Chinese Massacres
HUNAN PROVINCE SLAUGHTER 400,000 PEOPLE MURDERED I3y Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright] Received .June 2°, 8.14 p.m. SHANGHAI, Juno 27. It is estimated that 400,000 inhabitants of Hunan Province were massacred in recent uprisings among Communists and bandits.
The menace has prompted General Chiang kai-Sheek personally to a .company a largo force for the purpose of exterminating them.
Numerous towns have been reduced t> ruins. Official investigations disclose torture and othe atrocitie , accompanied every bandit visitation.
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Wanganui Chronicle, Volume 74, Issue 151, 29 June 1931, Page 7
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