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ONFIDENTIAL
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Government House.
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May 1903.
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Sir,
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With reference to my despatch No 264 of this date, the state
of utter brutality to which some of the people of Kweng Si have
been degraded may be imagined from the following story told to
Mr Clementi by one of his guards during his journey through the
province. Information having been received of the whereabouts
of a robber family a party of 'braves' among whom was the
narrator, was sent out to destroy them. The house was surrounded
and the family caught. A man, his wife, and some children, the
number of whom was not stated. The man's abdomen was cut open
his entrails taken out, cooked, and eaten before his face while
he was still alive. The breasts of the woman were likewise cut
off, cooked, and eaten. The woman was described as 'sebbing'
during the operation. Both were then killed. The 'seldiers' er
'braves' did not care to kill the children themselves, so they
armed with knives some other children of the village who hacked E RIGHT HONOURABLE
JOSEPH CHAMBERLAIN M.P.
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