CHAOS IN CHINA

Evening Star, Issue 19661, 14 September 1927, Page 5

CHAOS IN CHINA

MASSACRE OF BANDITS WHOLESALE KILLING UNPRECEDENTED IN RECENT YEARS. Press Aisotiatinn—Bj Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, September 13. (Received September 14, at 1.30 a.m.) Tbo vernacular Press report tbo wholesale massacre of the notorious “Red Spear bandits,” members of the Heavenly Gate Society, by soldiers belonging to Feng Yu-bsiang, the Christian general, as reprisal for the murder of several soldiers by bandits in Northern Honan. Refugees declare that the massacre is unprecedented in recent .tears, and was carried out without regard to ago and sex, the victims including the wives and families of the bandits. It is estimated that the soldiers killed between 30,000 and 80,000 people (probably exaggerated). Further riots at Hankow were prevented by the arrival of military reinforcements from Wuchang, which are now engaged in rounding up Communists. TROUBLE AT MUKDEN. ACUTE JAPANESE AGITATION. SHANGHAI, September 13. (Received September 14, at 11.30 a.m.) Notwithstanding the persistent antiJapanese agitation in Mukden, culminating in an assault upon a Japanese policeman by Chinese, also the tearing down of the Japanese flag on the occasion of the celebration of the birth of the Princess, the army authorities m Tokio have decided to follow the policy hitherto adopted and to take no repressive measures, depending upon the authority of Chang Tso-lin. They have however, presented a strong protest.