Word: wangchihpao
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Missionaries arriving from the interior told of bandit gangs raiding undefended villages in a spirit of grim carnival. In the formerly law-abiding province of Shantung, for example, the town of Wangchihpao was sacked and 1,000 Chinese killed. Many children whose parents had been murdered came to the bandits, begged mercy, food. Ogreish, the murderers amused themselves by seizing the legs and arms of the smaller children and literally tearing them to pieces. Older boys and girls were stripped, then flogged, or maimed, killed or set free at the whim of their captors...
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