BANDITS’ DEMANDS.
PAYMENT OF RANSOMS. ENDANGERING FOREIGNERS. The possibility of a serious outcome of the offer to ransom the two Britons who were recently released by bandits at Newohwang, Manchuria, was pointed out in a letter received in Hamilton this morning from a resident of Hangchow, China, who previously lived in Newchwang. “ China is- now no place for Europeans,” states the letter. “ Especially after the fool offer of £IO,OOO by the Daily Mail, news of which reached us two days ago, for - the release of the kidnapped pair at Newchwang. These people, it is stated, were, repeatedly, warned not to take long rides from town.
“ However, this Incident may teach the easily gulled and mawkishly sentimental inhabitants of Great Britain and the United States of America, of the real state of affairs in the country. Oh, the ignorant, blind asses I This offer will make the sojourn of all foreigners in the land a hundred times more precarious, and make kidnapping them a nourishing business.”
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Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18776, 26 October 1932, Page 8
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165BANDITS’ DEMANDS. Waikato Times, Volume 112, Issue 18776, 26 October 1932, Page 8
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