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(Press Assn.—
PRIEST BUTCHERED drunken japanese soldiers allegedly to blame : for outrage POSSIBLE COMPLICATIONS
By Telegrap'n — Copyrlght.)
Rec. June 23, 1 a.m. PEKIN, Wednesday. Following the murder of a German I Catholic priest, Father Conrad Papp, allegedly by intoxicated Japanese soldiers in the Chiehtao district, Kirin province, along the Korean b order, British nationals have been advised tb evacuate the territory; owing tb fear of an anti-f oreign uprising. Reports allege that the Japanese I beat the priest Tuiti! he became unI conscious and then dragged him to I a deserted stream bed, where they I shot him, burying the body in the I sand. I Photographs of the corpse reveal I that Father Papp was shot through I the heart and abdonien and was baI yonetted in abont 30 places. I The German legation here has inI structed the German Consul-General 1 at Mulcden to proceed to Chiehtao to I investigate.
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Rotorua Morning Post, Volume 2, Issue 258, 23 June 1932, Page 5
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