GGYY7E have changed our: attitude toward foreigners and are going to discriminate in future. Your country is not an imperialistic country, nor has Switzerland any unequal treaties with China, so we have decided to release you.
With these words Hsiao Keh, the Communist leader who had] captured Mr. R, A. Bosshardt and Mr, A. Hayman at Kinchow in Kweichow on October 2, 1934, informed Mr. Bosshardt that he had been set free. The Reds were as good as their word, and when they moved from the place at which they had been camped, about 125 Xi north-east of Yunnanfu, they left Mr. Bosshardt to find his own way back to his friends.
Mr, Hayman was released on November 18 last year.
Mr, Bosshardt, it is learned, is suffering slightly from pleurisy and some heart trouble, and he has been taken to the EMS. hospital in Yunnanfu for nursing and treatment. Before leaving the Communist camp, Mr. Bosshardt, the Yunnanfu correspondent of this journal states, was given a feast by Hsiao Keh and $10 towards his expenses in reaching Yunnanfu, 'The following letter giving details of My, Bosshardt's release was ceived in Shanghai on Friday from CERN, headquarters in Yunnantu:—'On Sunday the 12th, Mr. Becker's agent, Yang Chi-kueh came by bus from' Chani-cheo near Kulsing, and came to see about making connections with the Communists who seem to have loft Kweichow and to be it in Yunnan now, to try and get into touch with "Mr, Bosshardt, (Mr.
Which he put into a book he was reading, and the soldiers got hold of these. He was marched along Between soldiers to see the officer in command, who, upon questioning him, found that he was the Swiss citizen who had been captured by the Communists. After that they treated him Kindly and considerately.
"That night he slept in the PMU. house in Fu-min.
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