GHASTLY CRIMES

Hokitika Guardian, 27 November 1931, Page 6

GHASTLY CRIMES

COMMUNISTS IN CHINA

MANY VICTIMS MURDERED.

(United Px-ess Association.—Bv Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.) (Received this day at 11.15 a.m.) (SHANGHAI, Nov. 27. Digging at the direction of the police in the international settlement, Chinese grave-diggers uncovered, another Communist catacomb containing the remains of five more victims of Red vengeance in Shanghai, bringing the total to sixteen since Sunday. The latest discoveries were buried six feet under a tumble-down shed. The police say it is impossible to estimate the number of bodies which may be revealed in future searches, and will probably be scores. Possibly, hundreds of victims of the Communists are rotting in different parts of Shanghai. - Fresh evidence, collected, daily, is revealing a- diabolical revenge exacted by Communist agents at the orders of someone of powerful influence fearing the revelation of Vital plans, affecting the Communist movement in the Far East. Documents in the possession of the police, establish beyond doubt the object of the murders all of which were committed by strangulation, being noiseless and bloodless, in order to remove every possible squealer, commencing with the family of Koo Chen Chang, a former member of the Chinese ‘Communist palrty, who repenting revealed the full contents of his knowledge of the Communist plans to the Nanking Government. Local Red agents have commenced removing every possible leak. Koo’s entire family of eleven were strangled, Koo alone escaping. With the additional bodies of Communists’ victims being unearthed’ daily, Mr Dash reported the discovery of seventeen more at Hankow. Mr Dash said “The grlrri determination of the Communist movement in China is revealed in a horrible manner.”