Haggard and sore of body but ill happy and cheerful, Father ford King, the American Catholic priest who spent nearly two weeks in bandit airs in Honan and underwent some harrowing experiences at the hands of his captors, has returned to his mission at Loshan, quiet city 35 miles east of Sinyangchow on the Peking-Hankow Railway.
Pather-King-was-rescued-by -Chinese Government infantry and cavalry troops who made a successful attack on the brigands, which described by the captured mis-jon ary himself "would have been' spectacular enough to be incorporate ed bodily in a Wild West film, with the only difference that it was enacted in real life, with the of human beings hanging in the seales."
In a graphic account by Father King himself, it is revealed that the priest during his captivity was repeatedly threatened with being shot or beheaded and was bound with eyes bandaged when he was taken from village to village. On the first day of the march from the Catholic jon at Loshan to the bandit headquarters in the mountains, Father King says, the bandits shot off their pistols' repeatedly from behind their prisoners sending their bullets whizzling by their ears, but the workers in the fields placidly kept on cutting their wheat, the captives' plight being of no moment for them.
Father King was captured and held for ransom, the brigands hoping to get a colossal fortune out of the deal. At one time the priest was asked to pay $8,000,000. This amount was reduced to $800,000 duet examinations in Dr. Sun's chings. And these men even visited kindergartens and lower primary schools to carry out their duties! How on earth is it possible for children of seven or eight, or even ten, to have a knowledge of the Three People's Principles and understand them when their elders do not understand them?, Surely, such inspectors would be doing much more good for China if they devoted themselves to encouraging the phonetic script or giving lectures on personal hygiene, public sanitation and civics.
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