RESCUE ATTEMPTS

Taranaki Daily News, 26 November 1934, Page 7

RESCUE ATTEMPTS

MISSIONARIES STILL CAPTIVE.

EFFORTS TO TRACE THEM FAILS.

By Telegraph—Press Assn. —Copyright. Shanghai, Nov. 21. All efforts to rescue the New Zealand missionary Mr. A. Hayman, and the Swiss, M. Bosshardt, have proved abortive, despite further representations by the British authorities to Nanking. The Government is declared to have ordered provincial officials to expedite the work, but the Communist captors have not been traced. They were last reported heading toward Szechwan. Nine women who were captured in October have been released for the purpose of conveying demands for ransom of £20,000 for the restoration of the two men. On October 9 the capture by Communists of three foreign missionaries belonging to the China Inland Mission stationed at Kiuchow, also known as Lao-hua-ping, was reported. They were Mr. Hayman, formerly of Auckland, M. Bosshardt, a Swiss, and Miss Gemblen, an American. Mr„ na.vipan.was bom in Ceylon 47

years ago, the son of Mr. J. E. Hayman, and came to Auckland with his parents at an early age. He was educated al the Auckland Grammar School, and trained in Adelaide for missionary work. He left Australia in 1913 to join the Chins Inland Mission, and has laboured there ever since. He married Miss Ruth Matheson, of Sydney, who accompanied him to New Zealand on furlough in 1923. Soon after his return to China, however his wife died, and he later married Misi Rhoda Johnston, England. Mr. Hayman.' mother lives at Mount Eden, Auckland.