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Show 1000 Murdered by Bandits in China Ixmdon A Reuter dispatch from Peking Pe-king says that messages were received from Shantung stating that all the inhabitants in-habitants of Wanghihpao, totaling 1000, have been massacred by bandits. The message adds that the villiage of Wang Chihapao, fifty miles west of the birthplace of coufucius, at Chufu, actively opposed the bandits, who awaited reinforcements, after which they surrounded and set fire to the village, slaughtering the inhabitants, irrespective of age or sex. Some persons per-sons are said to have been burned to death in their homes; others were kIi .t attempting to escape, while young children literally were pulled to pieces. |