CHINESE BANDITS
CAPTIVE GROUPS BURNED ALIVE (Australian and N.Z. Cable Association.) PEKIN, December 6., Advices state that bandits, led by the notorious Lao Yangren, scaled the walls of Licwankia (Southern Honen Province), burned the houses and slaughtered the population, leaving two thousand dead and wounded. The mauraders displayed extraordinary frenzy, tying groups of townspeople and pouring kerosene on them, igniting them into living torches. Receipt of the report was delayed for a fortnight, due to Licwankia’s isolated position. The statement declares that so great a. number were killed, that a vast pit was dug for their common interment. Foreign missionaries fled from the district while Yangren's followers, who were burning mission stations, terrorised the countryside for miles around, the chieftain announcing that ho would kill all who opposed him. __
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Greymouth Evening Star, 8 December 1923, Page 5
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