AWFUL ATROCITIES.

Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10023, 20 April 1910, Page 5

AWFUL ATROCITIES.

WHOLESALE MURDER ANU PILLAGESTORIES OP CRUELTY. United Press Association—By Kiecirio Tel gcap Copyright. {[ Received April 19, 10.33 a.m. ■• PORT DARWIN, April 19. News by the Eastern mail gives some details of the taking of the Chinese city Lwai-aen»hsien by robbers. The city is built on an island in the Liu River, about three days' journey from Kweilm, the capital of the Kwangsi province. The country around is full of precripitous limestone mountains, affording secure retreata for bandits. The robbers killed the head officials and many of tne inhabitants. The young men of the place were made to stand in a line like cattle, and were then secured by pieces of string passed through pierced holes through the protruding portions of the nose or through the flesh at the back of tb* ankles. Eventually the captives utilised as beasts of burden to cavry off the loot. All the young', good-look in;!; girls in the city were also mini ere"] oy the robbers and carried off by then* into the mountain fastnesses. The concluding scene in the tragedy was the setting fire to the, town. A correspondent says that although little is heard of these thing? as a rule, outrages similar to the above are of frequent occurrence inland, village after village and city after city beingp tendered and desolated by heartless bands of freeioottrs, who are rarely captured and punished.