Chinese Affairs
i GOVERNMENTS ALLECED l-NESTI-T¥DE. BUYING CONCESSIONS. By Cable—Press Association—Copyright Pekiri',. February 15; I Military attaches are sceptical about the Government's ability to- crush the White Wolf bands.. They estimate that 30,000 brigands, disbanded soldiery and riff-raff arc roaming the disturbed regionsPekin, February 15. By promising £BOO.OOO bargaiiv money the Franco-Chinese Industrial Bank obtained a concession to construct a' railway from Y ami-Iron, via Nanking,. Singyf»,. Ymuinanfu and Chunking. •"IN. DARKEST CHINA."" TALES OF TORTURE. London, February IS: Mrs. Balustrade traversed Mongolia- ill a caravan. She stated that prison dungeons contain a number of refined Chinese shut up for life in heavy ironbound coffins, which do not permit them to sit upright or to lie down. They only see daylight for a few minutes daily when food is thrown into the coffins through a small hole.
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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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137Chinese Affairs Taranaki Daily News, Volume LVI, Issue 196, 17 February 1914, Page 5
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