GERMAN RELEASED
THE WELSHMAN STILL HELD.
CAPTIVE OF CHINESE BANDITS.
AN OUTRAGE IN MONGOLIA
(United Press Association—Copyright) (Received This Day, 11.25 a.m.) PEKIN, July 30.
Dr. Herbert Mueller (the German •journalist who was captured by bandits) telephoned from Paochang that he has been released and is going to Kalgan. The bandits still hold Mr Gareth Jones. Mr TJoydl George’s former secretary, and at one time alecturer of languages at Cambridge University.
. Mr Jones was motoring with Dr Mueller near Paochang, 200 miles inland from Pekin, when bandits held up their car with shots and took the passengers prisoner. The bandits released the Russian driver and sent him to Kalgan with a demand for £BOOO ransom.
As a result of Mr Lloyd George taking the matter up with the Foreign Office, which made representations to the Chinese Ambassador- in London and the British Ambassador in China. Five hundred gendarmes are searching the wilds of Inner Mongolia.
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Ashburton Guardian, Volume 55, Issue 246, 31 July 1935, Page 5
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