Rey, C. A, Bridgman Taken at Changshow Peking, Apr, 15.
Bandits have captured the Canadian missionary, the Rev. C. Bridgman, of the Foreign Alission mittee of the United Church of Canada, and a Chinese pastor at Changshow, on the Yangtze, 60 miles below Chungking.
The bandits, who retired inland with their captives, are demandinse a ransom of $200,000, British Consul at Ichang is representations to the Chi nese authorities to secure the spec release of the captive The Rev. C. A. the "Peking and Tientsin The Manchurian leaders are not to be blamed for their attitude (of neutrality). Previous incursions within the Great Wall have invariably ended"in heavy ex-Tense, and eventual disaster, And Manchuria can. prosper best by avoiding any intramural entanglements. "The fact remains, however, that the hoisting of the' blue and achite flag over Manchuria, was a resture whose significance was very foch-exaggerated in Nanking. It hes merely enabled Mukden to transfer to the Central Government diplomatic problems which it would have been embarrassing to settle on the "spot, without involving Man-
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