Martin, who has been up-river at Kienning for some weeks making strenuous endeavours to obtain the release of the two ladies, is——~turning. to Foochow.
Miss Eleanor Harrison came from Cookley, near Kiderminster, axriving in 'China in 1896, while Mise Edith Nettleton, who was originally employed ina mill at Halifax, Yorkshire, came' to China in 1908, At the beginning of July, when travelling from Chungan to ning fu, the two missionaries were captured by bandits, who detained them to look after their sick and demanded a ransom of $100,000 for their release.
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