MOSLEM FANATICS
WHOLESALE MASSACRE INSURRECTION IN KANSU PROVINCE 200,000 CHINESE KILLED (United Press Assn.—By Telegraph—Copyright.) New York, October 9. Dr S. Parks Cadman, chairman of the China famine relief organization in New York, received information to-day of the massacre of about 200,000 persons by fanatic Moslems in the Kansu province, China. The information was conveyed in a letter from Mr Leighton Rand, of the China Inland Mission at Lan-chow-fu, Kansu. It depicted the horrors of the famine which had been intensified by the Moslem insurrection and concluded: “From reports already it is known that the massacred exceed 200,000 and that numbers of villages were pillaged and burned.”—United Service.
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Southland Times, Issue 20613, 11 October 1928, Page 7
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