STRANDED FOREIGNERS.
NAVAL PARTY TO RESCUE,
SHANGHAI, Feb. 18. Lieutenant - Commander Stafford, commander of the British gunboat Ladybird, and Lieutenant-Commander Jeffs, commander of the United States gunboat Oahu, left Kiukiang to-day to evacuate 80 British ami American missionaries and patients stranded in a sanatorium at the top of Ruling Mountain, 3500 ft. high. 'The rescue party will travel 2o miles on foot to Ruling, /hich is surrounded by Chinese, against whom the Japanese intend to launch an offensive after the evacuation of the stranded inmates of the sanatorium. Both sides have offered the naval party a safe conduct.
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Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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98STRANDED FOREIGNERS. Manawatu Standard, Volume LIX, Issue 70, 20 February 1939, Page 7
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