'The drowning of the' doomed men, women and children: was ten plan: ned; the: report, continued.
'Atter being led to believe that they would. be., transported to. "a - newly' established' colony, the lepers: were put aboard two sampans'on the night et. April 23, it was' alleged. When the vessels Zeached a' point in. mid. stream off Nanshihtou, an attempt was made to open, the cocks'to sink the boats, This was, however, folled by, the lepers, who put up a vooiferous opposition. The lepers''were then Janded at Nonshihfou and taken the' "China Times report 'The authorities: then" secured the' ald of Army sappers and dug' three large graves on Lu-Ku Kang, a hill {in the Tafuling range of Palyunshan, White Cloud. Mountain, Several hundred "bags of'llme. were also Drought tothe spot at night.
the evening of April 25, a. Peace Preservation Corps. company, com-minded. by eight Inspectors, arrived at the refuge in 18 trucks into which the lepers were subsequently loaded. The authorities are alleged: to have told the lepers that they were being fansterred to colony, on. Palyunhot on Mountainside The trucks proceeded, up the mountain in. groups of three, "When they reached a point halfway up the mountain, the lepers were ordered to alight: "They were. immediately. seized and shot, the dispatch said, 'Because only one bullet was allowed the executioners for each leper, many' of them were thrown into. the prepared graves halt dead, thet report went on, This process, went on from 9 o'clock at night to 1 o'clock the next: moraing.
Persons. living near by, awakened by the shots andthe. eries. of the victims, came in the night to see what was happening and. were struck with horror, the "China Times" report said, The executioners, tired because o large: number of victims, had "very unsteady hands" with the result that, many of the lepers were thrown into the graves. only wounded but all the "China Times" alspateh
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