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AUSTRALIAN MISSIONARY AND COMPANION HELD IN CHINESE PROVINCE. Pi’en Association—By Telegraph—Copyright February 20. (Received February 21, at' 12.30 a.m.) Through an indirect channel news has reached the British Legation that the Australian missionary, Hayman, and Bosshardt, his Swiss companion, were still in Hunan Province, where they were taken soon after their capture by (bandits at Kweichow last autumn. This is the.first word regarding the captives that has been received for some time. In addition to making strong representations to the Nanking authorities, the Legation has sent an assistant military attache (Lieutenant Millar) to Chang»ha, in order to maintain contact with the Governor at Hunan.
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Evening Star, Issue 21960, 21 February 1935, Page 9
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