ATTACK BY BANDITS.
MISSIONARIES' ESCAPE IN CHINA. Nineteen missionaries, with some women and children, have arrived at Peking from the province of Honan. When they were five miles away from the town of Honanfu the party was attacked by bandits. Dr Blom, a Swedish missionary, and his wife (daughter of Dr Usher, a* Baptist minister at Tunbridge Wells) were at the head of the party when a number of men, sonic of them in uniform, opened fire on them. The bandits closed in on Dr Blom and his wife and attacked them with swords. Mrs Blom received two cuts on the head and one on the neck, while her husband was wounded in the hand, the foot, and the face. The Imperial soldiers escorting the missionaries were behind ar.d could not fire for fear of hitting their charges. The bandits stole the party's valuables and took Dr Blom as a hostage, carrying him about a mile away. They searched him again and discovered £2O in a bodybelt, The bandit leader then apologised for wounding .Mrs Blom, and handed back £2 to Dr Blom for his expenses. The missionaries were then allowed to continue their journey. Three of the bandits wero afterwards caught, one being executed and two imprisoned.
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Otago Witness, Issue 3018, 17 January 1912, Page 71
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