MASSACRE IN CHINA
PROTEST AGAINST TAXES.
Press Association.) (By Cable—Press Assn.—Copyright.)
SHANGHAI, October 13
The reported massacre in the Kansu Province of two hundred thousand Chinese by Moslems, which emanated ’from New York, through the Famine Relief Commission, has nqw been confirmed. Pekin despatches to-day are the first local news received of the trouble, which commenced last June, following on the failure of Moslem delegates to secure from the Provincial authorities a reduction of taxes. A general Moslem uprising followed. The number slain is estimated in the local reports at one hundred thousand, ‘instead of two hundred thousand. The districts affected are in the neighbourhood of Lanchow. The misery of the population was increased by crop failure, and a famine was unavoidable.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 15 October 1928, Page 6
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