DEFEATED TROOPS BUTCHERED
STRAGGLERS AND OFFICERS SLAUGHTERED i’F.KTN, .Tune 14. Flic Yunnaneso debacle is complete in Canton. Cold-blooded butchery of the defeated forces is rife. Stragglers caught in the Bund were stabbed with bayonets, riddled with bullets, and thrown into the river. Fleeing officers
endeavouring to escape by steamer to Hong Kong were intercepted and killed or taken to the Red navy, stripped of pracliea* 1 v everything of value, and then mercilessly killed. The Koumintegg Society leaders at Hong Kpng repudiated any intention of establishing a Communistic Government in Canton. They denied that there was any alliance with the,-.Soviet. As it is impossible to find one man to fill Sun \at Sen's place it- is intended to create a commission to carry im the work ot administration.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LVI, 15 June 1925, Page 5
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