BANDIT MENACE.
"Reds'" Toll in Hunan Reckoned At 40,000. REIGN OF MASSACRE. SHANGHAI, June 28. It .is estimated that 400,000 of the inhabitants of Hunan Province were massacred in recent uprisings among the Communists. The menace of bandits prompted the President, Marshal Chiang Kai-shek personally to accompany a large force, for the purpose of exterminating them. Numerous towns have been reduced to ruins. Official investigators disclose that torture and other atrocities accompanied every bandit visitation.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 7
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75BANDIT MENACE. Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 7
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