Some amazing information has come to hand regarding the recent capture by bandits and subsequent eleseo of Dr. Thompson and Father van Pract, the story being, told in a letter received by Mir. A. de ©. Sowerby from the Trans Asia Photo Seiontifio Expedition, At Paotov, where Dr. Thompson was captured, the expedition Into touch with Father van Pract, the priest: recently released after having been captured by bandits ahoub 240 li south of Kueihuacheng. Father van Pract wan taken into hho Ordos Desoit and kept at the headquarters of the Northern Ordos Mongols, tho} band who held him prisoner being composed of mon o# this tribe, with a sprinkling Of Chinese, He had a terrible experience before he was released, for the bandits marily executed many of their Chinese britoners and_he had to witness the shocking of 40 of them.
The terms enforced for the relearn" of Fother van Pract laded the enrolment of the chid the district and 260 of hig mon in the Chinese army. Another remarkable and really Judicrous fact, was that the ransom for Father van Prast's Chinese bodyguard wae paid Which apparently valued beyond money. The ban-dite are said. to be mounted on excellent horses and" are well acmed with Mavser rifles and pistols. The money raised for the release of Dr. Them is aid to have been retained by the bodyguard.
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