Gen. Li Fub-lin, the bandit suppression "commander, on receiving. news of the kidnapping of the students of the Canton Chi College, promptly sent off an armed Taunch at two o'clock.on Sunday. afternoon. The party included two Americans from the College.
Three captives were released on. parole and reached the College at. four o'clock the bringing a demon bers for $300 for each of the 32 captives. This del ised to return with the money to a monastery where the captives were at noon on Sunday.
Gen. Li Fuh-lin characterized this demand for ransom as pure bluff to allow the robbers time to remove their captives to the mountains by inducing the College to delay military measures because of their fear that the bandits would carry out their threat to kill the prisoners. General Li considered this fear to be baseless. He orderced the delegates not to attempt to return and told them that it would be impossible to find the gang and that the latter had never intended them to go back.
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