Another Missionary Captured and Held to Ransom: Payment of $10,000 Demanded Another has to be added to the list of outrages on foreigners perpetrated by the brigands in China. On this occasion Hunan has been the scene of the affair," and the captured missionary is Mr. F. Strauss, of the Liebenzel-" ler Mission, an organization' which works in association with' the China Inland Mission in th province mentioned. eae News of this fresh outrage. reached the China Inland Mission in Shanghai by letter on Wednes-: day. The writer of the letter is the superintendent of the Mission, Mr. Heinrich Witt, who in the course of his communication, dated Changsha,, October 25, says:—
"There is a matter of grave importance, namely, that according' to news received to-night Mr. Strauss of Wukang, who had paid a visit to Hunkiang, on his way back, only 602i off Hung-kiang, has been taken by robbers. on October' 17.
"A telegram informing us at once of this sad fact has not reached us. Only on October 22 we received a telegram:—'Where-' abouts unknown, endeavours 0. far fruitless. Witt.' This we! did not understand and finally telegraphed back for the name of. the person in question, as all our guessing was of no avail. Before any telegraphic answer, a post-~ card arrived to-day, written on the 18th, right after my brother got the news, "Mr. Strauss considered the road perfectly safe, as he himself had come that way, and then his. boy had been back to his station and had returned without the least danger being visible. He left Hungkiang on the 18th and was taken on the following morn—ing by about 100 robbers, with. whom were four deserters belonging to a troop of Kueichow soldiers. His chair was left behind, whilst he and his boy had to follow them. After another 20 li the boy was sent back to Hungkiang with a' message from Mr. Strauss saying that they wanted more than $10,000. He. himself was kept in perfect peace, as he himself testifies in his mes sage, whilst his boy wept most of the time. Mr. Hollenweger and my brother went at once to see the Military Commander or. the. man acting for him. They hoped to get the release effected through the officer of those soldiers -who fiimself was under arrest for their desertion. But the telegram mentioned above which.-we received on the 22nd shows that neither the officials nor. our friends at Hungkiang have been able to.effect anything."
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