Bandits Include $5,000,000 and Artillery in Terms Mukden, June 21, Preposterous ransom demands have been made by the captors of Father Joseph Burns, the American Roman Catholic missionary who was seized by bandits near Tunghua, east of Mukden, on February 5. According to a loiter, written in Chinese and signed by Father Burns, brought in to-day by a messenger," the bandits want, among other things, $5,000,000 and artillery.
Negotiations for the release of the priest are proceeding, but the latest demands of the bandits offer little encouragement.
Father Burns at present is held captive in an almost impregnable fortress on a mountain peak in south eastern Manchuria, "Steep paths made dificult by melting snow are the only approaches to the fortress, which, held by an unknown number of bandits, is immune from a surprise attack—Reuter,
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