Evening Republican, Volume 16, Number 19, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 22 January 1912 — MASSACRE OF INDIA LEPERS [ARTICLE]

MASSACRE OF INDIA LEPERS

Victims Were Assembled by Chinese Governor and Shot Down by Soldiers. Calcutta. —The mission to lepers In India and the east 1b responsible for a tragic story of the massacre of a number of lepers In a district near the French frontier In China. According to this story, a military commander of a district Induced the lepers to assemble by the announcement that a distribution of rice would be made. A large number gathered, bringing with them many children. Arrived at the rendezvous, the lepers were surrounded by soldiers and shot down. Dead and wounded were then shoveled Into a deep pit already prepared and kerosene oil poured over them, the whole mass then being set on fire. A few who escaped were hunted down on the hills and killed.