
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23rd. Monday. Cloudy. Cold.
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24th. Tuesday. Cloudy. Big snow last night. Cold.
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Seoul home. Christmas celebration at Central Y. The musical part of the program under the direction of Mr. 玄在明 was the best I have ever heard in the Central Y. The audience so charmed by it that not a word or gesture was seen or heard to disturb the service.
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25th. Wednesday. Cloudy. Cold.
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26th. Thursday. Cloudy. Cold.
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Left Seoul 9:05 a.m. with 恩, 明, 璋, 琦, for Song Do home. The clean, invigorating air and the snow covered hills among which our homes are snugly located make us feel glad. Thank God our dear ones here are all well except Laure who is, however, just getting over a bad cold.
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27th. Friday. Pale sun. Comparatively mild.
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Song Do home. Beautiful. afternoon.
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28th. Saturday. Cloudy. Windy.
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Song Do home. Confined to room with malaria.
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29th. Sunday. Cloudy. Mild.
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Song Do home. Hard night with 몸살 or a sort of malaria. Confined to bed all day long.
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30th. Monday. Bright. Mild.
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Song Do home. A little better today. Too weak to go out.
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31st. Tuesday. Bright. Cold.
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Song Do home. Left for Seoul 3 p.m. train. Arrived home about 5:30 p.m. All well.
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This 1929 has been one of the hardest hit years for the Korean people. Drought in the South reduced the rice crop by at least 2 1/2 to 3 million bags(石) . The Korean Exposition so called compelled the country people to waste ten million or more yens with nothing gained except so much debt. Then, thanks to the benevolent 3 "x" policy of our step mother Government, the price of rice has been kept down to the ruinous level of six sen or so per "kin". Yet taxes and exactions rise sky-ward in the city and in the country.
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