Foochow, Oct. 11.
In connection with the murder of Miss Eleanor Harrison and Miss Edith Nettleton, it sppesrs that two) go-betweens left Kienning on September 23. for the Communists' camp. While one of the go-betweens was detained by the Comnjunists, the other was sent back to Kienning with a letter written by the Communists, in which they stated that they had the power to take foreigners, to hold them, to ransom them and to Kill them, In his report the go-between states that information regarding the beheading of the ladies had been given him by the villagers of Shangmei, who had seen evidences of their grim death. As far as wai known, the bodies of the ladies were still on top of the fill where the decapitation had taken place, 'The report adds that the heads of the ladies were taken to the Com ts' headquarters at Shangmel, from the hill-top.
ial intention to send the heads to Kienning, the Communists found impracticable—Reuter,
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