RECENT MASSACRE IN CHINA
.lepers burnt alive. governor"©}? Wanking responsible. By Telegf&nh.— We« Association.-Copyfight. SHANGHAI, 22nd January. ( The Governor of Nanking was responsible for the massacre of 39 lepers, details of which were cabled recently. He had men, wome^ and children driven into a pit, where a number Were shot and the rest burnt alive. The same Governor three and a-half years ago collected a hundred lepers at Fungchow on the pretext of distributing food, and slaughtered them. tThe authorities at Nanking pretended to accept the Catholic fathers' offer to build a laaar-house for destitute lepers who had been living for some years a good few miles outside the city. They dug a pit In a parade ground, partly filling it with wood soaked in kerosene. They then drove the leper* ihto the pit at the point of ' the bayonet. Thirtynino of the lepers were shot and incinerated in the presence of large crowds, and the fortieth was afterwards shot.]
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Evening Post, Volume LXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1913, Page 7
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