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BANDITS IN CHINA. 2000 SLAUGHTERED IN A TOWN COUNTRYSIDE TERRORISED (Bv Cable—Press Association) PEKIN, Dec. 6. Advices state that bandits, led by the notorious Loa Yangren, scaled the walls of Likwankia, south-eastern Horan province, and burned houses and slaughtered the population, leaving 2000 dead and wounded. The marauders displayed extraordinary- frenzy, typing groups of townspeople and pouring' kerosene on them and igniting them into living torches. The statement declares so great a number was killed that a vast pit was dug for common interment. Foreign, missionaries fled from the district, while Yangren 's followers, who were burning mission stations, terrorised the countryside for miles around, the chieftain announcing he would kill all who opposed. *
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Waikato Independent, Volume XXIII, Issue 3148, 8 December 1923, Page 5
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