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Updated: May 10, 2025
When they were through beating her they said, "Now will you refrain from yelling, 'Mansei!" "Never!" said this old woman. Then they took a bar of iron and beat her over the legs until she dropped. "Now will you refrain from yelling 'Mansei?" The old woman was weak, but in a low, painful whisper said, "The next time the women come to yell, if I am able to walk I will be with them!"
She was then sent into another room. Later she and other women were again brought in the office. "Do you know now how wrong it is to call 'Mansei'?" the police asked. "Will you ever dare to do such a thing again?" Gradually news of how the women were being treated spread. A crowd of five hundred people gathered next morning.
This placed the Japanese authorities in the ridiculous position of arresting a dumb man for yelling "Mansei!" They tortured him for months. He was told that he would be released if he would promise never to lift his hands above his head again. He could not speak in answer to their demands. They waited. Suddenly he caught their meaning.
Another victim was the wife of a Christian teacher, a very bright, intelligent woman, with one child four months old, and two or three months advanced in her second pregnancy. She had taken a small part in the demonstration and then had gone to the home of the mother of another woman who had been arrested, to comfort her. Police came here, and demanded if she had shouted "Mansei."
One man it is not clear whether he called "Mansei" or was an accidental spectator was pushed in the deep gutter by the roadside as the demonstrators rushed away. As he struggled out the police came up. There was no question of the man resisting or not resisting. He was unarmed and alone.
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