SEIZED BY BANDITS
Two Women in China STRIPPED AND ROBBED Shanghai, November 30. Mrs. H. D. Hayward, an American, and Miss Egomersal, a British nurse, left Vim Station, LanchOW, at the end Of October for Peking. Mts. Hayward, who was critically ill, was seeding a surgical operation. Last week, when twenty miles from Patoa-Chen, and while travelling on rafts, bandits captured and robbed the t -en and stripped them of theif clothing. The Women are still in captivity. The weather is freezing, Other missionaries are attempting a rescue. A relief party leaves Peking to-morrow seeking the captive ladles. The party is composed of Messrs. Find* lay and Andrews, famine workers. Lieutenant Kanagu, Of the United States Navy, and Captain Staples, of the British Navy.
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Dominion, Volume 24, Issue 58, 2 December 1930, Page 11
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