A BESIEGED CITY
BANDITS SURROUND MISSIONARIES. NO NEWS FROM PRISONERS. Press Association—By Telegraph—Copyright. PEKING, June 15. The city of Kui-lin has been closely besieged for over three months. Twenty British and American missionaries are there. It is reported that the population is in the last stages of famine. No news has been received from the missionaries. The Foreign Office states that four missionaries wore captured when trying to roach Kui-lin from Wu-cbow. They started against official advice, and walked open-eyed into the bandits lair.—Sydney Sun Cable.
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Otago Daily Times, Issue 19200, 17 June 1924, Page 7
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