The Archive · 1928

Looting and Outrage by Enlightened South

wom Our Hatcwow Comnisronoext Tsingtao, May 1.

General Tan Yen-kai, Chairman of the Nationalist Government at.

Nanking, has recently broadcast an appeal for mission hospitals to send their surgeons into the war gone at Heuchowfu to care for the wounded, for which: General Tan's government has made such scanty preparation; he has furnished the opportunity for giving to the general pablic some facts of which the General himself and his asso-cellar to garret and horses quartered in what remains of the build. ings. The homes of about half of the doctors in charge have been looted of all their contents; in one case observed by the writer, the windows, doors, floors, ceiling and every particle of woodwork except the woof has been ripped out and carried away for fuel. Even the bricks in the interior walls have Deen found usable by these "guests" who have come at their own in-elates may be ignorant,

Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.

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