GREAT MASSACRE
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BY CHINESE BANOITS SLAUGHTERED IN COLD BLOOO MISSION DESTROYED HELLISH WORK LOOT, RAPINE, AND MURDER. HONAN REDUCED TO ASHES. MISSIONARIES AFFEt TED. '.Received 11.4 a.m.) Electric Telegraph—Press Association PEKIN, September 26. Reports from Honan describe tlie most terrible massacre in the history of the province. Thousands ot defenceless people in the city of Shemichen were slaughtered by bandits in cold blood. The city was burned, and hundreds carried into captivity for ransom. Meagre details, brought by Cl line so Christian runners, state that the carnage was terrible, the bandits sparing nobody. They looted the city of portable valuables and went on with Hie awful orgie of slaughter, killing right and left. It is not known whether other foreign missionaries in the city escaped death, but it is certain that the China Inland mission was totally de stroved. At the conclusion of their hellish work of loot, rapine, and murder, the bandits set fire to the city, which was reduced to ashes, mercifully covering the corpses of thousands, victims of the greatest catastrophe in any city in Honan since the days of the Tar Tar massacres. Missionaries stationed in the vicinity were the Misses Brook, Popping. McGuire, and Revs. Conway and Weller and their wives.
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Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10353, 27 September 1926, Page 5
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208GREAT MASSACRE Pahiatua Herald, Volume XXXIV, Issue 10353, 27 September 1926, Page 5
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