ALLEGED CANNIBALISM.
SIEGE OF CHINESE CITY. HARDSHIPS OF FOREIGNERS. LONDON, Dec. 9. A message from Pekin states that a refugee from Sianfu which was besieged in November by Marshal Wu Pehfu’s troops, relates ho 'l thc fJ et J were strewn with corpses of the staived poor, and how the soldiers were robbi H g um V an^e n sh was on sale for food, while many persons were subsisting bean cakes which normally are used for cattle food or fertiliser. Dogs had vanished from the streets, and the troops tvere eating horse-flesa and mi let Di lU Clement Stockley, a local medical missionary, in a letter to a, frienc i Pekin, savs that the situation is aes perate, and that hundreds are dying dailv. The foreigners, however, can hold out for a fortnight if allowed to retain their present food supplies.
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Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 December 1926, Page 3
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142ALLEGED CANNIBALISM. Hawera Star, Volume XLVI, 30 December 1926, Page 3
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