CAPTIVE IN CHINA
AN OUTRAGE BY BANDITS,
WELSHMAN AND GERMAN SEIZED.
SEARCH BY 500 GENDARMES
(United Press Association—Copyright)
(Received This D'ay, 11.40 a.m.) LONDON, July 29
Mr D. Lloyd George, learning?, that his former secretary, Mr Gareth Jones, had been captured by Chinese bandits, took the matter up with the Foreign Office, which made representations to the Chinese Ambassador in London and the British Ambassador in China. In consequence 500 gendarmes are searching the wilds of Inner Mongolia Mr Jones was motoring with Dr. Herbert Mueller, a German journalist, near Paochang, 200 miles inland from Pekin, when bandits held up their car with shots and took the passengers prisoner. The bandits leleased the Russian driver and sent him to Kalgan with a demand for £BOOO ransom. Mr Jones was formerly & lecturer m languages at Cambridge University.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 245, 30 July 1935, Page 5
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