Word: killings
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...story said that when the Imperial yacht Hohenzollern was lying off the Scandinavian coast the Kaiser insulted von Hahnke who struck him in the face and later had to kill himself...
...shamefully incidental scrap in which the evangelical church is engaged," said Dr. Harry Emerson Fosdick (Modernist) last week. On the contrary, Rollin Lynde Hartt (Modernist) after a trip from coast to coast, reports that the row has just begun, that Fundamentalists everywhere are planning a real fight to kill Modernism...
...Berlin Security Police were served with tanks, armored cars, hand grenades and rifles and given orders to shoot and throw to kill if the Communists staged a demonstration. The demonstration took place but was easily broken up by the heavily armed police, with comparatively few casualties...
Perhaps you [the editor] do not know that one of the assassins is the husband of my adored daughter. I do not doubt that the motives that impelled these men to kill a person whose influence was in certain respects fatal were highly patriotic ; but the act itself, the means employed, and the fear of discovery are beneath all Christian ethics and morality. For that reason I disavow this murder with all the strength of my soul, and I pray that its authors may repent, and may find the peace of a purified conscience...
...charges made by Dr. Tomkins were based upon written evidence, supplied by a Captain Hedstrom, U. S. citizen and assistant dock superintendent at Yokohama, which is backed up by other American observers. The virtual indictment says "that the official order went out to kill as many Koreans as possible that on Sunday, Sept. 2, 1923, 250 Koreans were bound hand and foot, in groups of five, placed in an old junk, covered with oil, burned alive"; that soldiers, ordered to shoot eight Koreans, apparently enjoyed the horror of a party of Americans, who were forced to witness the preparations...