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FAC KIX G K UA.N'G-CHOtf. "TtniTH AVOLVHS' ■’ METHOfiF. AVI IOLK.SALK SLA UGHTLT:. (Times and Sydney Sun Services.) i’EKI.V, April :b Tlie sacking of JCuang-chow was perpctraied with appalliing ferocity. "AVhilo Wolf" bandits siiof. backed and burnt old women believed to have money, and tortured tln m in the most horrible manner. A man escaping from a wall, which, lie 1 1 ail defended, was first shot and then pounded to death with bricks. The brigands looted the Treasury and made the crowd scramble for copper coins and notes, shooting anyone appearing to get more than a fair share. Over a thousand jieoplc were slaughtered, including a magistrate, who was hacked to pieces, and his remains soaked in kerosene and burnt. In an adjoining town where the people imprudently fired two old rusty cannons the whole population, including women, and children, were killed.
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Southland Times, Issue 17619, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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143CHINA Southland Times, Issue 17619, 6 April 1914, Page 5
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