OUTRAGE IN CHINA.
MISSIONARIES CARRIED OFF BY BANDITS. FATE OF CAPTIVES UNKNOWN. SHANGHAI, March 30. United Press Association.—By Aiecu‘i» Telesrranh. —Couyricrht The same bandit gang'which captured and murdered three Finnish women missionaries recently is reported to have captured three others at Yuanchow, west of Kiangsi. The local offices of the China Inland Mission are in receipt of a message stating that brigands descended on the town and carried off Mr. and Mrs Porteous (British); Miss N. E. Gemmell (American). Two other women and a man managed to escape. The fate of the captives is unknown, but grave fears are entertained in view of. the brigand band’s previous history.
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Wairarapa Age, 1 April 1930, Page 2
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