RED ATROCITIES.

Auckland Star, Volume LXII, Issue 281, 27 November 1931, Page 7

RED ATROCITIES.

DIABOLICAL REVENGE.

Catacombs of Murdered Victims

In China.

HORRIBLE REVELATIONS.

(United P.A.—Electric Telegraph—Copyright)

(Received 12.30 p.m.)

SHANGHAI, November 26.

Digging at the direction of the police in the International Settlement, Chinese gravediggers uncovered another. Communist catacomb with the remains of five more victims of Red vengeance in Shanghai. The total since last Sunday is 16. The latest discoveries were buried six feet under a tumbledown shed. The police say it is impossible to estimate the number of bodies which may be revealed in future searches. There are probably scores, possibly hundreds, of victims of the Communists rotting in different parts of Shanghai. Freeh evidence is being collected daily, revealing the diabolical revenge exacted by Communist agents at the orders of someone with a powerful influence, fearing the revelation of vital plans affecting the Communist movement in the East. Documents in the possession of the police establish beyond doubt that the object of the murders, ali of which were by strangulation, noiseless and bloodless,, was in order to remove every possible "squealer," commencing with the family of Koo Chen-chang, a former member of the Chinese Communist party, who repented and revealed to the Nanking Government the full contents of his knowledge of the Communist plans. Local Red agents then commenced removing' every possible leak. ' Koo's. entire family of 11" was strangled,. Koo alone escaping. With additional bodies of the Communist victims being unearthed daily— the discovery is reported of 17 more at Hankow—the grim determination of the Communist movement in China is revealed in a horrible manner.