Poking, Apr. 20.
mandate issued at midnight appoints Dr. W. W. Yen Presi-dont and Mr, Tsai Ting-kon and Mr. Yang Chen, former Foreign Gommissionor at Shanghai, Vico-Presidents of the Chinese Rea Gross Society.—Reutor's Pacific MUNDENDS OF PEOPLE BUTCHERED, it, the, Kiaho, district, alone, wndreds of country. people have eon cruelly butchered with Knives, whole villages have been wiped out, the people killed or fled, Some time ago when the Kisho was looted, the mayor and Jother city officials, together with about 100 people of whom about were your were carried to the hills, Those women and girlls of 12 years and over who were not able to flee from the city before the bandits entered sulfored unmentionable outrages. All the shops, homes, the Chinese Post Office and the American Presbyterian Mission chapel and day school wore looted. those taken to the hills and held ssi were among there until hundreds of dollars for their ransom was paid. Even the girls in the Mission school were outraged by these fiends. Nota fow of the people wore Killed. imperative that no local man act mayor.
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