Hankow, Apr. 6.
'A message from Changsha states that Mrs, Glazier and Miss Rugs, two of the China Inland Missionaries who escaped capture during the recent attack by bandits on Yuanchow, arrived at Changsha from. Pinghsiang by train this afternoon.
The bandits on the occasion of the attack on Yuanchow took Mr. and Mrs. Porteots and, Miss Gem-ell prisoners.
Mr, Glazier, who was the third missionary who escaped, is still at Pinghsiang waiting orders from the Mission Headquarters at Shang. hai.
The missions in the parts of Kiangsi, which are considered unsafe, are now being evacuated and the missionaries are arriving at} Kiukiang.—Reuter.
'A telegram has been received] from Changsha that Miss Gemmell, and Bir. and Mfrs. Porteous, the mi sionaries. who were captured _bs brigands on March 27 from Yuarchaw in the Kiangsi Province, are being held for a ransom of $20,009] leach.
Tt is thought that Mr, and Mrs. R. H, Glazier and Miss G. Rugg, who escaped capture because they Jwere preaching on the outskirts of ithe town at the time, are hiding in the same neighbourhood.
A letter has been received in Shanghai from the pastor of Yuan-Jehow, in Kiangsi province. It had been reported that the pastor was brutally murdered during the raid of brigands upon the town on March 23, at which time Mr. and Mrs, R. W. Porteous and Miss N.
E, Gimmell' were taken captive, He reports that the city of Yuanchow that night by the Mr. and Mrs. Porteous [and Miss Gemmell were hiding in a private house but were discover ed at daylight by the bandits, They were brought to the "Middle School" and detained as captives. 'A ransom of $20,000 each was demanded.
The Christians in Yuanchow agreed to give $6,000 and made every effort to secure their tele but were unsuccessful. They lected among themselves a over a hundred dollars which they handed over to the brigands. On: March 26 the "Red Army" left the: city, openly taking Mr. and M Porteous and Miss Gemmell with, them to Anfuh-hsien. The mission premises in Yuanchow have been. cleaned out, leaving only the bare walls, Mr. and Mrs, Glixier and Miss Rugg were at the outskirts of the caped being captured. "They themselves after the raid and later Mrs, Glazier and Miss Rugg went. to Changsha, where it is thought: they will be safe. Mr. Glazier, for: the present, is waiting at Ping-siang.
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