Peking, Dec. 13.
The Government to-day notified the Diplomatic Body that al) the missionaries and engineers held by the Honan bandits have now been released. Advices from. Loyang indicate that the release was effect ed by General Wu Pei-fu's secret agents among the bandits who bribed smal] individual groups as the opportunity offered.
'A general punitive movement. is now expected by the 3rd Division from the north, the 20th division from the west, the Ith division from the cast and General Heiao Yao-nan's troops from the south vid the Han River. The Diplomatic Mission to Honan is cancelled.
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