CHINESE BANDITS
A TOWN DESTROYED (United Press Association —By Electrio Telegraph—Copyright) (Received 10th January 10.30 a.m.) PEKING, 9th January. A massacre of 30,000 people in the past nine months in South Kansu by bandits under the Mohammedan leader Matinghsien. is confirmed by a Chinese report which also states that the outlaw captured 20,000 women during the same period. The reports add that bandits destroyed the town of Liliisen when the militia resisted, and slaughtered every one save the inmates of the prison. The bandits made a practice of burning the captives when a ransom was not forthcoming. At least 30,000 people are estimated to have died of starvation in tiie ra.\ aged region.
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Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 7
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113CHINESE BANDITS Nelson Evening Mail, Volume LXIV, 10 January 1931, Page 7
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