CHINESE SLAUGHTER
MACHINE-GUNS SWEEP SHIP OVER 200 SOLDIERS KILLED SHANGHAI, Dec. 4 A small Chinese steamer carrying troops, adherents of General Liu-hsiang, was approaching Chungking when soldiers belonging to a rival general opened machine-gun fire on it from the river bank. The firing riddled the vessel, sweeping the crowded decks, and when the ship reached Hankow there was a glutstly sight, the alleyways running with blood. Over 200 dead were on the decks.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21358, 6 December 1932, Page 9
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73CHINESE SLAUGHTER New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIX, Issue 21358, 6 December 1932, Page 9
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