The Archive · 1929

Outrages on Foreigners in the Interior

List of Deaths and Abductions by Bandits Since Beginning of This Year: Nine Murdered: Thirty-two Carried Off The murder of a Roman Catholic Bishop and two priests in Iupeh, this week, directs attention to the large number of murders and outrages of Which foreigners have been victims in the interior of China this yeas. We leave out the murders and armed: robberies in Shanghai and other large cities, risings of dis contented and mutinous soldiers, even the many organized piracies which are of constant occurrence the length of the China coos Major outrages on foreigners in the interior during the course of this year include nine foreigners (all missionaries except one) murdered brigands, $2 captured and hele to ransom, often barbarously treated during the period of the detention; and seven others the vvietims of violent. robbery and treatment which only just stopped short of abduction.

Following is a summary of the outrage

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