RELEASED BY BANDITS
AMERICAN MISSIONARY. CAPTIVE FOR SIX MONTHS. (United Press Assn.—Telegraph Copyright.) Pekin, October 25. Seized at the point of the revolver last April by bandits posing as patients, an American medical missionary, Nils Neilsen, has been released after more than six months’ captivity in Manchuria. Another foreigner, who had been held in Central China for two years, is now believed to have perished. The authorities state that 1000 Japanese are still in the hands of bandits.
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Southland Times, Issue 22157, 27 October 1933, Page 7
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78RELEASED BY BANDITS Southland Times, Issue 22157, 27 October 1933, Page 7
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