MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS.
A TRAGEDY IN CHINA. By Telegraph,—Press Assn.—Copyright, Peking, Sept- 13. The Catholic Mission has received a report of the massacre of Chinese Christians at Weiyeung, in an East River district. It appears solliers from Kwangei, armed with machineguns, notwithstanding Canton orders to lespect the sanctity of Christian churches, raided Weiyeung and tyed in a number of women, afterwards shooting them dead. Thcv also dragged a Chinese Christian teacher from a church and shot him. They then assaulted his niece, and desecrated the church They drove the inhabitants from several villages and killed them.—Aus.-N.Z. Cable Assn.
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Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1920, Page 8
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98MASSACRE OF CHRISTIANS. Taranaki Daily News, 16 September 1920, Page 8
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