OVER 200,000 MASSACRED
INSURRECTION OF MOSLEMS CHINESE PROVINCE HORROR FANATICS BURN VILLAGES By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Australian Press Association. United Service. New York, Oct. 9. Information of the massacre of about 200,000 persons by fanatical Moslems in the Kansu province of China has been received by Dr. S. Pakes Cadman, chairman of the China famine relief organisation in New York. The information was conveyed in a letter from Mr. Leighton Rand, of the China Inland Mission at Lanchowfu, Kansu. It depicted the horrors of the famine, which have been intensified by the Moslem insurrection, and concluded: “From reports it is already known that the massacred exceed 200,000, and that numbers of villages were pillaged and burned.”
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Taranaki Daily News, 11 October 1928, Page 9
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