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Murder in Manchuria INTOXICATED JAPANESE By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright Peking, June 22. • Following the murder of a German Catholic missionary, Father Conrad Rapp, allegedly by intoxicated Japanese soldiers in the Chientao district of tlie Kirin Province along the Korean border, British nationals have been advised to evacuate the territory owing to fear of anti-foreign risings. Reports allege that the Japanese beat the priest unconscious, dragged him to a deserted stream bed. and shot him, burying the body in the sand. Photographs of the corpse reveal that Father Rapp was shot through the heart and abdomen, and bayoneted in about thirty places. The German Legation here has Instructed the German Consul-General at Mukden to proceed to Chientao to Investigate.
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Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 12
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120MISSIONARY SHOT Dominion, Volume 25, Issue 230, 24 June 1932, Page 12
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