FRENCH FARMHOUSE MURDERS.
Alarm pnevuils aimong inhubi‘t:'mt-S of lonely farmhouses anid 11-anilets of Nor’rhm'n Franco, it is.rcported. afftlle hchnviour of the Chinese Labour Crn-ps men employed in the devastutml areas. They are alleged to lmx-p committed soveial serious crimes jot is said :1 dozen broke into a hut in |§vhio.h lived a farmer who had come to rebuild his homo zlmong the ruins. They stabbed him 10 death and also a. c.:ll'poll*tmr employed in hui.lJding houses for refugees. ’l‘hcy threatenvd the f:n‘lner’s wife with death unless she guvé up 2111 her money, and fhey escaped with £6o.’ Owing to the difficulty which Europeané have in distinguishing one Chinaman I’rom another, the fnl'nlcl"s ivife hasnot been able to identify them among the men in adjacent camps paraded for her inspection.
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Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3332, 10 November 1919, Page 3
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129FRENCH FARMHOUSE MURDERS. Taihape Daily Times, Volume XI, Issue 3332, 10 November 1919, Page 3
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