Kidnapped Americans Still in Hands
LATTER’S LAIR BESIEGED FOR TWO MONTHS. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph—Copyright. Received Sunday, 7 p.m. PEKING, Aug. 26. Silence has sottlcd on the fate of the eight Americans kidnapped in Yuanchow, which has been besieged for two months. The bandits are pressing the town defenders, of whom there are reported to be 2000, with a year’s supply of rice, while the American author! tics are redoubling their efforts to obtain safe conduct for tho foreigners. The siege was precipitated by the bandit chief’s abortive plot to murder a visiting Government general.
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Manawatu Times, Volume LIV, Issue 7246, 28 August 1933, Page 6
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