OUTRAGE IN CHINA.

Wairarapa Age, 7 August 1930, Page 5

OUTRAGE IN CHINA.

LADY MISSIONARY’S FINGERS CUT OFF. BARBAROUS DEED OF CHINESE COMMUNISTS. DEMAND FOR HUGE RANSOM. United Press Association.—By Electric Telegraph.—Copyright. SHANGHAI, August 5. On account of the very real Communistic menace existing in China, missionaries have been ordered to make immediate preparations to evacuate the interior stations. Recently Communist troops captured two missionaries, Misses Nettleton and Harrison, cut off the former’s fingers of one hand, and sent them to the Church Missionary Society, demanding a huge ransom. SOCIETY POWERLESS. APPEAL TO LOCAL AUTHORITIES. (Received Wednesday, 7.5 p.m.) LONDON, August 5. “It is impossible for the Church Missionary Society to pay the ransoms Chinese bandits demand,” said the Rev. W. Cash, secretary of the society, referring to bandits cutting, off the fingers of Miss Nettleton. “If we began to pay up, probably a hundred missionaries would be captured within a Week.” A Foreign Office official says: “We have already made numerous appeals to the local authorities for troops with which to rescue Misses Nettleton and Harrison. Further urgent representations for swift action, securing immediate release, are being taken.”