200,000 Massacred By Fanatic Moslems In Kansu, China.
(United Press Association. —By Electric Teleyraph.—Copyright., (Received October 10, 11.30 a.m.) NEW YORK, October 9. DR S. PARKES CADMAN, chairman of the China famine relief organisation in New York, received information to-day of the massacre of about 200,000 persons by fanatic Moslems in Karisu 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 received it is known that those massacred exceed 20(1.000 and that a number of villages were pillaged and burned.”— Australian Press Association-United Service.
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Star (Christchurch), Issue 18585, 10 October 1928, Page 1
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