MURDER AND RAPINE

New Zealand Times, Volume XLIX, Issue 11245, 24 June 1922, Page 5

MURDER AND RAPINE

ARMY RUNS RIOT HORRORS PERPETRATED BY SOLDIERS IN CHINA. WOMEN LASHED WITH WHIPS. By Telegraph.—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian ami N.Z. Cable Association. SHANGHAI, June 22. A fore© of 10,000 men of the Northern Army, sent against Sun Yat Sen, in the Kiang-Si province, mutineer! and burned Xiang-Fu and other nearby cities, and slaughtered many of the inhabitants. Sun Yat Son was taken prisoner, and is being bold on board tho Chinese cruiser Haighi. near Canton. , , , Later reports. state that the horrors perpetrated by tho mutineers were tho worst since the Boxer rebellion. Soldiers lashed foreign women with whip* ta farce them into a hurried mard, FOREIGNERS IN DANGER BRITISH GUNBOAT ARRIVES. ~~PEKIN, June 22. The British gunboat Cockchafer has entered Payang Lake, to pi'd- np foreigners in danger at Nanchang. ARMISTICE SIGNED RIVAL GENERALS BROUGHT TOGETHER. PEKIN, June 22. Tho Chines© news to-day includes a report that Chang Tso-lin and Wu Pei-fu have signed an armistice at Chin-wang-tao, a-s the lesult of negotiations aboard a British warship. DRIVEN TO MOUNTAINS FOREIGN WOMEN AND MISSIONARIES. Australian and N.Z. Cable Association. SHANGHAI, June 22. Reports from Kiang-Su state that foreign women and missionaries, roped with Chinese, were driven into the mountains byi the mutinous troops, who are committing wholesale murders in tho Kiang-Su province. It is reverted that 10,000 Chinese and many foreigners have been slaughtered British missionaries are appealing to the Foreign Office in London for assistance.