CHINESE BUTCHERY
, OF SURRENDERED SOLDIERS. THOUSANDS REPORTED KILLED. (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright). (Received this day. at 11 a.m.) r SHANGHAI, Sep. 27. The City is shocked ,at the report of the brutal butchery of three thousand surrendered Chihli. /and Shantung soldiers, by the Nationalists enroute from Luanchow, where they surrendered recently. They were going to Tongshan for the purpose of disarmament. By pre-arranged plans, the train bearing the defeated Northerners was ambushed by the Nationalists, and riddled by machine guns and blown to' pieces by small camion.
, The entrained soldiers did not have a chance of defence.
Reports from other centres shake that in the recent fighting the surrendered Northerners were lined up in hundreds and executed. Machine guns, concealed, fired without warning.
The Nationalist’s barbaric treatment of the defeated, enemy has aroused the indignation of all foreigners and the majority of right-thinking Chinese.
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Hokitika Guardian, 28 September 1928, Page 5
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