Nanking, May 15.
'The Kiangsi Provincial Government has reported to the Foreign Cfice that representatives of the Gaxcrnment are' now on their way to the Eandits' camp to secure ease of the two missionaries who have been in captivity since the end March.
Acrangements, it it reported, had! previously been made with the ban-ite that the missionaries should be alowed to go free.
The missionaries to whom reference is-made are Mr. and Mrs. Porteous. They were taken captive, together with Miss Gemmell, when the city of Yuanchow was looted on] March 27.
Miss Gemmell was released some dime ago in order to carry messages from the bandits regarding the question of ransom—Reuter.
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