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FIRST NEWS FROM AVIATORS.
TUESDAY, APRIL 17, 1928.
HUNAN HORRORS.
COMMUNISTS KILL 100,000
PEOPLE.
FLIGHT TO THE POLE.
ARRIVES AT SEDDIN.
Berlin; Apr. 18. - Forty crimes punishable. Ly The "Italia" arrived at" Seddin, death form the remarkable calen- Pomerania, after thirty hours of dar issued by the Communist thrilling flight through storms.- hordes, who recently ran wild in South Hunan and were responsible for an orgy of carnage and loot- ing never before experienced in China.
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London, Apr. 16. The wintry conditions through- out England, the heavy falls of snow and sleet as a result of the
Clarke City, Quebec, Apr. 18.. The story of how the aviators in the "Bremon" sighted innd when their patrol supply was nearly exhausted and they had almost given up hope, is revealed in brief message from the land-wire station nearest to Greenly: Island, The fliers were held up by the fog and the change of temperature. Only a very little fuel was left According to fünther reports opression over Europe, the buf- when land was sighted at 5.30 on from this stricken area, Leiyang teling received by the North Polar Friday afternoon.
being the centre of the Commun- sirship "Italia" In a storm, The fliers believed it was New-ist regime, miles and miles of as described in Berlin nowspapers, foundland. They saw a small lake countryside have been devastated rend almost like a trans-Atlantic and decided to descend although and dozens of villages reduced to light. The distance from Milan to the "Bremen" was not equipped asies.. The Communist calendar Seddin is only 700 miles but the | for landing on ice.
applies the death sentence not nirahip took thirty hours to make Despite the pilot's care the only to-people of wealth, but to the trip because she lost her bear- machine crashed through the ice people who pay rent, who have inge in Silesia after a terrible time and the tail wda damaged.
worked for foreigners, excepting over the Carpathians, te
The observatory wireless station Russians, or heads of families and those who maintain the sanctity at Lindberg put them right. The nerodrome at Glelwitz tried to per- of family life.
suade them to land but General Nobile decided to carry on.
تم
Many Dificulties. Prior to sighting land the "Bremen" filers encountered dim-
A pamphlet issued by the pub- culty after difficulty. Unfavour- able atmospheric conditions com-Heity, department of the Leiyang The "Italia" is considerably pelled them to fly low. There refugees gfyes some of the details damaged, her port stabiliser being after a thick fog came up and the of the people of this region. The partly torn off during the storm in plane onterad "darkness."
pamphlet states that they first Silesia. One motor did not work None of the aviators were hurt made known their plight on March and landing in Seddin was very In the landing.
2 by the same menhs, but this difficult, Routers Conditions were favourable on pamphlet dealt only with a por- the start of the flight from Baltion of the horrors and described trees with which the hills in this donnell but after thirty hours, the first invasion which took place district are covered. when the fliers were confident of on February 10. Buccess, conditions changed and the compass began to fall. Tuo fog was replaced by snow and hall.
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Ex-Enemies Meet na Friends.
People Smoked Out.
Since then the troops of General This did not avail them, much Per Chung-hsi after recapturing for searching parties were formed the town rotired to take over the land a large number were caught deforces of liengehowfu and in and killed. After some time it consequence the town was left un-was reported that there were still protected. Taking advantage of a large number of people were this fact the reds returned on hiding, among the trees, and to February 23 at midnight. In the make sure that none escaped, fur- town itself were a number of re-ther parties were formed who A Canadian plane with two for-turned refugees and many old and guarded the outlets from these mer military pilots aboard Janded weak, people, women and children; hills after which the undergrowth en Greenly Island yesterday even-a large number of their had escap-was. Ored until finally the whole Ing, establishing contact betweened the first massacre, but on this hillside was ablaze and all people the "Bremen" airmen and the out- océtision out of revenge they were who had taken refuge were thus side world. The two Canadian all slaughtered.
Quebec, Apr. 16.
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airmen this meet two former ene-
mies on a mission of succour. The
second machine will probably land on the island to-day.
destroyed by fre.
Among a list which comprises " Wide Area Covered,
over forty drimes punishable with From Leiyang the Communists the death penalty according to the Messages from the Island are went on to Chúan King Pu, Shao communist calendar are included delayed owing to telegraphic dif-Shul Pu, and Hu Chao Pu; after those who pay rent, all who ever ficulties.
ravaging these places they spread held rank in the Tain Dynasty, all The "Bremen" fliers' plans are out to surrounding villages, and who have worked for foreigners. uncertain. A brief bulletin states in all 28 villages have been swept unless the foreigners were Rus- that they expect to make satisfac-by fire and blood. According to stans, all heads of families, all tory repairs and may leave shortly the pamphlet corpses litter the who believe in the sanctity of under their own power.-Reuters ground in every direction within family life, educationalists, all American Service.
an area of ten li and the stench who bear in mind family affection, of decaying bodies is unbearable. morality, etc, all those who have There are no bulidings left stand a knowledge of law, or who serve
the public welfare. ing in this area.
JAPAN'S "REDS.”.
MEASURES TOO DRASTIC.
Horrible Torture."
Shani Kung Chao, Yon Ho Tong, Ping Chen, Shih Ka Yen, Hala The pamphlet goes on to des- Tong and Niu Kou all villages cribe the methods of execution, within radius of six or more but these are too horrible for Tokyo, Apr. 10.
have been burnt out and all those publication, as a good deal of the Though the government appears inhabitants who did not flee in detail applies to pregnant women anxious to make 4 wholesale
Other and girls. Being slowly put to clearance of radical professors and timb have been killed.
students and to curtail the study places in the vicinity have not death by cutting into small pieces, of social science, opposition to been so badly treated; in quite sand having kerosine poured over drastic measures, is voiced in sec-number of villages only three per-one and fired are punishments Lions of the press, while many sons in ten. were killed, and every only for minor offences against
the code of these savages, so that | educationalists are equally sp-tenth house was left standing.
the rest must be left to the lim posed.
Many of the foolish people were agination of the reader. It is indicatiye of the growing implicated inasmuch as the lower No news has been recolved as to feeling in this respect that the class peasants and labourers made steps being taken for the exter- hends of the Kyoto University have friends with the marauders, and mination of the perpetrators! of decided to oppose the government's assisted them to loot, and they these horrors, but the authorities proposal to dismiss the well-known radical professor, Kawakami, the were very surprised when the Cor are aware of the magnitude of the expulsion of the radical students munist turned on them and after entastrophe which has evertaken and the dissolution of the social taking the loot they had gathered this district and are doing their science groups till thorough in-accused them of harbouring wick best to suppress the Communists. ed gentry and sentenced them to It is officially reported that over 100,000 Innocent people have been
vestigations have been made.
Other seats of learning are all death. reported to be taking a similar stand-Reuter..
Many people fled into the moun killed and the whole district re- tains for safety and hid among duced to a condition of desolation.
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