KIDNAPPED BRITISH OFFICERS.
BANDITS DRIVEN TO REMOTE SPOT. JAPANESE DIFFICULTIES IN .. MANCHUKUO. SHANGHAI, July 26. Reports reaching Dairen indicate the increasing difficulty of the task of negotiating for the release of the three British ship's officers, Messrs Blue Johnson, and Hargraves, who were seized by bandits from the ship Nanchang on March 29. After a recent joint Japanese and Manchukuo attack on the pirate's lair in the Panshan district, when 20 outlaws were killed, the remainder fled to the north with the SSSvls. The negotiators are unaffe to establish contact as the banHits fled far inland. Ihe destruc tion by a punitive force of the entire handit village and all the junks frightened the kidnappers to .such an extent that the entire surviving folcet now beyond reach, and considerable anxiety is felt tor me »SS ° f in h abimf of the Japanese military o round up the small group S bandits emphasises the lack of cltrof by the P authorities throughout the new state. l^ tter officer" 8 for a considerable sum i targe quantity of arm, and ammunition.J
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Press, Volume LXIX, Issue 20919, 28 July 1933, Page 11
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