IN BANDITS’ HANDS
PRIESTS MISSING AFTER CHINESE RAID TROOPS PURSUE LOOTERS Reed. 9.5 a.m. SHANGHAI, Tuesday. A large force of Government troops has been dispatched to search for the oandit horde which is reported to have sacked the city of Kinghsien in the northern Kiangsu Province. Detachments are also leaving for Sientaofen, near Hankow, where the Rev. Fathers Lallan and Linehan, /rish priests, were captured, and are reported to have been murdered during a Communistic raid. The towns of Keinli and Szeching, the latter scarcely 100 miles from Shanghai, were also attacked, looted and burned, the Reds making their fourth large scale outrage in four days. The fugitives from each looted town report that thousands are slain m the settlement. The police today raided and closed 12 Communist offices and arrested 30 agitators.
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Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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133IN BANDITS’ HANDS Sun (Auckland), Volume IV, Issue 959, 30 April 1930, Page 9
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