Report Americans Missing In China

Northern Advocate, 9 January 1948, Page 3

Report Americans Missing In China

NEW YORK, Thur. (11 a.m.)—The Chinese garrison commander at Tsingtao reported today that Chinese Communists killed one of five United States marines who became lost on a hunting trip in this North China area on December 25.

The Tsingtao correspondent of the Associated Press, in reporting this, adds that headquarters there had reported that four marines disappeared in Communist territory on a holiday hunting trip, and a fifth, absent without leave, missing in the same area. A Chinese official said a jeep used by the party of four was abandoned beyond the Government lines. The Navy said the vehicle was looted and wrecked.

Reuters correspondent at Nanking reports that a party of four Americans en route to Hankow from Yenching are missing and are presumed to have been taken prisoners by the Communists.

The missing persons have been identified as a medical missionary. Dr Eric McMullen, of the Seventh Day Adventists Mission in Honan, and his wife and child. The fourth person is an American registered nurse, Miss Gertrude Green. The United States Embassy received a report from a Roman Catholic priest.