MASSACRES IN CHINA
WHOLE TOWNS WIPED OUT (Rec. 1.30 a.m.) CHICAGO, Apl. 30.
Father Vincent Smith, a missionary who escaped to the hills near Kiangsi while the Japanese marauded the area after the Tokio bombing, said the massacre death roll might reach 500,000. The civilised mind, he said, could not conceive the tortures inflicted on men, women, and children, and even babies. Whole towns of 15,000 to 20,000 people were wiped out, homes and business olaces being burned to the ground. A handful of people who fled to the hills were the only survivors,.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 25214, 1 May 1943, Page 5
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