Soldiers Burn 67 Farmers.

New York Times 100 years ago today, May 19, 1913:
The Victims Had Resisted Attempts of Chinese Forces to Destroy Opium.
    SHANGHAI, May 18.— Sixty-seven farmers of Shen Chow Ting, in Western Honan, who had resisted the attempts of the soldiers to destroy their crops of opium, were burned to death to-day in a building where they were holding a meeting, according to a dispatch received here by The North China Daily News.
    The dispatch adds that the soldiers started the fire.