CHINESE CIVIL WAR.
HORRIBLE ATROCITIES OCCUR AT WUCHOW.
A CANNIBALISTIC ORGY
(Received 14, 9.15 a.m.) Brisbane, December 14. Files by the Changsha at Cairns •rive information of horrible atrocities in connection with the Chinese ievolution. Since the piratical attacks on steamers Kwong-Yuen and Shin-On, trade on the West river is at a standstill Tho banks near Wuchow arc strewn with corpses, many headless and denuded of- clothes. Following the massacring at Wuchow the soldiers indulged in. a fearful orgy. After sixty prisoners, many of them sons of local gentry and suspected ot favouring the loyalists, had been lieheaded, the soldiers, in their thirst for blood, cut out their hearts and ate them after cooking, others devaluing them raw.
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Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 4, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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118CHINESE CIVIL WAR. Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXII, Issue 4, 14 December 1911, Page 5
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