TROUBLES IN CHINA.

Taranaki Herald, Volume LIX, Issue 143670, 14 December 1911, Page 3

TROUBLES IN CHINA.

HORRIBLE ATROCITIES. BY CHINESE REBELS. By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. (Received Dec. 14, 9.15 a.m.) BRISBANE, Dec. 14. Files by the Changsha, which has arrived at Cairns, contain information of horrible atrocities in connection with the Chinese revolution. Since the piratical attacks On the steamers Kwong-Yuen and Shinon, trade on the West River is at a standstill. The banks of the river near Wuchow are strewn with corpses, many of them headless and denuded of clothing. Following the massacre at Wuchow the soldiers indulged in a fearful orgy. After sixty prisoners, ma,ny of them sons of local gentry who wore suspected of favouring the Loyalists, had been beheaded, the soldiers, in their thirst for blood, cut out their hearts and ate them. Some cooked them and others devoured thorn raw.