THE CHINESE REVOLT.
GENERAL PARDON FOR MOST PRISONERS.
LAND TAXES REMITTED
(By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (United Press Association.)
Pekin, March 12
A manifesto marking the inception of the Republic pardons all prisoners except murderers and robbers, and remits overdue land taxes.
1000 EXECUTIONS WEEKLY
London, March 12
The Daily Telegraph’s Pokin correspondent states that summary executions continue, 1000 being decapitated in a week at Pekin and Tientsin. Often four’ or five corpses are loft in a heap in the streets, where the rabble gloat over them. A few guilty soldiers aro punisaed, hut those executed are mostly mere rabble. The general situation is unhealthy.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 66, 13 March 1912, Page 5
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