RANSOM DEMANDED
FOR KIDNAPPED STUDENTS. BANDITS IN CHINESE DISTRICT. [By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright.] Received December 10, 10.25 a.m. PEKIN, Dec. 9. Throe of the kidnapped students who have been released on parole reached the college bringing the robbers’ demands for ransom. , Lifuhlin, the bandit suppression commander, ordered the delegates not to return and not to pay ransom. He_ warned tlio elders of four villages in the bandit district that lie would destroy the villages unless the students were released. Troops have been despatched thither.—A. and N.Z. cable.
Thirty-eight Chinese members of the staff and studejnts of the Canton Christian College were kidnapped from a launch flying the American flag and were taken inland.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 5
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112RANSOM DEMANDED Manawatu Standard, Volume XLIV, Issue 1188, 10 December 1924, Page 5
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