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BRITISH OFFICERS IN CHINA. (British Official Wireless.) RUGBY, April 7. In a statement to the House of Commons about the four British officers of the mercantile marine captured recently by pirates in Chinese waters, the Foreign Under-Secretary, Captain R, A. Eden, said one of them, Mr. F. L. Pears, had arrived at Newchwang on April 3 with a letter from the chief of the brigands demanding as ransom a considerable sum of money and a large quantity of arms and ammunition.
Captain Eden said it was stated that the captives had not been bound or illtreated, and had been kept in a junk in the Panshan area since their capture. The local authorities, who had been vigorously prosecuting a search for the officers, had been requested to take no independent action without first consulting the British Vice-Consul in Newchwang, who was in constant touch with all the developments and would take all possible measures to secure the release of the captives.
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Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 9
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164HELD TO RANSOM. Auckland Star, Volume LXIV, Issue 83, 8 April 1933, Page 9
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