From the beginning and through out the captivity the Mission authorities were determined not to pay the ransom to establish dangerous precedent. The Chinese authorities were then ready to send troops to the place where the Come munists held the Father. The capture then developed into not} only a possibility of the priest doing put to death by his captors, but algo Into a danger of over 20 villages being infested with troops. The latter concerned all the inhabitants of the district and 30 the! question of saving the place from disturbance by soldiers became more urgent than the question of getting the captured Father out of the Communists? hands.
It was duc to this situation that it was possible for Father Con-laughton to get the people interested in Father Kreutzen's case and do all they could to secure his! release, The assurance was made to the Reds that, if they would set the: priest free' the government troops would not invade their place. Father Ulrich was. Iberated and safely brought back to Tayeh. stated that only a couple of hundred of dollars were paid as "wine money' to the bandits.
The Father's Story Father Ulich related. yesterday hire his experiences with la. Com Imunist captors. He" was taken From his chapel at. Weiyaankow at 8 o'clock on the morning of Nover= her 0) when a gang of about 900 Gonsmonists, alarmed with torches fad. guna, attacked and looted the towne They walked" into" Father Uivisk's mlaslon, seized "him and marched "him. immediately to a {mall town called. Tawangtien.
The Chinese servant of the priest was also taken britoner. TTawangtlen, the Father was forced fo write a" Totter to his Mission Hondquasters at Wachang saying that fe had been captured and that Hin captors sere demanding the Summ of $10,000" og ransom which must be paid. within four days. Ths Letter was given tothe Chinese fervent to bring back to. Hankow. When the Red© bandits set th! Chinese boy free, they intimated to fin that Yo he came back. within four days with the money he would he treated as thet friend ud that Father Uitich would. be released also, bu, in ease he faite to return, the priest would be tortured and possibly killed.
'After being placed under watch for several hours in the Communist headquarters at Tawangtion, Father Ulich was' then taken to" Chiang Kiang Shan where he yeas Reld for four days. "Prom this place he was marched to Lockengan and taken up toa mountain there, He. was li. Drisoned ina emall, dilapidated Buddhist temple on the top of the Rpounai, being dosly guarded li tine Vigilant Watch According to Father Kreutzen's own story, he was neither tortured hor ill eated during. his captivity except that he was ong eat except some sold ice was not allowed to see any" mes. senger from his Mission and of all
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