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title: '"Red Cross pamphlet on March 1st Movement" (Rev. Soon Hyun Collected Works), p. 24: photograph captioned "merciless Japanese soldiers"'
url: https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/red-cross-pamphlet-march-first-slashed-body-1919/
description: 'A page of the English-language 1919 pamphlet prints a single photograph of a mutilated body with a three-line caption: after the ''first surprise'' the…'
section: Collection
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**Content note:** Photograph of a mutilated human body with an accusatory caption, from a 1919 Korean-side atrocity pamphlet. This object is shown as it was published. [Why](https://propagandaarchive.org/about/#as-it-was)

[!["Red Cross pamphlet on March 1st Movement" (Rev. Soon Hyun Collected Works), p. 24: photograph captioned "merciless Japanese soldiers"](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/red-cross-pamphlet-march-first-slashed-body-1919.jpg)](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/images/red-cross-pamphlet-march-first-slashed-body-1919.jpg)

# "Red Cross pamphlet on March 1st Movement" (Rev. Soon Hyun Collected Works), p. 24: photograph captioned "merciless Japanese soldiers"

A page of the English-language 1919 pamphlet prints a single photograph of a mutilated body with a three-line caption: after the 'first surprise' the Japanese authorities 'turned loose the soldiers on the Koreans', and the man was 'slashed and cut up all over the body by merciless Japanese soldiers'. The tell is the evaluative label 'merciless' and the collective attribution ('the Japanese authorities') in the caption, which carries the accusation that the photograph itself does not state.

## Text on the object

Original (English) · read from the image, not independently checked

```
After the first surprise the Japanese authorities turned loose the soldiers
on the Koreans.  This picture shows how one of them was slashed and
cut up all over the body by merciless Japanese soldiers.
```

Caption only; the rest of the page is the photograph (no other printed text).

[← Record of the New Zealand Expeditionary Force in the Great War, 4th Aug. 1914 - 28th June 1919](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/record-of-the-nzef-in-the-great-war-1919/) [РСФСР расчётный знак, 500 рублей, reverse with the multilingual slogan (Soviet Russia, 1919) →](https://propagandaarchive.org/collection/rsfsr-500-rubles-reverse-slogan-1919/)

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