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MISSIONARIES RETURNING TO THEIR STATIONS.
DIFFICULTIES OF RECOMMENCING WORK IN THE
INTERIOR
VARYING REPORTS OF DAMAGE DONE.
With the definitely traceable feel. I pend operations frequently, Whereas ing that a reaction to Communistic labour unions and similar organiza-
WEALTHY SHANGHAI
KIDNAPPER?
SAID TO HAVE MURDERED HIS VICTIMS.
FALLS INTO POLICE TRAP,
SHANGHAI, March 10th. history of crime scarcely
Paralleled in local court annals was
related in the French Mixed Court,
when a wealthy Chinese named Li Kuzi Wow (alias Ls Her Shing), residing at 299, Bue Pere Robert,
and owner of two motor cars and Ma two motor oycles, was charged na kidnapper and murderer of his
doctrines has set in throughest tions, being composed of local Chi China, missionarica are beginning nese inhabitants whose good will it gradually to penetrats to inland is the missionary's wish to foster stations once more. The return to are showing sticking powers worthy their stations is being held up con of a better cause. Once in, and not siderably by consular authorities belonging to the transient class, the who either limit the numbers allow. unions are, according to reports, ed to return to certain districts or inclined to think they belong. refuse altogether to give their per Or the other hand, it has been time. Plaintiff in the case was Mr. Keh Chin Sung, who is a mission." On the other hand certain found by several returning evange,
accused's provinces, notably Kueichow and hats that peaceable methods can be brother of one of the
alleged victime. He was represent- Szechuan, which are reported quiet made to work. Two or three mission and peaceable inside, are practically workers who made representations ed by Mfr. d'Auxion de Ruffe, nod cut off from approach by workers to the local authorities for a portion. E. Nouveau MH. Le Gouellec who are not in the field Commu- of their old premises were allowed appeared on behalf of the accused.
According to the complaint pré- nications, however, continue to come to reinstate themselves in the midat to and from these provinces.
8. of the Farmer's Union in one place. seated before the Court, accitsed The conditions which are found in Gradually one part of the building was the bead of a band of kidnap- the stations evacuated last year after another was opened up for pers who, four years ago in Shan- make interesting recording, but as them as more workers arrived, and a near Tsinanfu, captured a the situation is a delicate one, the although the method can hardly be young railway engineer, named returning mission werkers, natural said to be a satisfactory one as far Keh Sih Sung, employed on the Shantung railway and belonging to. ly, wishing to preserve whatover as the missionarica themselves are
a well-knowa Shanghai family. vestiges of amicable relations which concerned, it is in line with their remain, available reports are not de policy of making the best of things. The kidnapped young man was held for ramrom. When news of the Prospects In the Provinces,
In many instances a pleasant sur-
Certain provinces at the present affair reached Shanghai two bro- prive is registered by the mission time emulate the peaceableness of thers of the victim rushed to Shan- aries, as regards the state of their times past, judging from other retung to attend to the ransom and evacuated property. One account ports, Chekiang for example, seems set in touch with the bandits. The sent from a western province states to be entirely opened up for mission railway adxnistration offered to that, whereas Chinese Christians aries and almost no traces of anti-ray a ransom, and as the result of
anti-British feeling re
this had previously reported a wholesale foreign or
a meeting was ... arranged be- "clearing out" of mission premises main there, Eastern Honan, on the teen the chief bandit and the two brochera-This meeting took place by various military factions under other hand, is in an uncertain state.
tailed.
no restraining influences, the facts the bruited spring offensive of the at midnight in a cemetery near were that certain furnishings Nationalists is looked upon with the Tainan. At first the bandit, identi mained Books were undisturbed, greatest misgivings by missionaries ficd by plaintiff as the accused, although pictares had been lifted who are concerned with re-entry demanded $80,000, which amount from the walls, bedding and pillows into Henan stations. Should mili was later reduced to $15,000. The made off with and all cutlery and tary activities start up again in any latter sum was paid and the bandit similar removable articles missing proportions in Honan, the inevitable agreed to release young Kel. Two Furniture, if in a bad condition, reers of looting troops and brigandage days later the corpse of the young mained, the report went on to say: is feared.
engineer was found along the tracks
When, however, the list of missing The Upper Yangtze, likewise, articles was pieced together it be offers almost lasurmountable diffoul came difficult to see just what ties to returning missionaries, and grounds the mission worker who re- penetration into Szechuan is thought ported with a fair degree of entbus. entirely unlikely until Yang Sen is iasm, had for enthusiasm. The ex- put out of the picture once and for planation, it is thought, lies in the all
The Paraistent Unions.
back One
the Shantung Hailway Death appeared to have taken place at least two days before, several ke- over wounds being found on the body.
Clever Police Work
As the result of good work on the part of local police three of the bandits in the gang were captured, two of accused's concubines having confessed the names of several of. the confederates. The three who
ties.
About a year ago a wealthy sugar merchant by the name of Chea Li Kun was kidnapped in the French
fact that every evidence is being Yunnan mission work is not given by the mission workers reto normal by a long way, also. turning to their fields to recon large missionary organization with struct what they can and regain as hospitals and schools in South China much of the lost ground as possible practically normal there as far were captured were summarily reports that Fukien stations are in a patient and peaceable way.
as numbers of missionaries are co-executed by local Shantung authori "As regards' continued occupation Reports from the various pro- of mission propertice in various vinces, north, south and weat, where places, a new aspect is aboya. A missionaries have either succeeded difficulty arises out of the fact that in returning to their work or where local unions and organizations are they have managed to remain are in possession of many places and almost unanimous in showing that Concession and hidden somewhere these factions are proving exceed the reaction against the Communis in Ward Road. The kidnappers ingly dafficult to dislodge, fur more tic phase of Nationalism has set difficult than the military would That the specious promises of got in touch with his family and have been. The transient military past months have been discredited | obtained $8,000 on the promise of occupants proved destructive, as in nearly all classes of Chinese releasing Chen, The" kidnapper only a Chinese brigand-soldier can society, is the general opinion of. be, but the military commander missionaries when questioned on this man, however, disapp .com charge could be persuaded to sus subject.-N.-C. Daily News,
pletely, and was not heard of again
According to the complaint, how- CONDITIONS IN KIUKIANG,| fectly friendly it is rather uncom-ever, a coolic who had been in the fortable. As a matter of fact this service of accused had a disagree- spirit of friendliness is one which
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deserves comme The civilians ment with him and made off with here have always been friendly, but a motor-cycle belonging to accused en the troops appear to delight in and in a fit of rage pawned it. In- watching the play of the children
the and in general appear to view the Testigations followed and presence of the foreigner in e mach assistance of members of Kel The plague of flies which cameed more tolerant manner
family a trap was discomfort right up to December The Kiukiang Club is flourishing disappeared with the cold weather exceedingly in cuite of the recent identify accused, We now have a plague of rate, a demand of the Chances adthorities tracted by the Buh which is allowed that it should be handed to the under to do about ron, the forcahore.
on the grounds that it was public Nothing is safe from them property. The rights of property A certain amount of perturbation appear to be very vaguely under WE caused by the news that there stood in this part of the world were tiron cases of amallpox in a
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