THE CHINESE REPUBLIC
COLD-BLOODED MURDER OF 200
SUSPECTS.
(London ' Times' and Sydney ' Sun' Services.)
PEKING, July 3.
Two hundred soldiers suspected of complicity in the looting of Kalgan, who were promised two months' pay and free passages to their homes, were taken off the train at the first station after Kalgan and shot in cold blood by other soldiers who had been brought for the purpose. They fired only after being threatened with death.
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Evening Star, Issue 15537, 6 July 1914, Page 6
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74THE CHINESE REPUBLIC Evening Star, Issue 15537, 6 July 1914, Page 6
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