MANY CAPTIVES
EUROPEANS IN CHINA RESIDUE EFFORT FAILS (United Press Association—By Electric Telegraph Copyright.) SHANGHAI, Dee, 3. Troops are leaving Paota-Dhen. in an attempt to rescue Mrs H. D. Hayward and Miss E. Gomersal to-day. Foreign missionaries captured end un.released in China now total 24. Government troops are fighting Communist's ait Honan in. an attempt to! rescue Mr Nelson., an' American, and! iMr Tvcdt, a Swede. 'They were defeated, and oinissia'ries to the OoiUmnnasr camp were not allowed to return.
Mrs -Hayward and Miss Gamcrsial ivviere ■Stripped and l robbed while on a 'journey by river. Later they wero taken from their Ibamdit captors- by Mongols.
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Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 5
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106MANY CAPTIVES Hawera Star, Volume L, 4 December 1930, Page 5
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