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Show f 5 ACCUSED Of MASSACRES Burned Chinese Villages and Shot Young Men. Report Missionaries TOKK'. Nov SO (Hy the Associated Associ-ated Press. Canadian misaionarlei In Manchuria have fent Q signed state.-! mentto the Associated Press, tel!- Ins: of alleged massacres by Japanese: troops In Chien Tao. Dr. Martin, aj Presbyterian, missionary at Yongl Jung, says: y i "The Japanese sent 15.000 troops. Into this part of China with the seem--itig intention of wiping out he en-tiro en-tiro Christian (immunity, especially oung men. Villages were methodically methodical-ly burned dally and th males In tht ill were shot Yung June la surroun led by a ring of villages, which suffered from fire and wholesale murder " Dr. Martin names thirty-two villages' in which massacres occurred ny which wore burned. Reports received from other missionaries tend to corroborate! the story of Dr. Martin The war office here today informed the correspondent that there were 50,000 troops in the region referred to. Churches and school. It was said, bad been burned only when (here was evidence that they Wore bcir & ucd for the purpose ol creating ills-' affection, it waa ulso declared that the only villages burner; were: those1 In which a majority of the inhabitants were leagued with outlaws. A commission of Inquiry' has been sent to the scene |