A most remarkable development of the bandit outrage at Kayingchow weeks ago, when Messrs. Ernest she and G. Kilpper, German missionaries, and E. Walter, a Swiss colleague, were carried off by a aiding party, reported by the Basel Mission at Kaying, states the "Hongkong Telegraph'
After weeks of anxiety owing to the silence of the kidnappers, a letter has ben delivered to the Missio written by Chen Tai-huan, the mander-in-Chief" of the bandits, conveying a demand for the payment of §2,000,000 as a ransom, threatening to kill the captives in the event of the money not being forthcoming, and suggesting thst Hong-Kong be made the rendezvous for the payment of the ransom, The bandit chief suggests that a notice be inserted in certain Chinese newspapers in Hongkong, giving an address where the "full-power" re~ presentative of the outlaws can call for the money.
'"Eenat W, Fischlo, E. Walter and Kilpper, the three clerks, are now safely staying with our Board of Military Affairs, We know they have written you and their family people a letter, and that you will have perhaps received it, "Now, because disorder and uneasiness reign over every place, 80 that communication is difficult, it is quite impossible for you to consult with us about the matter, Therefore we have to promise that you and we should send. a whole-power, repre sentative to go to Hongkong, so that we two sides may see each other, talk about the question and solve it. Our attitude towards this question has never been and will never be changed, no matter, whatever.terror is made upon us. Furthermore, you will in vain depend upon the strength and greatness of your native government to order the Canton government to, compress or frighten us to aet the three clerks re candidly and earnestly tell you that the Canton Government has, no way to get them free from our hands except that they do their best to raise the money we demand from you and, in one way or another pay us, no matter, however, able it (the Canton government) may be.
__Bseape Impossible "ad you should believe what we have just said above, Emnest Fische, Walter and G." Kilpper, even though they had wings, could not fee away from the trap we have set upon them, We shall soon remove to another place, and so cannot let them, the three desks, be with us too jong. On one hand we urge them to write you to believe them, fon the other we herewith send you letter by which what we want you flo for the lives of your prisoned friends is, that you" should pay $2,000,000". as. soon as possible. Otherwise wwe cannot But put them to death.
"From the 20th instant, please send your whole-power representa tive to Hongkong with the money have mentioned. There he will re-ister mote on a Chinese news Paper, telling us his address. Then we shall send our whole-power repre entative to him. The mote must heed be in the newspapers as long as one month, within which period, wwe, of course have our representative look for, and talk about the matter with yours.
"Our whole-power representative, Mr. Chen Ping, you should politely entertain, and protect him from trouble. "This you should com-Dletely be responsible of."
Victims' Appeal At the same time, the Mission received a letter from the captives, stating that on the night before it. was written they were marched across country to a new Jair, and urging that every effort should be made to obtain the ransom money demanded. If the money does not come shortly into the hands of the bandit leader, the letter adds, "we shall be in the greatest danger."
Text read from the printed page and cleaned; old type leaves the occasional error.