RAIDS ON CITIES
IRISH PRIESTS MURDERED
;fouk big outbages
United Press Association —By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. (Received 30th April, 12.45 p.m.) SHANGHAI, 29th April. A large force of Government troops has been dispatched to search for tho bandit horde reported to have sacked a city in tho Northern Kiangsu Province. Detachments are also leaving for Sien-tao-fen, near Hankow, where the Rev. Father Lafian and the Rev. Father Lineham, two Irish priests, were captured and are reported to have been murdered during a Communistic raid. The towns of Kein-li and Sze-Ching, i tho latter scarcely a hundred miles from Shanghai, were also attacked, looted, I and burned, the Reds making their fourth Jarge-scale outraga in four days. | Fugitives from each looted town report that thousands of peoplo were1 slain. ' The Shanghai Settlement police today raided and closed twelve Communist offices and arrested thirty agitators.
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Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1930, Page 11
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142RAIDS ON CITIES Evening Post, Volume CIX, Issue 100, 30 April 1930, Page 11
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