CAPTURED BY BEDOUINS.

Wanganui Herald, Volume XXXXVI, Issue 13279, 19 January 1911, Page 2

CAPTURED BY BEDOUINS.

AND CONDEMNED TO DEATH. Mission Workers’ Close Call. A Timely Night Rescue. CHICAGO, January 11. A private letter received in this city gives a graphic account of the recent capture of Kerak, in Palestine, during the recent outbreak of Bedouin tribesmen. Tlie letter also narrates a thrilling experience that fell to the lot of six mission workers from Chicago. These people were encamped in Kerak at the time of the raid, and falling into the hands of the Bedouins, they were led captive into the desert. Here they underwent a sort of trial, r.nd were condemned to death. Without lilic least hope of being delivered from their terrible situation the missionaries had completely resigned themselves to their fate, and were speculating upon the way in which they would be put to death, when a tribe of friendly Bedouins swooped down in the night on their place of detention. A short, sharp fight between the friendlies and their bloodthirsty brethren ended in the rescue of all the prisoners, who were then safely escorted to Jerusalem.