40 MURDERED AT DINNER
MONGOLIAN FUR CRIME ■ BERLIN, December 22. The Mongolian authorities have arrested. ten Russians at Hailar and charged them with one of the most gruesome murders in the recent history of Mongolia. A Mongolian cavalry patrol discovered a hunter’s cabin about 200 miles south of Hailar in which the bodies of eight Russians and 32 Chinese were found lying around a dinner table. All had been shot or stabbed. A terrified native who was captured disclosed the tragedy. He said that a party of professional hunters, loaded with valuable pelts arrived near a rival camp of Russians, who welcomed and congratulated them on theh' success.
Fellow Russians invited the party to join them in a feast. While the guests were dining the hosts, including a party of Chinese, murdered the lot and escaped with the loot.
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Greymouth Evening Star, 9 February 1935, Page 11
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