MISSING IN CHINA.
SEARCH FOR JOURNALIST. SYDNEY MAN'S INTENTIONS. SHANGHAI, Aug. 11. Mr. A. G. MacAllister, of Sydney, and formerly of Pine Creek, Northern Territory, will start out immediately on a hnnt for* Mr. F. Basil Riley, the Australian journalist and representative of the Times, who is missing in China. " I'll find a trace of Riley or know the reason why," he says. Mr. MacAllister is a friend of Basil Riley's father, the Archbishop of Perth, and ho intends to start from Shanghai on Friday for Honan, to begin his search. On his arrival at Shanghai a fortnight ago, Mr. MacAllister read of Riley's disappearance, and has since been making every possible inquiry about the topography of the district where he hopes to find the young journalist. He proposes to journey to Chengchow, via Hankow, where Riley was last seen, and there to pick up the necessary equipment for a two months' sojourn in the heart of China.
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New Zealand Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19720, 20 August 1927, Page 11
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