LEPERS BUTCHERED.
— -4 : J SHOCKING OUTRAGE IN CHINA. 1 - By Telegraph—Press Association—Copyright (Eec. January 12, 6.5 p.m.) Shanghai, January 11. The authorities at Nanning pretended . to accept the Catholic Fathers' offer 1 to build a lazarhouse for destituto lexers who had been living for some years a good few milea outside. 3 • They dug a pit in the paradp ground, i partly filling it,with wood 6oakod in kcro- . sene, and drove inte.tho pit at the bayo- . net point thirty-nine lepers, who were . then shot and incinerated, is the pro-' 6ehce of. large''.crowds... .A fortieth was ■ afterwards shot.
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Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 5
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97LEPERS BUTCHERED. Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1646, 13 January 1913, Page 5
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