AFFAIRS IN CHINA
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SUMMARY EXECUTIONS 1000 DECAPITATIONS IN A WEEK GENERAL SITUATION UNHEALTHY. (Heceived Last Night, 11.20 o'clock.) LONDON. March 12. The Daily Telegraph's Peking correspondent states that summary executions continue, and a thousand were decapitated in a week at Peking and Tientsin, and often four or five corpses were left in a heap in the street, where the rabble gloat over them. A few guilty isoldiers were punished, but the executed mostly consist of the mere rabble. The general situation is unhealthy,MANIFESTO ISSUED. PRISONERS PARDONED. TAXES REMITTED. (Received Last Night, 10.15 o'clock.) PEKING, March 12. " A manifesto,- marking the inception of the ißepuhlic, pardons all prisoners, except murderers and robbers, and remit® all overdue land taxes.,
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Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10582, 13 March 1912, Page 5
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125AFFAIRS IN CHINA Wairarapa Age, Volume XXXII, Issue 10582, 13 March 1912, Page 5
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