WAR IN CHINA.

Grey River Argus, 13 October 1926, Page 5

WAR IN CHINA.

FATE OF WUCHANG. Position at Hankow. PEKIN, October 11. Wuch ;!.” j ( .g e was apparently raised by tr< ~.y from within, a portion O,P ■■ secretly admitting prisoners of the der and other generals, flooding Hankow mar•'‘‘on paper money, causing ' panicky. tations, the anniat Hankow, sk-ar.y.-, passed quietly, du a ......--jrv suppression. r :'.’ur>:d missionary, x ; Yencieeng from < vho succeeded bandits, who • . . .sand dollars, and hundred revoiver? for his release. I Davies v<.,- with 20 others, .vt ;ir -. .■ ' A was release-d -.aTm-’vr. of sixteen A MIS3IONAP-7 FLIGHT. The “Daily Er,• Sbanghai correspondent states: “A message, scribbled on scraps of paper, received from Freeman Davies state that the bandits demand a ransom of five thousand sterling, with one hundred revolvers. They threaten his immediate death if the ransom is not forthcoming. Davies is said to be in a pitiable plight, being confined to a.room with twenty Chinese captives in a bandit stronghold thirty miles from Yiengching. He sleeps ou thfloor, ha< only coarse native food to eat. and suffers from extreme cold.