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THE
HONGKONG
TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 1931.
NARROW ESCAPE OF MISSIONARY.
REV. OLDFIELD TELLS OF BANDIT RAID.
HOUSEBOAT LOOTED.
In the following article the Rev. W. H. Oldfield, Chairman of thei Christion and Missionary Alliance. tells of his experiances at the hands of bandite on his recent trip through the northern sections of the province of Kwangal
distance we could not tell whether they were robbors or ordinary workmen. However we took pre- cautions and steered our bont a Hittle neurer to the farther bank. We were now within easy calling distance of the men, and they began to walk out on the rocky bank towards the water's edge and presently they called to us to pull respond they opened fire.
airendy passed this point and was running ahead to give the alarm.
I was careful not to make the grase move, and he could not aca Just where I was and to fire into the rushes at randoms would both waste his ammunition, and also sound an alarm and possibly bring people to
rescue. The robber thorofare wasted
ngboro, and when we did not to appear and anxiously for me
trot
A Run for Life.
running
A Race With a Robber,
even more
anxiously for him to disappear., Alter guarding the point for tun or fifteen minutes he slowly with- drew and returned to his com- panions.
Looting the Luggage.
weru. were
all
Meanwhile the first bontman a company of soldiers that mict had recently escorted boats up the river and were now returning. When these learned what Wa taking place they quickened their footsteps and as soon as they came within shooting distance they began to fire at random. Myt It
The bontmen acted courageous-} ly. They ignored the shots and the danger. and quickly rowed toward the farther bank. As soon as the boat reached the shore The robbers, hitherto scattered, they sprank out and telling me to somewhat, now gathered together Mr. Oldfield anys: I had spent come quickly they started to run on the shore opposite our littlo six weeks touring the northern back in the direction from which boat and presently one of them section of the procl
province visiting the we had come. I followed thiom waded into the stream and swam mandarin stations; had travelled and the crack of robber by lunch, bus, chair, native craft me ignore the rules of guns made across. The rubber took our boat
to back to whore the others and on fool for
thou Take nearly two
it easy on the start." sand miles through districts that former
My My boxca, auitcase, etc.. experiences
being
ing carried on shore · to insure for South China, were compara robbed and kidnapped and taught
quicker
• quiet d
Bearch for things the tively
The last meeting had been held and I was now on me that much is gained by a good robbers wanted, and then
on start at the very beginning joined together in ransacking the my way back to Wuchow, The t
Three small shing craft were in contents walle looked on with native boat on which t Was the vicinity, but when they heard feelings of regret. travelling was a very small one, the firing and saw the race begin Just an ordinary punt with on Improvised
covering of hambon, they sought a cooler climate and as fast na mutting to keep out the sun by out of the way
I was in my stocking possible. day and the dew by night. I was feet and running on the rough and the only passenger and two boat uneven pathway was very painful, men and myself made up the party. but while i started third in the
We were journeying down the race I soon took second place. beautiful Cassla river, river of note, "Where every
prospect
Rounded good! was the busE pleases and only man is
Two rolders were following soothing to the nerves and com. music I had heard for years, This is the river where, a few running, atons: the bank on the years ago, Messrs. Jaffray, Miller, apposite side of the river. Soon Corting to both heart and brain! Ray and Carne were travelling
This unexpected and timely arrival when killnapped
stopped running, but and -where.
the head robber kept his pace with their work and quickly picking up with of help hastened the rubbers in among whose adjacent mountains, bulldog
tenneily cursing as ho ran3. Mr. Carne was held prisoner for The stream was so shallow that the things they wanted they forly two days until his release in many places the water was but started on the run up the gorge was secured by a
a fellow mis-kuce deep, and could be
and back among the hills while sióntry. This also is the river forded and is the robber reached the soldiers fired another volley where later Miss Tobin of the Church Missionary Society
ne of these shallow places and after them to give them a
good WAS rot nerons ahead of us our fate start just as the robbers had doue robbed und kidnapped. The would be sealed.
It would be too to us when the first race began. journey therefore was not without
Picking Up What Robbers Left. its unpleasantness in the experiring to try and fight with an
The soldiers then, lined up on mai. It was therefore as enre of the writer, and naturaliy much as our freedom was worth this side of the river while the afforded thrills as we anticipated #lacken our speed
16
or let the the trip.
robber get ahead. I was running cra
craft. What a sight! Every- A Danger Zone.
disadvantage. The thing had been ransacked, Iriside The Arst day of the journey path on my side of the river ran the bont and out on the shore were passed without incident. and En
in and out and up and down while thrown in wild confusion the bright and early the following the side on which the robber was thing
things which the robbers did not morning the journey was resumed, racing was comparatively level. I want. Both the bontmen and I We were now entering a lonely was doing is best, but the end losses was a nice down comforter lost considerably and among my stretch of the river where the of thirst were becoming acute
แก่ atream W218 much less than a my tongue was cleaving to the roof which I had used for yours and stone's throw wide, and hemmed of my mouth, but I quickly lapped which had done its best to keep in by bare mountains running upp suma water from a trickling me warm during many a cold night almost abruptly from
the river stream that ran across the path as I have travelled throughout the bank. On one side a narrow foot and continued the race, but at a province. 1 felt as if I had lost path skirted the river ranging from lower puce.
warm friend, My good com- Afty to one hundred feet above Armed Robber Holds the Pathway, forter had gone-gone to keep the water's edge. In places this The robber WOR now slowly warm a értel robber. To-night
one of these
at a
decided
casilye
boatmen and I went across to aur
path was partly hidden by graas taining ground and presently he his cold nose instead of mine and reeds while at other sections where the river was exceptionally
made a spurt, reached a point sticks out from ita fleecy
while I it was perfectly exposed to view,
aliver
the AB in Here and there upon the hillsides narrow and rocka jutted out into Four nights of travel on an open weru settlers shacks long since The stream. Here he ran out to bont in the middle of November deserted. These hacks were now the edge of the water, levelled his was not pleasant to contemplate. delapitated and bare, but afforded run on a boulder for
or a steady aim. but the robbers had left me most splendid hiding places for robbers and with a savage threut defled of my clothing and these were put who roamed among the hills. me to pass. I saw it could not on inyer after layer until the
be done and did not think it wise supply
exhausted Whe to expose myself for target prac-much better than to be a captive although I slept cold still it was fee and on hands and knees I
A Timely Warning.
મ
and
It was nearly noon when we met a large company of soldiers walk-crawled, panting in Amonk among the hills with all the hard- ing upstream and as we passed clump of reeds where I could not ships and suffering which kid- them the last man, evidently
EL he clearly seen and yet where I napping entails. petty oflicer, called to us to be could both see the racing robber careful and keep to the east side and the other robbers further of the
river when passing Yoh- down the stream. Mah gorge one half mile farther riner
stream
Painful Waiting.
Coming shortly to the. CENTRAL
The greatest picture ever made.
ANN HARDING
down
robbers had recently been operating near that My
turned alternately gaze point, and had both robbed and from one to the other. If the kidnapped people a few days robbers below crossed the river previously. The river was very and started up stream while their narrow and exceedingly shallow in man guarded the path desperate places and we necessarily had to risks would have to be taken or keep pretty well to the centre of would be kidnapped. The boat- the stream.
We kept our eyes man in the rear had dropped out open, however, and presently, a of the race, and was hiding some- short distance ahead, we saw men where in the long grass, but for on the river bank, though in the tunately the first boatman had 'A RKO-PATHE SUPER SPECIAL
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