CHINESE BANDITS
MADAME SUN-YAT-SEN TAKEN PRISONER. HELD TO RANSOM Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, December 20. (Received December 22, at 10 a.m.) It is reported from Shanghai that bandits kidnapped Madame Sun-Yat-Sen (wife of the President of South Cnina) at Kweiling, in Kwangsi Province, and are now holding her in the mountains and demanding £400,C00 as ransom. It is believed that the bandits disguised themselves as soldiers and seized her while she was en routo to join her husband, whoso armies are marching towards Peking. Madame Sun-Yat-Sen intended to take charge of the Red Cross work. She is one of the host educated women in China, haying graduated with honors at two American universities.—A. and N.Z. Cable.
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Evening Star, Issue 17850, 22 December 1921, Page 2
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116CHINESE BANDITS Evening Star, Issue 17850, 22 December 1921, Page 2
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