OUTRAGES IN CHINA.

Colonist, Volume LII, Issue 12772, 20 April 1910, Page 3

OUTRAGES IN CHINA.

TOWN SACKED BY ROBBERS

SHOCKING ATROCITIES

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Port Darwin, April 19. News by the Eastern mail gives some details of th© taking of the Chinese city of Hwai Aen Hsien by robbers. YTh'e city is built upon an island in the Liv river; about three days' journey from Kweilin, the; capital of Kwangsi Province. • The country around is full of precipitous limestone mountains, affording secure retreats for bandits. The robbers killed the head officials, and many of the inhabitants. The young men of the place were made to stand in a line like cattle, and were then secured by holes pierced through the protruding portion of the nose or through the flesh at the back of the ankles, through which pieces of string were eventually passed. . The captives were utilised like beasts of burden to carry off the loot. All the young and good looking girls in the city were also mustered by the robbers and carried off by them into the mountain fastnesses. • The concluding seen© in th© tragedy was the setting fire to the town. The correspondent says that although little is heard of these things as a rule, outrages similar to the aDOV . e are of frequent occurrence inland. Village after village, and city after city, have been plundered and desolated by heartless bands of freebooters who were rarely captured or punished.