MASSACRE IN CHINA.
I CHINESE CHRISTIANS KILLED. (Received Sept. 14, 1.40 p.m.) PEKIN, Sept. 13. Tlie Catholic mission has received a report of the massacre of the Chinese Christians at Weiyeung, m East River district. It appears . that soldiers from Kwangsi, armed with machine guns, notwithstanding Canton orders to respect the 'sanctity of Christian churches, raided Weiyeu'ng and tied up a number of women, afterwards shooting them dead. They also dragged a Chinese Christian teacher from the church and shot him, assaulted his niece, desecrated the church, and drove the inhabitants from several villages and killect them.— Reuter.
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume XLVII, Issue 15318, 14 September 1920, Page 6
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